Luring device

Usage examples of decoy.

Taking the floor in protest, Adams called Sullivan a decoy duck sent to seduce Congress into renunciation of independence.

Later in the afternoon, RFK and Barnett seemed to work out a tentative agreement for a decoy plan: Meredith would register quietly at Jackson on Monday while Barnett and Johnson were at Oxford standing heroically at the entrance to the university.

AMERICAN INSURRECTION Soon after the game, the cheers still ringing in his ears, Barnett phoned Robert Kennedy and called off the decoy plan.

It was a long pull from the Beallach to the stream, but there were tributary ravines where the cover was good--always presuming that Palliser-Yeates had decoyed away the navvy guard.

Convinced someone was determined to halt the space station program by the Orion explosion and subsequent attack on the Brazilian ISS facility, the Russian and American defenders of the Cosmodrome would repel the decoy strike force at the east gate and congratulate themselves on having saved the launch vehicle .

He approached Doodlebug and Daphne warily, as though he were a john caught between desire for sex and suspicion the two women staring at him might really be vice-squad decoys.

A small force of Mosquitoes would carry out a decoy raid on Frankfurt to divert German attention from the Ludwigshafen operation.

There had been the apparent deliberate decoying of enemy Masai warriors to their deaths in the explosion and by the other flaming package.

Resolved to reconcile Monimia to life, before she would again recommend Ferdinand to her love, she endeavoured to amuse her imagination, by recounting the occasional incidents of the day, hoping gradually to decoy her attention to those sublunary objects from which it had been industriously weaned.

He soothed himself with the prospect of a happy reconciliation with the divine Monimia, and his fancy was decoyed from every disagreeable presage by the entertaining conversation of his sister, with whom in two days he set out for Presburg, attended by his friend the Major, who had never quitted him since their meeting at Brussels.

The first had been decoyed and the other one appeared to have passed the noisemakers and was gradually closing in a stern chase.

Florida dove and fired first noisemakers to mask his ship, then simulated decoys to attract homing torpedos away from her.

The first had been decoyed and the other one appeared to have passed the noisemakers and was gradually closing in a stem chase.

A pod of K-ships coms shrieking with fake traffic, decoys flaring off in several dimensions flipped themselves down the Redline gravitational alley along a trajectory designed for maximum unpredictability.

First of all, there is at least one unconfirmed CIA report that indicates that Saddam tried to use BW against coalition forces--an air strike involving three MiG-21s as decoys and an Su-22 fitted with a spray tank to spray coalition forces with a biological agent.