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.)

SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

I mean thieves en grand, such as waylaid him and stripped him on English highroads.

The Virginians 2006

I mean thieves en grand, such as waylaid him and stripped him on

The Virginians 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.

ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories 2010

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

timesofmalta.com 2009

And the craft issues never waylaid me againI’d graduated.

A Conversation with Diane Hammond 2010

— 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.

Old Locks Jam River Traffic Jennifer Levitz 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: 'Hey, Shorty!': Ending Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces Mandy Van Deven 2011

I tried to leave a good comment, but was waylaid by a seizure induced by your photo.

The Dyda Dispatches 2009

My peripatetic traveling future was waylaid—by you, my firstborn child.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011