booby trap
Example Sentences
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“The Zone of Interest,” which will be released in the U.S. by A24, is as methodically engineered a cinematic booby trap — for its characters, and its audience — as anything Haneke has ever directed.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2023
The soldiers passed a Russian military identification document, fluttering in the wind on the lawn of a house, but did not touch it to check the name, fearing a booby trap.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022
And he must navigate a legislative jungle that his opponents are trying to booby trap with amendments that could wreck his path to Brexit.
From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2019
As star pitchers go through their first few spring training games, we watch as if a bomb squad is defusing a booby trap.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2014
It now dawned on Harry, however, that the cup of cold tea on which he had trodden that morning might not have been a booby trap at all.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
