set trap

Example Sentences

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With his knife he then cuts a hole in the snow exactly the size of the set trap, the plate of which has already been daubed with mixed bait.

From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Heming, Arthur Henry Howard

The Chilians had walked into a cleverly set trap and were paying dearly for their mistake.

From Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Rainey, W. (William)

Could the leaving of the craft in fit condition for our use be part of some carefully conceived plan; a bait to draw us into some set trap?

From The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War by Parrish, Randall

This was precisely what Kah-go-mish had hoped they would do, and right before them lay the other part of his cunningly set trap.

From The Red Mustang by Stoddard, William O.

It appeared to have escaped from a deliberately set trap.

From Operation Terror by Leinster, Murray