Waylaid

(I just happened to be trying on a Minnie Mouse headband when we got waylaid, which is why I've got that silly thing on my head.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

I mean thieves en grand, such as waylaid him and stripped him on English highroads. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I mean thieves en grand, such as waylaid him and stripped him on ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

Any qualms that I had about, "Oh, it's a remake or it's too soon," were kind of waylaid by the fact that I thought I could do something fun with the movie and get a chance to do a comedy, so both things kind of evened themselves out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Sunday Times often prints letters from disgruntled citizens complaining about how they were 'waylaid' by plain-clothes so-called 'green ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

So after a fortnight's search, waylaid by whispers, clouded memories and dead-ends, we have photographic proof of King Olav at Selhurst Park. ❋ Unknown (2011)

— Barges nearly two football fields long, piled high with coal, float smoothly down the lower Monongahela River here — until they reach the 75-year-old Charleroi Locks and Dam, where many get waylaid at the gate. ❋ Jennifer Levitz (2011)

This week, more than 50 Roumieh inmates were waylaid with food poisoning and several more complained of being denied medical attention. ❋ Patrick Galey (2011)

I never told anyone what had happened, but the way this incident changed me was fundamental: I no longer had the luxury of feeling like I was safe when an unknown man waylaid me on the street. ❋ Mandy Van Deven (2011)

His group was waylaid by a bunch of skeletons and he asked me to get the band's instruments back. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the craft issues never waylaid me againI’d graduated. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He gets waylaid by ideas in his moments between places, as he walks among laboratory buildings or, as a passenger aboard an airplane, flies from one city to another. ❋ Robert Lee Hotz (2011)

Every President since HST who tried to reform medical care has been waylaid by the same error: the failure to recognize that uncoordinated and unevaluated clinical decisions by specialist physicians have been and remain the principal cause of skyrocketing health care expenditures – with no end in sight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I tried to leave a good comment, but was waylaid by a seizure induced by your photo. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Every President since HST who tried to reform medical care has been waylaid by the same error: the failure to recognize that uncoordinated and unevaluated clinical decisions by specialist physicians has been and remains the principal cause of skyrocketing health care expenditures – with no end in sight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cameroon's government now believes 13 members of its government have been abducted by militants and possibly waylaid to neighboring Nigeria, where kidnappings for ransom are a normal activity in the Nigerian oil delta. ❋ Unknown (2011)

My peripatetic traveling future was waylaid—by you, my firstborn child. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)

First he described the march from Fort Cumberland to the Monongahela, saying that the only casualties were occasional stragglers waylaid by Indians. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

Matt: "Yo [Lindsay Lohan] really let herself go......." Joe: "Haha i know. Waylaid." Or [Beth]:"Omg i [studied] for that test all night and i STILL failed." Nicole:"Waylaid." ❋ Rowland Polanski (2013)

BOSS: "Steve why are you 3 minutes late? what's your excuse this time?" STEVE: "[Sorry Boss], my girlfriend [waylaid] me this morning. Can't turn that down!" BOSS: "Quickie sex with your super hot girlfriend should not be as high a priority in your life as running my shit errands and kissing my ass. [You're Fired]" ❋ FantinoBoy (2010)

Dude [sorry I] am late [for breakfast], but I got [waylaid] last night. ❋ Cbreader (2008)

"She got [waylaid] last night just so she could take [maternity leave] [in a few] months." ❋ Retrotron (2009)