Sentence examples for decoy to from inspiring English sources

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

On 85 minutes, Baird used Berbatov as a decoy to stab home John Arne Riise's delivery.

They also produce a cloud of ink as a decoy to help them escape.

She said today she now believed he was using her as a decoy to conceal his real affair.

They would arrange for a decoy to appear at an apartment window and signal his wish to jump.

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

She explained why in her roman à clef: "She thought of Anne Moffitt" — her pseudonym for Millett — "as a decoy, to deflect the klieg light".

He wanted to carry it around with him as a decoy to fool the customs people who always used to stop and search him for drugs".

It is not interested in selling the entrée; the fish is there as a decoy to make other, more profitable items appear attractive.

A decoy to keep us distracted for a while.

Besides, sex-determining gene (Sry) circRNA could also function as a decoy to absorb miR-138 (Hansen et al., 2013).