How to Use trapdoor in a Sentence

trapdoor

noun

• At the bottom of the thirteen steps that lead up to the trapdoor, Bethea paused.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 Dec. 2017
• Sleep felt like a trapdoor for death, a time for all of my worst fears to creep in.
  — Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
• The old trapdoor in the dining area opens to a 400-bottle wine and food cellar.
  — Mike Powell, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
• Toward the bottom of this list are some of the trapdoors that drafters fell into.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2023
• And then, after the host is killed, these fruiting bodies emerge and grow out of the body of the spider and grow out of the trapdoor.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2023
• The stories are full of trapdoors, but Schutt’s craft is seamless.
  — Julie Orringer, New York Times, 22 June 2018
• Lisa finds the chaise longue said to be made from mother jaguar beneath the trapdoor in her bedroom.
  — Shannon Carlin, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
• Last year was supposed to be a springboard to even greater things this year, but so far, it’s seemed more like a trapdoor.
  — Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• Trump the Man might be crude and venal, but Trump the Spirit had opened a trapdoor in history.
  — Thomas Meaneeey, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• The body dropped down through a trapdoor into a cellar which connected with that of the pieman.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• In this way, a teen-ager in Kansas could warn an engineer in Shinjuku to watch out for a trapdoor.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
• But the contract had been drawn with a trapdoor at Article 20, a clause that transported you across the world.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• At one point, the host of the tour opened a trapdoor in the floor for customers to descend a shaky, unsecured ladder into a dark hole.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• Like many arachnids, trapdoor spiders make burrows to hide and rest in.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 2 Aug. 2017
• Like many arachnids, trapdoor spiders make burrows to hide and rest in.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 3 Aug. 2017
• The zoo sent the data to Godwin, who has been studying trapdoor spiders for almost a decade.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 3 May 2021
• The average trapdoor spider can live from 5 to 20 years.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 May 2018
• Despite the treacherous trapdoor, the 12-time Grammy winner penned a sweet shout-out to the Ohio city on Sunday.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 2 July 2023
• Little trapdoors open up to show a shadowy Karl, or an ominous phone, or a radio set in who knows where.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Maybe there really is a trapdoor under one seat in Loge 22, Row A.
  — Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
• There are other species of trapdoor spiders, mostly found in the southwest U.S.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2021
• At one point during her Eras tour set, Swift transitions from one song to the next by diving — yes, diving — through a trapdoor in the stage.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Like a trapdoor, the idea swings open to reveal a fantasy too fragile and nostalgic to be taken in the open air.
  — Zoe Hu, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
• Below the trapdoor, stone steps led to an oblong room filled with coal that at first appeared to be little more than storage space.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2017
• Access to the hole was created through a trapdoor that still exists today, Bruce told the paper.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• But instead of opening, the trapdoors beneath the handmaids' feet remain closed.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Alas, whatever Cream meant to say next is lost because at that moment the scaffold’s trapdoor opened.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• Among his 19 pet spiders, his favorites are his two trapdoor spiders.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
• At one point in the tour, visitors were asked to climb through a trapdoor in a floor and descend an unsecured ladder with flashlights to a dark basement.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• In the play, a hunting dog has to sit patiently inside a glass house, with a trapdoor underneath, without moving or turning his head, while men with deer heads run around the stage.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024