How to Use trap in a Sentence

trap

1 of 2 noun

• Williams, 62, laid traps near the pond and creek in April to catch more.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• One day, a young man is caught in a trap set by the woman.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
• That way, the rat has to work at getting the nut, which will trigger the trap.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• Some traps were equipped with cameras that filmed the rats.
  — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
• Klein: For the last month, this has loomed as the potential trap game for the Rams.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• But a full-court trap and foul game wasn’t fruitful enough.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024
• But these sticky traps can rid you of some of your insect woes.
  — Helen Bradshaw, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
• The joke, of course, is on the Kens—the Barbies are setting a trap for their male foils.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023
• How to Do It: Step inside the trap bar, aligning your shins with the center of the bar.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
• The trap worked and secured the Malinois, who was unharmed from her weeks in the woods and the trap.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 13 Dec. 2023
• The trap is to look at that thing in the context of how society might view that thing.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
• The double-walled carafe traps heat and keeps coffee warm for hours.
  — Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
• Beyond the traps and the gore, Constantine says the dark heart of the franchise keeps it pumping.
  — William Earl, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
• According to Rogers, the opossum was caught in one of the traps, but escaped.
  — Megan Pacer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2023
• Do not fall for the trap because this could be our final time to fade the Heat this season.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• Tangled around its tail was a polypropylene rope used to pull up crab traps.
  — Ed Komenda, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
• Another sat for a long while by the trap, just looking at it.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Heisel realized the sow was caught in a trap set up nearby.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2023
• Hang your trap on tree branches where the wasps like to congregate.
  — Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
• The name Saiko stuck, and he’s been making music in the reggaetón-Latin trap space ever since.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• Hamas leaders have boasted the tunnels are hundreds of miles long and full of traps.
  — Peter Alexander, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023
• But what if solitude is a defense that has turned into a trap?
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• That trap was designed to kill everyone vis-a-vis a horde of zombies.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Think 10 years ahead: If short-term planning is the trap, then long-term planning is the solution.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
• Attached to the tip of their tongues is a pink, worm-like appendage, which dangles to attract fish right into the trap.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• Key members of that group for the deadlift include the traps, lats, erector spinae, glutes, and hamstrings.
  — Men's Health, 11 July 2023
• Derrick Mein will be favored in men’s trap, and Vince Hancock has a strong shot at his fourth skeet gold.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• In its second game ever in Class 5A, Melissa fell into a bit of a trap.
  — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Leonel Martínez, a trap shooter from Venezuela, left the Summer Games in 1984 without making the podium.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Photos show these animals climbing the cage or standing near the trap.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024

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trap

2 of 2 verb

• My voice was a mere squeak trapped in the vastness of the phone line.
  — Sean O’Rourke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• Slide the pillowcase over each fan blade to trap the dust that sits on the blades.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024
• He had been trapped in the mud for about 12 hours while trying to swim across.
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2023
• Plus, its stretch binding at the cuffs helps trap heat in.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
• She was trapped and brought to the shelter in November.
  — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2024
• So at the beginning of the film, he’s almost trapped by the mountains.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
• In contrast, Huey spent most of his own much shorter life trapped in the prison of his own mind.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
• After the crash, the boy was trapped under the vehicle.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2023
• But trapping peacocks, with their sharp beaks and talons, is not easy.
  — Patricia Mazzei Alfonso Duran, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Police say they were found in a red pickup that was trapped in 25 feet of water.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Dan and Connie were trapped in the burning house when Mark went into the home to bring them out to safety.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
• The oceans absorb 90 percent of the heat trapped by emissions, which is causing the ice sheets and glaciers to melt and the sea levels to rise.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2024
• In fact, some in the king’s fleet, including the king himself, are thought to be still trapped in a cavern on those lands.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
• What Could Be Better Dirt got trapped in the fibers easily.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2024
• Mema had been alive, trapped under the rubble, but she could not be reached in time, Razayne said.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• The blaze claimed the lives of three firefighters who became trapped when the building collapsed.
  — Lia Russell, Baltimore Sun, 21 Aug. 2023
• And the vent itself is powerful with a heavy-duty filter the brand claims will trap more oil and grease.
  — Deanne Revel, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2024
• Salmon the size of baby carrots would be whooshed into it, trapped in tanks and trucked around dams on their migration to the sea.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
• Alania realized she was trapped and couldn't move and had to send Hannah for help.
  — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
• Laundry is washed while enclosed in the bag, which traps microfibers that the garments release.
  — Judith Weis, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2024
• That storm killed almost a dozen people, who were trapped in their basement apartments and drowned.
  — Molly Taft, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• This allows a net to fully reach bottom ensuring that bait trapped in the mesh is caught.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 4 Jan. 2024
• Kneading develops the gluten and traps air inside the dough, which helps the dough rise during baking.
  — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2023
• After heavy rainfall, floodwaters blocked their path and trapped the team.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
• Because of this, Bell felt trapped and kept the ongoing abuse, which occurred at Peck’s home, a secret for six months.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• So much of this episode and the episode before are ways in which our characters are trapped: the trappings of their life, their society.
  — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024
• Some make it through the field and get trapped; those particles find escape where the magnetic field is weakest at the North Pole and South Pole.
  — Randi Selvey, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2023
• The collapse was followed by days of search and rescue for victims in massive piles of debris, where some were trapped.
  — Raja Razek, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• The video shows the increasingly distressed passengers trapped below deck with fire blocking a staircase and an escape hatch.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
• There are reportedly thousands of containers stuck inside the port, trapped by the violence.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024