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How to use decoy in a sentence

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Kevin made a sharp bank left and popped flares to decoy any incoming missiles.
Since 1972, decoy traps baited with seeds and live cowbirds have been set out across the warbler's breeding grounds.
Use any pitfall, deadfall, snare, catch, trap, net, exposed salt or minerals, live decoy, or baited hook.
The propriety of the behaviour of the spy or decoy in so doing varies from one category to another.
Using the foot peg, the base is driven into the mud in a shallow area, such that the duck decoy flies conspicuously above the water.
The decoy bird must be provided with adequate food, water, shelter and a perch for the entire period during which it is used.
The net was being controlled by someone in a nearby hut who was able to pull the string to make the decoy attract other birds.
When threatened, the octopus can squirt out ink as a decoy to distract its predator and allowing the octopus to escape.
Your Majesty, though a large force has been assembled in the South, it is but a decoy, to lure us away from our target.
So, unless the unlikely happened and they split up, the dot he was heading towards was a decoy and possibly a trap.
They realize it is a she-wolf who is acting as a decoy to lure the dogs away from camp so that they can be eaten by the wolf pack.
That whole wing of the base was nothing but an elaborate decoy designed to trap invaders.
Don't be shy about running sideways to avoid or decoy the defensive pressure before passing.
What they'll try to do is either decoy us or create a diversion, something to get us to respond, to move out of the area where they want to go.
The decoys are controlled over a serial data link to decoy passive and active homing torpedoes.
The other major advance will include systems designed to decoy anti-tank missiles.
I was told last night that this storyboarded ending was only ever used to decoy the studio away from the real ending, which is the one they shot.
Pioneered in the air war against the country's neighbour, these drones were designed to decoy air defences and save the lives of pilots.
We were overhead in a matter of minutes and, though we had no bullets or rockets, we flew a daisy chain over the area to decoy the enemy fire.
The defensive aids suite could include a radar warner, missile launch and approach warner, and chaff and flare decoy dispensers.
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I am to decoy the young thing away by making her believe as I'm her husband, eh?
Send a big flight of Messerschmitts in after my squadron contacts the decoy bombers and have them start a dogfight.
If they mean any treachery, such as a decoy and ambuscado, why, by my conscience!
In confinement it is treated like the missel thrush, but it is generally only kept as a decoy bird.
Some syllogisms are fallacious as a decoy watermelon stuffed with Paris green.
The favorite rumor was that the entire firm was a decoy to bewilder agents of foreign powers and pre-empt their espionage efforts.
I want you, besides, to act as a decoy in a case I have already told you of.
About sundown he took in his decoy Hen, as Owls were abundant, and went back to his camp.
The comparison of the mind to a block of wax, or to a decoy of birds, is found wanting.
One of the Indians then stationed himself as a decoy, and howled like a wolf.
One morning as he was hobbling through the streets he met his old enemy prowling to see if she could find anyone to decoy.
Then another decoy will bob up, and Blake will go after that.
And in this trap of Iblis was decoy enough for a poor mouse like me.
The system unites the Scutter torpedo decoy developed by Rafael with the BAE Systems Mk 2 Acoustic Device Countermeasure.
In a town, he thought every second person a decoy, and every third house a place in which seamen would be drugged and murdered.
An electro-acoustic towed decoy system, Nixie can communicate with its host ship's network for a fully integrated defense capability.
Who set you on as decoy and temptress, and what reward did you receive?
A few steps onward brought me to a promontory on the shore, and revealed the brown archways of the decoy on the opposite bank.
Printed on both sides of the decoy is a high-definition image of such animals as whitetails, antelope, elk, moose, turkeys, coyotes, and jackrabbits.
Allen Crabbe became a decoy and Justin Cobbs played the hero.
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