Sentence examples for decoy of from inspiring English sources
The phrase "decoy of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is commonly used to describe someone or something that is used to lure or distract from the real target. For example: - The hunters set up a decoy of a female deer to attract the male deer. - The spy used a decoy of himself to deceive the enemy and escape undetected. - The politician used his charming personality as a decoy to hide his corrupt actions.
Then Suad made a decoy of herself and ran loudly in the opposite direction, making sure that the janjaweed saw her.
It came from a corner kick as two Irish defenders were drawn away from the near post by the decoy of Federico Balzaretti.
Their first goal came from a corner kick to which two Irish defenders were drawn away from the near post by the decoy of Federico Balzaretti.
Nathan Hale, Eugene O'Neill, the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan, and a decoy of a broadbill duck are among the Connecticut-based subjects depicted on United States postage stamps.
His bulk also makes him impressive as a ball-carrier, but he seems to have been using himself more as a decoy of late, prepared to give more passes than take the ball into contact.
It is not that he is being lured by another woman -- though we are invited to believe he could have his pick -- but that he has been distracted by what Crouch elsewhere calls "the decoy of race".
In the all-isoforms test, each control consists in a group of decoy isoforms of the interacting protein, each one made from one of the real alternative transcripts.
NOYES MUSEUM OF ART "A Humble Art: Decoy Carving and Decoys of the Mid-Atlantic".
"A Humble Art: Decoy Carving and Decoys of the Mid-Atlantic".
Hard hats sit atop the cubicles occupied by the petroleum technicians, while decoys of wild ducks and other birds are displayed by the wildlife biologists.
In an e-mail, Swinton told me, "Tony places at the centre of a scene an unsaid maybe unsayable thing and then sets his characters dancing around it: some beating a path towards it, others flashing up decoys of distraction".
