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
“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
He didn't like it when she said foolish words lined up, like mousetrap taffy-puller.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
