waylay

Example Sentences

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Most projects take years to complete, hindered by the pendulum swings of available money, so Brewster tempers her frustration at having to waylay them mid-planning until she can find enough cash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Those carriers argue that additional long-distance flights at Reagan National would cause passenger delays and might even waylay the F.A.A.’s reauthorization.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2023

But SNAs, at only billionths of a meter across, seem able to travel anywhere in the body and get inside cells before immune defenses can waylay them.

From Nature • Dec. 3, 2019

Your duties may involve delivering checks to vendors, organizing groomsmen to waylay belligerent uncles, and stopping the Electric Slide before it starts.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2013

For me, there was no real element of surprise in this ruthless truth, and so it didn’t waylay me.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger