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How to use trap in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Trap means a machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. Example: “I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.”

Examples of trap by meaning

nounA machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by...

  • I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
  • Now we've got him in a trap, let's take his leg off right up to his testicles.1995, Richard Rhodes, quoting Curtis LeMay, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, New York: Simon &...

nounA trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.

  • Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.

nounA fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender...

  • Bridget is the super trap2007 Weekend Reading: Bridget is straight by 8bit Brian of Destructoid, reply by batempo on 20 August 2007
  • Of course Kei would look like a young woman, that's how traps work!2010 July 20, Antonio E. Gonzalez, “Re:Moyashimon Live Action”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)
  • When it explains about the trap's problems in HS it was much clearer than the same section of the manga.2013 September 7, Bobbie Sellers, “Re: What's your favouite anime?”, in rec.arts.manga (Usenet)

nounAny device used to hold and suddenly release an object.

  • They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.

nounA covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

  • Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.

nounA kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.

  • Tossing, the negro walks up the trap-ladder.1920, Soviet Russia, page 14
  • The stokers, breaking into excited talk, picked him up and dragged him up the trap ladder to the deck.1960, Bernard Guilbert Guerney, An Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period from Gorki to Pasternak

nounAn area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.

  • Maybe T.I was also making connection between fur trapping and living in the trap, or the hood.2018, Kyle T. Mays, Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in North America, page 93
  • Stay in the trap like my name was McCaulk.2021 November 19, “Pink 3 Remix”performed by PCAJAY
  • I walk in da trap with a Glock and a K in my sock.2022 September 25, “Dork”performed by Aeterluv

nounA successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

  • After 100 traps, the arresting cables have to be replaced to minimize the danger of a worn or fatigued cable snapping under an aircraft.

More sentences with trap

  • That rockslide trapped me in a cave, and I was trapped for three days, but I lived.From the entry live
  • It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!From the entry stupid
  • The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive.From the entry gleam
  • I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.From the entry entice
  • The locker of the trapped chest must be careful, so as not to spring the trap.From the entry locker
  • Her acedia kept her trapped in a cycle of depression and torpor.From the entry acedia
  • He managed to beat the offside trap and clinch the winner.From the entry offside trap
  • Why don't you just shut your trap? I'm tired of listening to you.From the entry shut one's trap
  • The hole at the beginning of the level is a beginner's trap.From the entry beginner's trap
  • He fell into a trap by believing his childhood friend and giving away all of his savings.From the entry fall into a trap
  • Yet I walked into the trap like a bug to a zapper.From the entry like a bug to a zapper
  • He was really booking until he passed the speed trap.From the entry book
  • It was a tearful and heartfelt reunion as the trapped miners finally saw their dear loved ones again.From the entry reunion
  • I felt trapped in a dead-end job.From the entry dead-end
  • They were all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes.From the entry gaudy
  • How does a waterless urinal have a drain trap?From the entry waterless
  • You really walked into that trap, didn't you?From the entry walk into
  • The trap was lined with spikes.From the entry spike
  • A common threat to icebreakers is besetment, where they are trapped in the ice and unable to ram the ice to escape.From the entry besetment
  • To show he doesn’t do his fair share of work, I’ve set him an elephant trap. If he falls in he’ll look like a clown.From the entry elephant trap
  • If you are not careful, you can fall into a trap of focusing too much on getting more loans instead of paying off other bills.From the entry fall into a trap
  • On this episode of Interstellar Voyagers From Uranus, our heroes encounter a planet where shrink rays threaten to trap them inside a terrarium as an alien's pets!From the entry shrink ray
  • The Pima County Sheriff's Department said the woman was trapped underwater after being knocked off her bike.2026 August 14, “Cyclist rescued after being knocked into rushing water at Sabino Canyon”, in Arizona Daily Star. From the entry knock off
  • And yes, some characters are trapped in a room filling with yoghurt.2025 December 26, Stuart Heritage, “Stranger Things season five vol 2 review – the fact that this isn’t unbearable is a miracle”, in The…. From the entry slap
  • Then Harris closed the trap with a line in her convention speech: “Trump is an unserious man.2024 August 26, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s personal attacks aren’t just who he is. They’re his strategy”, in CNN. From the entry bill
  • Three Philippine women working in Dubai died in their car, trapped by waters gushing down the street.2024 April 25, Angela Dewan, “Scientists find the fingerprints of climate change on Dubai’s deadly floods”, in CNN. From the entry philippine

Meaning of trap

  1. noun A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
  2. noun A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
  3. noun A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.

Full definition of trap

Questions about trap in a sentence

How do you use trap in a sentence?
Trap is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.”
What is a short sentence with trap?
“Bridget is the super trap”
What does trap mean?
Trap means a machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: trap (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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