wolf trap

Example Sentences

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Schriever said Thursday that no grizzlies have so far been caught in a wolf trap.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2022

His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes a badger will be caught in a wolf trap.

From Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture by Kreps, Elmer Harry

But still it wasn't a broad, stark, daylight lie neither; it was only a civil fib, for I was going after my wolf trap before I got my breakfast.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

At his shoulder, tall, gaunt, angular, with lantern jaws and a mouth like a wolf trap, deep-set eyes that flamed under bushy eyebrows, stood Pierre de l'Hopital, the true master of Brittany.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank