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
But they did have 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
Partly because of this, Woodstream, the country’s largest rat and mousetrap manufacturer, sells some 60 million mousetraps a year and nine million rat traps, according to Miguel Nistal, the company’s president and chief executive.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023
Tie one end of the string to the trappy part of the mousetrap.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
