How to Use bait in a Sentence

bait

1 of 2 verb

• The interviewer kept baiting the politician by asking him whether he was lying.
• The heads are often painted to match the skirts, and the hooks vary from bait to bait in size and shape.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 12 Oct. 2023
• Small squid in beam of light, seems to have no lights, went down to bait. Cyclothones.
  — Brad Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
• There’s also an 11-footer that can toss plugs and bait up to 5 ounces.
  — Alberto Knie, Field & Stream, 22 June 2023
• Hunters in New Hampshire are allowed to bait bears from Sept. 1 through Sept. 28.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• The two lines were each baited, one further out into the gulf than the other.
  — Irene Wright The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 3 July 2023
• Or is the mandate at Max to focus on broad appeal fare and not awards bait?
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2024
• As in most lakes of this type, both current and bait schools are likely to be key to success.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 23 Dec. 2020
• In the meantime, Team Trump is trying to bait DeSantis with a lot of hooks.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
• The movie wrapped up filming earlier this year and has awards bait all over it.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 Sep. 2022
• Many of the young anglers came into the session not knowing how to bait a hook or cast a line.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Apr. 2021
• The bullish Moss baits the hook and reels the weaker man in, planting the idea and prompting further inquiry.
  — Jason Bailey, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• Once baited and ready to use, hang the trap outside near a fly source like garbage or compost pile.
  — Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
• This is one of the main ways that scammers will bait you to landing on phishing websites.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2023
• All that bait milling around on the surface makes an easy target for the bass—and for anglers who are trying to fool them.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 2 May 2021
• But, all of that does bait Darlene into punching Wendy and that right hook could lose her Zeke.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• The rigs are baited with minnows, crayfish and leeches and worked in the current under a float.
  — cleveland, 7 May 2020
• Their clothes are not just aspirational, but also bait — to catch the right fish.
  — Tilly Lawless, refinery29.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Off the beach, kings and Spanish continue to chase bait to the surface within a mile of the beach as well as up to 10 miles offshore.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 10 Sep. 2021
• In fact, race-baiting propaganda pre-dates the Cold War.
  — Fortune, 18 Dec. 2019
• That’s because the researchers had placed olfactory bait around the area.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Aug. 2022
• Early in the fishing season, bait catches more fish than lures.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2021
• The pressure to bait and pull pots or lines and handle nets can be unrelenting.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2021
• Most bait the crab traps with squid; some use salmon carcasses saved from the past summer’s fishing.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 11 Nov. 2020
• As Curry ignored Porter’s efforts to bait him, Curry’s teammates had a sense of what was to come.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2022
• The scene's flipped for everything from the signature antique dealers to bait shops, too.
  — Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• The bulls know exactly where the riders are at all times and even bait them into making mistakes.
  — Dennis Rudner, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2021
• On the Hunt For a while, zoo workers tried to lure Flaco back using traps baited with dead rats, but he was unmoved.
  — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• For these experiments, the boxes were modified to test falcons with talons and sharp beaks, and baited with a piece of raw red meat.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• So they were baited into performing a silly little dancey-dance to MacLeod’s royalty-free, sick-ass jams.
  — Vulture, 7 Jan. 2024

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bait

2 of 2 noun

• Wait until the fish takes the bait.
• The bait zebras — and the rest of the herd — were nowhere in sight.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• The bait is in the water, but the client is not biting.
  — Hod Fleishman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Use the lighter 30-pound braid with baits like Senkos and Speed Worms.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
• Taking the bait, the former Dean Street boy flips to the first page.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• In the middle of it is a pod of tulkun being used as bait by the RDA.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
• The officers in West Palm Beach had been trained not to take the bait.
  — Danielle Paquette, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
• These 11-inch pliers give you the reach to get those deep-hooked baits.
  — Allen Foster, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
• My only gripe with this bait is the quality of the hooks.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023
• Once the bait-and-switch came to light, Apple removed them.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2023
• Traps that use bait will attract more flies due to the strong-smelling bait drawing all the insects in the area to the trap.
  — Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
• Typical ant baits will kill the worker ants and leave the queen to pump out more.
  — Lucy Warren, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• There’s also the Willoughby Lake Store which sells bait, food, and drinks.
  — Deb Hopewell, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2023
• To many Americans, the boosters came as a bait-and-switch.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
• Powell watched through the screen as the fish nosed down on her soft plastic bait and then turned away.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
• In this case, the bait caused a stir in the sharks, similar to how catnip riles up felines.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
• No stone has been left unturned in the click-bait coverage.
  — Akanksha Singh, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
• Mike Leach is more to take the bait and talk about officiating in the SEC.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 17 Nov. 2022
• This 7-inch Senko is a larger take on the original bait.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
• They’ve also been known to steal bait right off an angler’s hook.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2023
• According to Black, gel baits are the best roach killer option.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
• But police were convinced that Leon had taken the bait.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2024
• In some instances, the dolphins watched the crab fishers hook bait onto their pots.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
• Or are the Rams showcasing him as new, improved trade bait?
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2022
• The bait trap may be slightly more difficult to add bait to since it is covered.
  — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2023
• Instead, Gabler used himself as live bait and dug a six-inch moat around his body.
  — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 17 Feb. 2023
• The fishermen used a piece of carp for bait, cast it out into the river and waited for fish to bite.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
• The project members were collecting traps around the park to see if any rats had taken their bait.
  — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
• That was the value of Maine's menhaden fishery last year, the bait fishermen use to catch lobster.
  — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• As far as the delivery options anglers have to choose from, Walmart’s two main live bait offerings are nightcrawlers and red worms.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024