Sentence examples for decoy a from inspiring English sources

"This whole business about religion is just a decoy, a smokescreen," said Ali Dayan Hasan of Human Rights Watch.

We had only three guns, and so I carried the decoy, a brown plastic hen with galvanized-steel legs.

In "Decoy," a man with a failing heart longs for a deeper connection with a beloved, mythologized town physician.

The decoy, a young man in a blue sweatshirt with a Mets cap underneath the hood, was buried so deep in the crowd that I almost missed him.

The poem makes us suspect that appearance is a decoy, a tenderness trap fashioned to trick mothers, with lust and hunger driving the entire illusion.

"Stripped-down" is a crazy description for "Prism" — a good interview decoy, a good term to use when you're telling your audience that you're making progress.

But his only role Monday came as a decoy on a fake punt.

Leaving the hospital on crutches, Landis employed a decoy, placing a large splint on his healthy right ankle.

A decoy is a supposedly inactive, computationally engineered [19] or randomly chosen [8] molecule.

They even used his as a decoy in a plot to spring Frank Thee Mad Axeman' Mitchell from Dartmoor prison.

Indeed, the addition of a decoy caused a shift in preference only when the decoy exhibited the intermediate expression of the trait less preferred initially.