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
When listening to the document presented by President Wilson that morning, he had been struck by the cleverness with which the Bolshevists were attempting to lay a trap for the Allies.
From The Bullitt Mission to Russia by Bullitt, William C. (William Christian)
