: an artificial hazard on a golf course consisting of a depression containing sand
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The question is whether new Dolphins GM Jon-Eric Sullivan will avoid the sand traps that often ensnared Grier and eventually left him on the unemployment line.—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026 The $30 million, 28-story towers contained 3,000 rooms, an 18-hole rooftop miniature golf course complete with sand traps and its own hospital.—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026 The Virgin Clubhouse at Heathrow used to have a hydrotherapy, bath-steam, room-tanning, booth-ski simulator, and a four-hole putting green with a sand trap.—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025 Dredge creates underwater sand trap A dredge is being used north of the Port Everglades jetties to dig a 20- to 50-foot bowl underwater, trapping sand that would typically be lost.—Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sand trap