Examples of death trap in a Sentence
That old elevator is a death trap.
The factory was a death trap with too few exits for the workers to use in case of a fire.
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The destructive wildfire had stripped the slopes of the nearby Santa Monica Mountains and now rain could send a tremendous amount of sediment flowing into Topanga Lagoon, a death trap for fish.
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Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The loan would reset every 30 days, the principal growing each month alongside the compounding interest in a convoluted death trap of penalties, fees, and clawbacks.
—Josh Condon, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2024
Or there’s a glowering Michelle Dockery in the 1910s begging her amateur-pilot husband not to get back into that death trap of a plane.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2024
Readers have argued about whether the boy’s fate is a happy ending, with continued existence, or a tragic ending, with some kind of death trap, but the reality here is that neither of these possibilities are particularly cheering.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
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Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The loan would reset every 30 days, the principal growing each month alongside the compounding interest in a convoluted death trap of penalties, fees, and clawbacks.
—Josh Condon, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2024
Or there’s a glowering Michelle Dockery in the 1910s begging her amateur-pilot husband not to get back into that death trap of a plane.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2024
Readers have argued about whether the boy’s fate is a happy ending, with continued existence, or a tragic ending, with some kind of death trap, but the reality here is that neither of these possibilities are particularly cheering.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Death trap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20trap. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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