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
"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
“If our mind-set approaching this is that we have to build a better mousetrap to catch kids cheating, I just think that’s the wrong approach, because the kids are going to figure something out.”
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023
He had supposedly built a better mousetrap, and the world had indeed beaten a path to his door.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2022
In one hole, he’d found only a tangle of leaves and berries, and in another, a mousetrap, which snapped on his thumb.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
