Example Sentences

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Complete strangers have been waylaying me in the lobby.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have been waylaying Mr. Prattleton as he came out of college, wanting to hear more than my mother could tell me.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry