lead astray
Example Sentences
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Is he a once-legitimate conservative journalist lead astray by the sensational nature of TV punditry?
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2019
I find new victims every day as I go blithely roaming; a million feet I lead astray between the dawn and gloaming.
From Rippling Rhymes by Mason, Walt
These alone will supply water, food, and camels, and lead astray the pursuit.
From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
When evil increases so among many, it spreads to many more, for in all evil there is a lust to lead astray, in some burning with anger against goodness—hence a contagion of evil.
From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.
In passing through this vale of tears, That various scenes display; Ambition oft her standard rears, And mortals lead astray.
From An Elogy to the Memory of the late Wm. Palgrave, Esq. with Other Pieces by Parkerson, James
