Sentence examples for be a decoy from from inspiring English sources

Saturday eastern time, the Pentagon would fire a 63-foot rocket with the mock warhead and a deflated Mylar balloon, to be a decoy, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., 125 miles north of Los Angeles.

This is a decoy to distract attention from all the other honours, and devilishly effective.

Mulder initially believes that Druce's truck is a decoy meant to distract him from the UFO, but discovers that Deep Throat's photo is a fake.

However, it then transpired that the security operation was a decoy to divert the loyalists away from the back of the station.

Thus 'decoy' in 'decoy duck' is an alienans adjective: from the fact that a thing is a decoy duck one cannot infer that it is a duck in the way in which one can infer from the fact that a thing is a male duck that it is a duck.

It's a decoy".

But that was a decoy.

But it was a decoy.

The foot story was a decoy.

The obvious one was a decoy".

But the language is a decoy.