mousetrap
Example Sentences
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“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
They were flawed individuals, but they had a crucial insight into how to build a better mousetrap.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2023
"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
“It’s not incentivizing them to go out there and try to find somebody who’s built a better mousetrap and can generate power more cheaply,” he said.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022
In one hole, he’d found only a tangle of leaves and berries, and in another, a mousetrap, which snapped on his thumb.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
