Exempel på decoy

• When a driver sees a patrol car, they don't know if it's a real police officer or if it's a decoy.

• They used a girl hitch-hiker as the decoy to get him to stop.

• The officer arrested a bike thief after planting "decoy" bikes around the city.

• The spinning decoys try to mimic the flashing of a bird's wings, luring waterfowl toward the decoy.

• Flares are canisters of magnesium that burst into very bright, very hot flame to decoy infrared receivers away from the plane.

• They would try to decoy the enemy towards some of the hidden groups, where they would be outnumbered.

• The plan is that Marie decoys the victim into a position that will give Bobbie plenty of time to take aim.

• Cats often pretend to sleep to decoy their prey, then suddenly spring on it.

• He decoyed the pheasants by leaving peas.

• These decoy recordings were judged by the pre-test group to sound both "straight" and "masculine," and were used to keep the target recordings non-adjacent.

• Is it economic to cultivate the decoy plant as a pest control measure compared to existing alternatives?

• Further, we determined the decoy effects on endogenous gene expression.

• Why does a plant act as a decoy for an insect?

• They find it very hard to tell friend from foe, real targets from decoys, objectives that are worth combating from every kind of clutter.

• The other involved the employment of decoy female elephants to entice wild males.

• Trials for control of ixodid ticks using pheromoneacaricide tick decoys.

• All of the males were dead, presumably as a result of the lengthy exposure to the acaricide-emitting decoys.

• They passed base coin and acted as decoys for their partners.

• Attracted to the treated animals, the ticks formed aggregations on the animal body adjacent to, or near, the decoys, acquired lethal doses of the acaricides and died.

• These local transients acted as decoys and made it likely that attention would be attracted to an incorrect location instead of going to the true change location.

• The decoy recordings, which were kept constant throughout, were samples of the same passage, this time read by two additional people, also otherwise unrelated to the project.

• Kerb-crawlers looking for a good time chatted up the attractive decoy and were promptly arrested.

• It is the woman who decoys away for ever the girl who assists her when she faints.

• Thirdly, the use of nets for taking wild duck in a duck decoy is illegal except for those already in use.