booby trap
Example Sentences
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The scene from 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark shows Indiana Jones - played by Harrison Ford - outrunning a giant boulder triggered by a booby trap, before leaping to safety.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
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
The case became a sort of moral and historical booby trap, as Lipstadt and her legal team feared that it would effectively permit Irving, a lifelong Adolf Hitler admirer, to put the Holocaust on trial.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2016
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
