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Spirit lasted six years before getting stuck in a sand trap and sending its final communications in 2010.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
While at work on the golf course over the July Fourth weekend, Siller noticed a white pickup truck had driven onto the 10th green of the country club and was hanging over the edge of a sand trap.
—Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 3 July 2024
There was scraggly grass in one sand trap and wooden blocks and a toy castle in another, evidence of children at play.
—Cara Buckley, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
There’s a nine-hole golf course (no grass, all sand traps) and a lawn mower racetrack.
—Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1922, in the meaning defined above
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“Sand trap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sand%20trap. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
sand trap
noun
: a hazard on a golf course consisting of a hollow containing sand
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