How to Use lobster trap in a Sentence

lobster trap

noun

• In Gloucester, the lobster trap tree has been a part of the Christmas landscape for 20 years.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2021
• Salmon racks haven’t seen the inside of a Maine lobster trap for twenty years.
  — Andrew Hetherington, National Geographic, 1 May 2019
• Roderick Grimshaw pushed an empty lobster trap to the stern as Michael Grimshaw hauled up the rest.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2021
• Problem was, that line would also break under the weight of a dozen lobster traps.
  — Kathryn Miles, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• There are no tables—just a bunch of old rusty, lobster traps masquerading as them.
  — Molly Baz, Bon Appétit, 27 Apr. 2020
• The plan would mean reducing by half the number of lobster trap lines that could entangle whales.
  — USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
• In high-traffic areas, boaters have the tendency to cut their buoys, which can be attached to gill nets or lobster traps.
  — Melanie Bencosme, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2018
• All around the wharf, spilling over into the parking lot, on the grass and even, in some spots, along the Overseas Highway that traverses the Florida Keys, lobster traps are stacked.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
• Three others were spotted near Miscou Island trailing ropes, which attach crab and lobster traps on the seabed to buoys (see map).
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• Right whales, other whales and turtles get caught in lobster trap lines, but fewer lines can maintain the same lobster catch levels.
  — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 7 June 2020
• Maine was dreamy, with quiet stretches of woods full of swimming holes and rope swings, lobster traps stacked in pleasing geometries.
  — Eryn Loeb, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
• The picnic tables are surrounded by a wall of blue-wire lobster traps, a hint that co-owner Matt Weber is a lobsterman.
  — Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• Six auctioneers banter and dicker their way through rows of antique plows, hand crank Maytags, saddlery and a few lobster traps.
  — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 17 Mar. 2018
• Preorder a picnic or get a full clambake delivered complete with lobster trap tables, torches, and an enclosed fire pit from The Kitchen Porch.
  — Rachel Marlowe, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2018
• What follows is a really sweet lobster trapping date on the water (only The Bachelorette).
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 6 June 2019
• While there is definitely a lot of old money parked in the island’s clifftop estates, this is still very much a place where locals greet each other by first name, where fisherman sail out before sunrise to pull up their lobster traps.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2018
• The storm scattered and destroyed tens of thousands of lobster traps as the Keys’ fishing industry — the second-largest economic driver in Monroe County at more than $150 million — was paralyzed for three weeks.
  — Carlos Frías, miamiherald, 12 Oct. 2017
• Though the world didn’t beat a path to his door in Northbridge, Mass., Mr. Knott eventually persuaded most manufacturers of lobster traps to use his product—plastic-coated wire mesh—rather than wood to make their devices.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
• In the Marine Tent, kids of all ages have hands-on educational opportunities, including sea life touch tank and lobster trap building demonstrations.
  — Necee Regis, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jul 2024