trapdoor
Example Sentences
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Sunderland, like Newcastle before them, eventually slipped through the relegation trapdoor in 2017, and spent eight years outside the top flight.
From BBC
As he is forced to descend into one of these by a ladder, his reflections echo those of Jonah falling into the deep: “Every nightmare, every fear, every fevered thought climbs down with me, step by step, down the ladder. I brace myself for total darkness, for the Hamas tunnels I’ve seen on TV, the ones we’ve all heard about . . . . Any moment now, the trapdoor will shut above me, and I’ll be buried here.”
Scientists at the University of California, Davis report the discovery of a previously unrecognized trapdoor spider that lives in California's coastal sand dunes.
From Science Daily
Trapdoor spiders are small, secretive relatives of tarantulas.
From Science Daily
"There are now four known species of trapdoor spiders in California that live exclusively in coastal dune habitats," said corresponding author Emma Jochim, a doctoral student in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
From Science Daily
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