trap

Example Sentences

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To complete the trap, the spider wraps the cone with a thinner type of silk and quickly retreats upward.

From Science Daily • Jun. 26, 2026

"There is this concern about potentially having a middle-income trap for many emerging market economies," he said, pointing to limited sources of growth in a world where advanced economies were turning inwards.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

For years, the 34-room stone mansion at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa was a fire trap.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

One fix that “Wedges” leaned especially hard on was carbon capture and storage, a technology that promised to grab carbon pollution from smokestacks and other sources and trap it forever underground.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2026

I can’t help but feel like the spider is luring the fly into a trap.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold