mousetrap

Example Sentences

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If I can create a better mousetrap, because I’m observing something that has just been accepted, and I can do it better, then I will go into that industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

A bit like setting and later triggering a mousetrap.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

"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

“If our mind-set approaching this is that we have to build a better mousetrap to catch kids cheating, I just think that’s the wrong approach, because the kids are going to figure something out.”

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

Held high in her hand was a mousetrap, with the mouse still in it.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck