Examples of death trap in a Sentence
That old elevator is a death trap.
The factory was a death trap with too few exits for the workers to use in case of a fire.
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This is all the work of a pharmaceutical company attempting to accelerate lifelong drug trials by spiking guests' drinks with medication and then sending them to the sandy death trap to observe what happens.
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Megan McCluskey, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
There is no other reason for families to pay thousands of euros for room on a floating death trap rather than a few hundred euros for seats on a short and convenient flight.
—Dimi Reider, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2015
The natural world is no friend, either: in one of the film’s most wrenching scenes, a swamp in a Polish forest becomes a death trap.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 June 2024
Arthur and Mordred’s forces are in this death trap because Mordred, the result of an incestuous affair between Arthur and his shape-shifting sister Morgana Le Fay, wants his father’s crown.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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Megan McCluskey, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
There is no other reason for families to pay thousands of euros for room on a floating death trap rather than a few hundred euros for seats on a short and convenient flight.
—Dimi Reider, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2015
The natural world is no friend, either: in one of the film’s most wrenching scenes, a swamp in a Polish forest becomes a death trap.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 June 2024
Arthur and Mordred’s forces are in this death trap because Mordred, the result of an incestuous affair between Arthur and his shape-shifting sister Morgana Le Fay, wants his father’s crown.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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“Death trap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20trap. Accessed 27 Sep. 2024.
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