How to Use waylay in a Sentence

waylay

verb

• We were waylaid by a group of kids with water balloons.
• Gangs sometimes waylay travelers on that road.
• This is not the first time the state GOP has tried to waylay Issue 1.
  — Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
• The court battles have waylaid efforts to sell the pearl.
  — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• Back surgery a year ago, and knee surgery the season before that, almost waylaid his hopes for the 2018 Olympics.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 8 Feb. 2018
• The team spent 17 days on board, but much of the work was waylaid by bureaucratic red tape.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
• Long-term bonds stick around furhter into the future, when bad stuff can waylay them.
  — Larry Light, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• The chances are that a plan will be waylaid or must adapt to the situation at hand as things unfurl.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• If, and when, drones fill the sky, there will inevitably be those who attempt to waylay or damage them.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2016
• Those 80-mph wind gusts waylaid air travel and could have aided Denver in the process.
  — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 6 May 2024
• That cartoon homage to Asia was waylaid further by a beef patty too thin and dry.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Wolves were the creatures, lurking in the shadows outside town, who might waylay or harm us.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
• Or maybe there were rogue cells already coursing through my rollish veins that might waylay me down the road?
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Nov. 2022
• When the mob recently waylaid the truck in front of him, Del Pino rolled up his cab windows and locked the doors in fear the hungry mob would turn on him next.
  — Time, 30 Jan. 2018
• Her journey, the text portended, might have been waylaid early on by a ring of fire.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Jan. 2020
• The parade came back last year after waylaying the parade for two years.
  — Hank Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
• Injuries waylaid Chris Watt, a guard-center drafted out of Notre Dame in 2014.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Children emerge armed from their houses and bands of revelers gather on the sides of the roads ready to waylay passersby.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2022
• The heavily armed men who waylaid the three on a street identified themselves as cops.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Jury duty in the Senate waylaid three of the top contenders for most of the final two weeks before the caucuses.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2020
• The closest tugboat that could handle a job of that size was 200 miles north in Astoria and was waylaid by weather.
  — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
• Joey Bosa’s eight-season tenure with the Chargers has been waylaid by injuries the past two years – groin surgery in 2022; toe fracture and foot sprain last year.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
• For a teenager who showed so much promise, Purdy was often waylaid by bad luck.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
• What might be done to waylay any further evidence of linkages?
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 29 Nov. 2018
• Red is better for bats and insects but can waylay migrating birds.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
• In Stapleton's songs, whiskey, lust, music and the lure of the road loom as infernal demons that waylay many an earnest seeker of peace and happiness.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 5 July 2017
• Across the country, artists, playwrights, dancers and authors are grappling with seeing their projects waylaid, many of which took months or years to realize.
  — Max Lakin, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• Plans for apartments, Caltrans District 3 offices and mixed-use plans all came and went, waylaid by the high cost of renovation.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 3 July 2024
• Ten minutes into my visit, a boy waylaid the museum staffer who was showing me around.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Feb. 2023
• The film’s theatrical release was waylaid by the pandemic, but Dafoe was widely praised for his performance by those who saw it.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024