Example Sentences

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Cost of equipment and wages has gone up; motor cars have decoyed passengers and, by crowding thoroughfares, have increased cost of running cars.

From Time Magazine Archive

You have decoyed your blue-blooded boy with his well-manicured hands and his unmanicured brain, your matchless horseman, fencer, marksman, tennis player, heart-trifler—Marlitt could not have invented him more revolting than he actually is.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

How could they have decoyed him down there?

From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Who knows how many young men you have decoyed to their doom by your smiles.

From Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind by Harbaugh, Thomas Chalmers

The British, however, led by the Nantuckois, whom they have decoyed into their service, have begun this fishery.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson