7 sentences with 'trap'
Example sentences and phrases with the word trap and other words derived from it.
• « "That impatience is a trap," warns Robert Shiver, CEO of Senses International, a communications firm. »
• « After attaching a sack to the entrance of the trap, the expert opens the door, drops the animal into the sack and holds it by the scruff of the neck through the cloth. »
• « In the kitchen, Ulving rolled up the rug, opened a trap door and climbed down a narrow staircase to the basement. »
• « Time passed and all three became nervous. The criminals began to suspect it was a trap. At that, someone knocked on the door. »
• « These leaves, which open like a spring trap, close on the insect at a speed of 80 metres per second as soon as it dares to touch two of the sensitive hairs pointing upwards. Why two and not just one? To prevent the plant from wasting time swallowing non-nutritious panicles that have been casually deposited by a draught. »
• « Cocaine has fallen into its own trap, as the ephemeral "ecstasy" it gives to its users has been the key that allowed scientists to learn the intimacy of its action; the exact way in which the biology of the most mysterious and protected organ, the brain, is altered to give rise to an addict. »