traps

Example Sentences

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To lessen your risk of infection, keep wild rodents out of your home and other enclosed spaces by sealing any holes and placing snap traps.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Will Sommer: It’s kind of like pulling in the lobster traps.

From Slate • May 7, 2026

Despite the danger, this activist claims to have saved 36 Bengal tigers from guns or traps -- and 106 local residents from the animals' jaws.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

"The inspiration came from systems known from atomic physics, where electrons can occupy different energy states. In photonics, a similar role is played by optical traps, which confine light instead of electrons."

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026

“See that limb way up there? That’s where my gunny sack and traps were. Now they’re gone. I guess that big monkey took them with him.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls