rattrap

Example Sentences

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While cleaning it I found lots of matches, a cap, and a rattrap.

From The New Yorker

Chumley’s, he wrote, came well recommended when he was seeking a place to take “a ‘nice girl’ instead of the rattraps I usually patronized.”

From New York Times

The carton was very sticky, covered in glue from rattraps.

From New York Times

He remembers that house as a “rattrap,” a term that had an all-too-literal meaning for Rice, whose feet were bitten by rodents while he slept.

From Newsweek

“Intelligence is a rattrap,” says one cynical spymaster.

From New York Times