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

Barkin said that the Fed will need to "walk a fine line" as it navigates between doing too much and doing too little, and that regardless any external shock has the potential to waylay policy.

From Reuters • Nov. 9, 2023

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is worried that the COVID-19 crisis might waylay his plans to increase the military budget.

From Slate • May 5, 2020

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

What he felt was the chilly recklessness that had come to waylay his heart.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson