false trail
Example Sentences
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The All Blacks on that day did not think their way through the problem – they did not use Jonah as a lure to take his pursuers down a false trail.
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2015
The motorcade had also been something of a feint, and Main Street something of a false trail.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2012
In the novel, Pinkie's mob lay a false trail of these cards after Hale's death to create an alibi, and worry that Rose will remember that someone other than Hale placed the one she found.
From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2011
To confuse and elude the men who were trailing me, I made numerous appointments with important government officials on my home telephone, which I knew was tapped, and laid a false trail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Francis looked for numbers on the mailboxes, nosing into one false trail after another and backing out again, cursing, grinding the gears.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
