How to Use death trap in a Sentence

death trap

noun

• The factory was a death trap with too few exits for the workers to use in case of a fire.
• That old elevator is a death trap.
• The road that nearly hurled Tiger Woods to his death Tuesday has been a speed and death trap for decades.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2021
• Hussain was accused of putting the victims in a death trap.
  — NBC News, 3 Sep. 2021
• Abandoned crab traps have been found to become death traps for more than two-dozen species of fish.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2018
• When winds changed the fire’s direction, the resort town of Mati became a death trap.
  — Nektaria Stamouli, WSJ, 27 July 2018
• The prehistoric black ooze that still seeps from the ground was a sticky death trap for the massive mammals that once roamed here.
  — CBS News, 22 Mar. 2018
• For old-school, high-church surfers, the search for a hundred-foot wave can seem like a marketing conceit, not to mention a death trap.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• The franchise has gone from a golden destination for quarterbacks to a death trap in the eyes of the public.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Nov. 2022
• Many sheltered in place, terrified that their own home could become a death trap.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• The harnesses meant to keep the passengers safe on the doors-off helicopter flight had turned into death traps.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
• Even if the other crew members did not get off the boat, and went to their deaths trapped in the boat, Sowden's team doesn't expect to excavate enough to find anything.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• As rescue workers brought the last of those trapped in the car to safety on Tuesday, relief that their lifeline had not become a death trap washed over the village.
  — Salman Masood, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• On Wednesday night, the apartment turned into a death trap as water gushed into his unit and quickly overwhelmed him.
  — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• That assumption holds the key to understanding why the terrain off Ninety-Nine 90 has become such a death trap.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
• Combat has Souls, not soul Then there's combat, which only comes in two flavors: wimpy peons, or Dark Souls-caliber death traps.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2019
• Every dive is fraught with peril, every constricted chamber in the vast subterranean maze could turn out to be a death trap.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• Keep reading here, as Ed explains the science behind the glowworms’ beauty—which, for insects, conceals a death trap.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Police stations and mansions half-collapsed, turned into death traps and filled with monsters.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020
• Eight people famous for being famous go on a sketchy reality show that turns out to be a death trap with millions of viewers.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2021
• The evil, mocking cunning of this virus is to have rendered all those temples of delight and enlightenment potential death traps.
  — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 22 Mar. 2020
• And in 2018, a prominent ultra-Orthodox journalist called it a death trap.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• The region’s once reliable sources of water have turned into death traps for animals desperate to reach the muddy ponds.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• The lithe and agile Spitfire responded instantly and Tuck narrowly avoided the death trap.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2021
• DeSantis’ determination to stop mask mandates in schools is a death trap.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• Eager to let their hair down following a year in which the annual festivities were squelched by Covid, the crowd, made up mostly of people in their 20s, instead walked into a death trap.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
• Today Venus is a smoldering death trap, with a thick atmosphere that traps heat in an extreme version of Earth's own global warming effect.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2017
• Witnesses in the trial describe the space as both an artists’ utopia and a death trap, crammed with pianos, organs, tapestries, artwork and flammable materials.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019
• Both became fiery death traps for a combined 70 souls, two of the worst disasters in modern California history.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
• M-44s are horrific death traps full of cyanide that kill thousands of unsuspecting animals every year, even pets.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2019

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