mousetrap

Example Sentences

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A bit like setting and later triggering a mousetrap.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

“They say they’re building a better mousetrap to handle more business without laying on additional cost, but you can’t really test that until the business comes,” Seidl said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

"Wagner troops climbed into Bakhmut like rats into a mousetrap," Oleksander Syrskyi, commander of Ukraine's ground forces, told troops at the Bakhmut front this week.

From Reuters • May 20, 2023

There are more than 4,400 mousetrap patents in the United States, but it is difficult to find designs specifically for catching rats — most are just bigger mousetraps.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023

He didn't like it when she said foolish words lined up, like mousetrap taffy-puller.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye