How To Use waylay In A Sentence
- Greenpeace managed to assemble enough boats to waylay the ship at sea.
- Presently it opened and disclosed fifty horsemen, gathered together to waylay merchants on the highway, and their captain, by name Kahrdash, was a lion in daring and dash; a furious lion who layeth knights flat as carpets in battle-crash. — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Does John Footman, when he asks permission to go and spend the evening with some friends, pass his time in thuggee; waylay and strangle an old gentleman, or two; let himself into your house, with the house-key of course, and appear as usual with the shaving-water when you ring your bell in the morning? Roundabout Papers
- Like Solzhenitsyn said, if the people lay in wait under staircases with sticks and kitchen knives to waylay the Cheka when they came at night, rather than hiding in their own apartments, they could have made it too costly for the Soviets to imprison and murder so many millions. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Whither Private Property
- So, it appears all they did was to go and waylay the man.
- Normally around this time they would be making plans to waylay some unsuspecting super with the hope of getting their cards signed. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
- The replayed showed that no one pushed Ott. He's a person and just waylayed Cumiskey into Andy. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
- She followed the man and was about to waylay him when he suddenly stopped.
- With dark eyes peeping out from beneath her black shawl, she would happily waylay any child or adult who wandered past.
- Horatio Chapple, an aspiring medical student from the exsclusive Britain, died Friday morning after the bear waylayed the tent he slept in with his friends on a glacier in BBC reported. NY Daily News
