deadfall

Example Sentences

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Then, a video demonstrating an ancient deadfall trap received over a million views.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023

The device’s clever design and battery-powered fans also allow it to emit less smoke than your standard fire pit, regardless of whether you’re burning charcoal or deadfall.

From The Verge • Nov. 8, 2021

That means using handsaws to clear deadfall from trails, block-and-tackle pulley rigs to lift bridge timbers and spud bars to pry rocks out of trail treads.

From Washington Times • Aug. 19, 2017

Looking up from the sidewalk, I was always conscious of this stark deadfall.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014

I had always considered this a kind of semantic deadfall, but moving about in my own country I am not at all sure that is so.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck