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
The existence, too, of paid professionals who lead astray silly women, encourages the natural scientific contempt for the study of the faculty.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
It continuously manifests itself through unreal and false forms, which delude and lead astray ignorant man.
From India, Its Life and Thought by Jones, John P. (John Peter)
Hence the Erinnyes reply to the strange notions of Apollo: Thou didst lead astray Those primal goddesses with draughts of wine, O'erturning ordinance.
From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel
Clif had first met him trying to lead astray an American officer who had been sent with dispatches for Gomez.
From A Prisoner of Morro In the Hands of the Enemy by Sinclair, Upton
