booby trap
Example Sentences
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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
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
Dine-ba-whoa-blehi, “man trap,” was our word for a booby trap.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
