decoy
Example Sentences
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But no country has pushed the balloon frontier further than Ukraine, which is using them to execute audacious strikes deep inside Russia, as well as for reconnaissance and transportation, and as decoys.
He hit superb lines, either hitting the ball up bravely into the heart of Wales defence or acting as a decoy, and worked instinctively with Northampton team-mate Fraser Dingwall inside him at 12.
From BBC
“But those things, the window and the matches, those are decoys.”
From Literature
The venues are like decoys, real estate ventures that would find a way no matter the acts or genre, it turns out.
From Los Angeles Times
From there, he scrambled two convoys as decoys, then drove to the nearby coast as an Emirati drone kept watch overhead.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
