Examples of traps in a Sentence
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Bears that get caught in traps may just be more curious to begin with.
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Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
Specific pairs of males and females kept showing up in traps together.
—Steven Phelps, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2023
In it, Sharkey and a group of coauthors named some new species of braconid wasp that had been caught in malaise traps in Costa Rica.
—Brooke Jarvis, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022
In Lee County, where Fort Myers is located, mosquito counts in the traps began to spike about a week after Ian.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2022
The stockings were put in separate traps at the end of a long tube, then dozens of mosquitos were released.
—Maddie Burakoff, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2022
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management confirmed two positive findings for West Nile virus in mosquito traps earlier this year.
—Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2022
If caught in traps, Egyptian geese cannot be relocated and must be kept in captivity or humanely killed.
—Scott Luxor, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
The park is a place where conservation biologists can study the pumas up close, witnessing their behaviors from 65 feet (20 meters) away in a way that might only be observed in camera traps in the United States.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
Specific pairs of males and females kept showing up in traps together.
—Steven Phelps, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2023
In it, Sharkey and a group of coauthors named some new species of braconid wasp that had been caught in malaise traps in Costa Rica.
—Brooke Jarvis, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022
In Lee County, where Fort Myers is located, mosquito counts in the traps began to spike about a week after Ian.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2022
The stockings were put in separate traps at the end of a long tube, then dozens of mosquitos were released.
—Maddie Burakoff, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2022
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management confirmed two positive findings for West Nile virus in mosquito traps earlier this year.
—Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2022
If caught in traps, Egyptian geese cannot be relocated and must be kept in captivity or humanely killed.
—Scott Luxor, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
The park is a place where conservation biologists can study the pumas up close, witnessing their behaviors from 65 feet (20 meters) away in a way that might only be observed in camera traps in the United States.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
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“Traps.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traps. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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