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Examples of death trap in a Sentence
That old elevator is a death trap.
The factory was a death trap with too few exits for the workers to use in case of a fire.
Recent Examples on the Web
Or there’s a glowering Michelle Dockery in the 1910s begging her amateur-pilot husband not to get back into that death trap of a plane.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2024
Readers have argued about whether the boy’s fate is a happy ending, with continued existence, or a tragic ending, with some kind of death trap, but the reality here is that neither of these possibilities are particularly cheering.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
The New York City Fire Department shut down a haunted house that the department called a 'death trap' Thursday.
—James Powel, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
The story turns on events that see hundreds of hikers become trapped on the Annapurna Range after snowstorms and avalanches turn one of the most breathtaking hiking trails in the world into a death trap.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1828, in the meaning defined above
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“Death trap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20trap. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
death trap
noun
: an object or situation likely to cause death
that old elevator is a death trap
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