BAIT in a Sentence

Learn BAIT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

26 example sentences for BAIT, such as:

1. He used maggots as live bait.
2. A trap was laid, with fresh bait.
3. They were digging up worms to use for bait.
4. We put down some poisoned bait to kill the rats.
5. The results shows that the trap was skillfully baited.

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 Meanings and Examples of BAIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bait
 v.  harass; tease; lure, entice, or entrap
Classic Sentence:
1  If we have no other way of catching him, we can always bait our line with the ring.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  There seemed to be no alternative but to catch him red-handed, and to do so we had to use Sir Henry, alone and apparently unprotected, as a bait.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
3  That angular shadow up yonder was the bait, and we were the hunters.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
4  When Jeff arrived, Tom accosted him; and "led up" warily to opportunities for remark about Becky, but the giddy lad never could see the bait.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  The Widow Douglas' splendid hospitality was a tempting bait.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Well, then," interrupted Bunger, "give him your left arm for bait to get the right.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
8  Whoever hesitates for a second perhaps allows the bait to escape which during that exact second fortune held out to him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
9  Her voice prejudices her hearers in her favor; her beauty serves as a bait to her victims; her body even pays what she promises--I must do her that justice.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
10  So, when they stopped to bait the horse, and ate and drank and enjoyed themselves, I could touch nothing that they touched, but kept my fast unbroken.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
11  Scarlett was not sure what an aeon was, but there was no mistaking the baiting quality of his voice, so she said nothing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Frequently she flared into open wrath under his expert baiting, for she had Gerald's Irish temper along with the deceptive sweetness of face she had inherited from Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  "If it costs me a husband, I'll tell the truth," she thought grimly, her blood up as always when he baited her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
14  The results shows that the trap was skillfully baited.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
15  Having baited the horses twice on the way, he arrived at the town toward evening on the fourth of August.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  They were digging up worms to use for bait.
2  It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
3  There are plenty of fish in the river, and good baits on my line, but the fish are getting clever and refuse to rise to the bait today.
4  A trap was laid, with fresh bait.
5  We put down some poisoned bait to kill the rats.
6  He used maggots as live bait.
7  The school bully will bait the smaller children, terrorizing them.
8  If a title is the bait, then the subtitle is the hook and line that will draw the reader into your document.
9  The real challenge here for the Obama campaign will be to avoid taking the bait, and let McCain squander his one asset.
10  I always try to liken a bait pile to everyone in your town sharing the same fork at every meal.
11  Every few seconds the bait fish were flying out of the water from attacks by predatory fish.