waylaid

Example Sentences

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‘Hamilton’ Waylaid for more than a year by the pandemic, a touring production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical is running once again at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2021

Through street and square, through square and street, Each with his home-grown quality of dark And violated silence, loud and fleet, Waylaid by a merry ghost at every lamp, The hansom wheels and plunges. 

From The Song of the Sword and Other Verses by Henley, William Ernest

Hunger and hardship, penury and pain Waylaid his youth and wrestled for his life.

From Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings by Schauffler, Robert Haven

Waylaid at every corner, and plied with numberless questions, he had hardly found an opportunity to come home to dinner, and now he had no time to waste in love-making.

From Ethelyn's Mistake by Holmes, Mary Jane

Waylaid him in the wood, abstracted the letter, and carried it to the lawyer.

From For The Admiral by Marx, W.J.