lay a trap for
Example Sentences
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Rich and Michonne decline to give her any aid, and Jadis is eventually forced to lay a trap for the mindless zombies that roam the trash heap.
From The Verge ● Mar. 5, 2018
Al Franken: I didn’t lay a trap for him.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2017
Ford plans to lay a trap for Falstaff by visiting him under a false name.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2013
Trap the racists and anti-Semites, and you lay a trap for me too.
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2011
"Yes, sir, they climb any thing; but I have got his tracks, and this night I think that I shall get hold of him, for I shall lay a trap for him."
From The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat
