trap door

Example Sentences

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But the trap door was what made it real for me.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025

As battered suitcases and black sacks stuffed full of cigarettes are heaved up through the makeshift trap door, a man who we're told helps out in the shop watches on laughing.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2025

The trap door then closes again by means of an elastic resetting mechanism.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024

During her final Guts tour stop at the Rod Laver Arena, Rodrigo was running across the stage, pointing to cheering fans, when she dropped through a trap door.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024

He tore a flap from the opened cardboard box and chased out the smoke with it and then he climbed up and lowered the trap door and turned and looked at the boy.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy