Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: waylaid
IPA transcription: [w'eɪl,eɪd]
Usage examples
  • With this Henriette retired and the next morning on her way to early church I waylaid Norah.
  • Suffice it that to disguise themselves they had to take the clothes of two peasants, whom they waylaid in a wood.
  • He waylaid the nieces once or twice, and tried to secure from them a verification of his somber suspicions, which they mischievously fostered.
  • Then, with such patience as I could command, I collected a quantity of fruit, and waylaid and killed two rabbits with my last three cartridges.