The ones who made the wild-goose chase last night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satan Bug]

He has been leading us on a wild-goose chase all day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference

I'm on what I'm pretty certain is a wild-goose chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The Roses]

"I wonder if we aren't on a wild-goose chase," said Roy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol] Reference

And now we learn it was all a wild-goose chase, David Katz.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006] Reference

'It is perfectly idiotic to go on with this wild-goose chase.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

"What if I am off on a wild-goose chase?" she said to herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics] Reference

Could it be that after all they had been on a wild-goose chase?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol] Reference

On top of all that, this whole thing might be a wild-goose chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

"We wanted him to direct us, else we would go on a wild-goose chase.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I still wasn't convinced this was anything other than a wild-goose chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four To Score]

Was it possible that he was wrong after all, and this was a wild-goose chase?.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Laughing Matter]

They also lead to wild-goose chases rather than bringing terrorists to justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Follow These Two] Reference

Trix's visit began to appear to her somewhat in the light of a wild-goose chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

"You'd like some supper, I make no doubt, after your wild-goose chase," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

There was no wild-goose chase this time after golden cities that could not be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

If it had not been for her, Tabitha would never have gone on such a wild-goose chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

"You wish very much to try this wild-goose plan!" she said, resuming the conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse] Reference

So we joggled down Broadway in the 'bus, on what looked rather like a wild-goose chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

I don't want any relation of mine getting mixed up in any such a crazy, wild-goose chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buffalo Roost] Reference

Coronado seemed to the people of the time to have led a costly army on a wild-goose chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introductory American History] Reference

The hurriedly written telegram, or his hasty reading of it, had led him a wild-goose chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference

"I am sorry to have caused you this wild-goose chase," said a meek voice from the back seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Little Brown House] Reference

The girl began to feel that she had come far enough in what appeared to be a wild-goose chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference

That Atlantic City thing was a big phony wild-goose chase to keep us away from Point Pleasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four To Score]

Neocon Rumsfeld jumped on story which resulted in two wild-goose chases and bypassed US intel.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Spurious attempt to tie Iran, Iraq to nuclear arms plot bypassed U.S. intelligence channels] Reference

"It's a wild-goose chase, I know," he concluded; "but then you may manage to turn up something.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short Line War] Reference

Among the rocks, I found a great bird, whether a wild-goose, a loon, or an albatross, I scarcely know.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference

"If you tell me to I s'pose I must, but I think it's a wild-goose chase anyhow," was the disapproving answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference

"It's not alone Dr. King who believes they've gone off on some wild-goose chase," continued Miss Alice presently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference

I confess I have been on many wild-goose chases in my somewhat long and varied career, but this takes the gingerbread.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pirate of Parts] Reference

"And I say," exclaimed some one in English, "that I am not going to stay out here all night on such a wild-goose chase.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference

O'Neil just now, we've all had enough and to spare of that vessel and the wild-goose chase she has led us from first to last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference

So, if you are young and enthusiastic, and not to be deterred by a series of wild-goose chases, happy indeed will be your lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

"It may be a wild-goose chase, but I can't give it up," he muttered as he continued his search by walking along the river bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma] Reference

The loss of valuable time incurred by a wild-goose chase after Steele was most annoying, but I was hopeful it might be recovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

In another minute he'd be on his way to a strange sun and a strange world, on what might well be the wild-goose chase of all time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colors of Space] Reference