How To Use Wild-goose chase In A Sentence

But when my poor mother heard that I was committed, by word of honour, to a wild-goose chase, among the rebels, after that runagate Tom Faggus, she simply stared, and would not believe it. Lorna Doone
And yesterday, she had chided Helena for wasting a holiday and setting off on a wild-goose chase. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
No, he led me on a wild-goose chase.
It must have been, to send you out on what might have been a wild-goose chase ," said Emerson. LION IN THE VALLEY
Fortunately André had the good sense to call me once he realized you'd sent him on a wild-goose chase. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'

It must have been, to send you out on what might have been a wild-goose chase ," said Emerson. LION IN THE VALLEY
The last remarkable corruption is in the introduction of a curious piece of stage-machinery, ycleped a confidant, who, loving her mistress more than herself, like a good servant, accompanies her through wind and rain, and every other stage-horror, in a dark night, on a wild-goose chase, without any adequate or apparent object. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
Billed as a true story (which it isn't), this Coen brothers masterpiece set in motion a wild-goose chase for a stash of cash buried near a highway in North Dakota.
Fortunately André had the good sense to call me once he realized you'd sent him on a wild-goose chase. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
And yesterday, she had chided Helena for wasting a holiday and setting off on a wild-goose chase. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Tshwete should also explain in detail ‘how many resources were swallowed up by what was always a wild-goose chase’.