How to Use mousetrap in a Sentence

mousetrap

noun
  • And so the better mousetrap is, in the end, the one that persists.
    — Steve Tengler, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • Viewed in one light, dating apps look like a brilliant mousetrap.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Among his many mousetrap designs is one involved a bowl and a tool called a fillboll.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Dec. 2017
  • But those trying to take advantage could end up in a legal mousetrap.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • There is, for instance, a life-size mousetrap arranged in a giant circle.
    — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 19 May 2016
  • By the way, the best baits for mousetraps are peanut butter, soft gummy candy, wet dog food, and cheese, of course.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2020
  • What if someone else bring along a better, more disruptive mousetrap?
    — Rhett Power, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The next clip is nearly the same scene, but this time, the mousetraps are spread out and the single ping pong ball bounces through them safely.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The coder crowd has gotten better and better at making mousetraps that get, as if by magic overnight, faster and smarter.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Building a better mousetrap is a great way to onramp users into the digital realm.
    — Kathleen Walch, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
  • In some ways, the molecule behaves like a tiny molecular mousetrap.
    — Chelsea Haney april 10, New Atlas, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Not surprisingly, the mousetraps fire in rapid succession and trigger the traps next to them.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The great policy sin is that none of this has anything whatever to do with building a better mousetrap.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • There are plenty more ways beyond the traditional mousetrap to get rid of mice infesting your house.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Many of the offices contain mousetraps to fight the inevitable infestation.
    — Sarah Ellison, The Hive, 19 June 2017
  • Sometimes companies get lucky, are smart about enlisting allies, or make a better mousetrap.
    — Shira Ovide, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • There’s always going to be incentive and temptation to build a better mousetrap by any means available.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2020
  • One of its workers came to the house late last year, bearing mousetraps and mattress and pillow covers to control mites and other triggers.
    — Rachel Bluth, baltimoresun.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Cyber-criminals and pranksters are always looking to defy the next better mousetrap.
    — Mark Nevins, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • As Dan hits the trampoline, the mousetraps hang suspended in the air for a brief moment before landing.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2017
  • There is a sinking feeling among some that this building of a better mousetrap might not be grandly and immediately accepted by the world at large.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • However, McNew had to accomplish that while blindfolded and with mousetraps scattered across the table.
    — Anthony Clark Carpio, Burbank Leader, 15 June 2017
  • Catwoman has always been an antagonist and a mousetrap for Batman, but she's never really been his lone love interest.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • For them, the focus is primarily on making a better mousetrap, in this case devising a self-driving car, and little energy goes toward the aims of marketing or promoting their wares.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Every winter in British Columbia, trappers set hundreds of mousetrap-like devices baited and fastened to trees to capture and kill bushy-tailed, weasel-like animals called martens for their fur.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Asked to name one area where he's learned to build a better figurative mousetrap, Cooter pointed to nuances within his playbook like running a route at a 14-yard depth instead of 12 yards.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2018
  • In a hotly competitive sector where customers demand faster transactions and lower costs, the rewards of building the best blockchain mousetrap could be vast—the penalties for missing out, proportionately painful.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Instead of building a revolutionary new mousetrap, did Bright Health build a more-or-less conventional mousetrap assembled out of mousetrap parts easily found on the internet?
    — Lee Schafer, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • Putting aside snark for a moment, the A’s have an owner who doesn’t care if his team wins and has a mousetrap in his wallet, the Giants have an owner who helps finance the coup of democracy, the Raiders have an owner who abducted his team.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Building a better mousetrap is innovative, not anticompetitive.
    — Stephen Moore, National Review, 22 Feb. 2022

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