TRAP in a Sentence

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For TRAP, below is one of 154 sentences:
We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public-house.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRAP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
trap
 v.  catch; hold or catch as if in a hole
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
2  Mr Betts drove her in the trap to her house in the village, with the box.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  He was silent like some beast in a trap.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
4  He then drew forth: as it seemed to Oliver, from some trap in the floor: a small box, which he placed carefully on the table.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  No one is stirring yet, but I know where the stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
6  In the road stood our horse and trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
7  At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
8  My companion sat in the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the deepest thought.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
9  We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way to Leatherhead.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
10  The trap drove on, and a few minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
11  It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid some terrible trap for her.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
12  We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public-house.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
13  Then my gentleman threw up the trap, and he cried that I should drive right away to Waterloo Station as hard as I could go.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
14  The results shows that the trap was skillfully baited.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
15  The horse and trap were to have come this week, but for some reason they were not delivered, and again I had to cycle to the station.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
16  It is the door that comes out into that little close alley between the tavern and the old rattle trap of a brick store.
17  Last year Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince pulverised Awamiyah, a rebellious town; Saudi forces shelled its 400-year-old neighbourhoods and erected siege walls to trap some 200 gunmen.
18  So I got all my traps into my canoe again so as to have them out of sight, and I put out the fire and scattered the ashes around to look like an old last year's camp, and then clumb a tree.
19  Small print in documents can contain traps for the unwary.
20  It has the trappings of an election campaign in the United States, with slick television ads touting the candidates.
21  A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings.
22  She scorns the visible trappings of success, preferring to live unnoticed.
23  Secret brotherhoods surround themselves with arcane rituals and trappings to mystify outsiders.
24  The plan boomeranged when they were trapped instead of their victim.
25  The stream has frozen up; you can see the fish trapped in the ice.
26  She trapped him into a situation that he liked her.
27  UN troops will secure the land corridor so that food supplies can reach the trapped civilians.
28  Until he saw the trapped wagons and animals, he did not realize the full extent of the catastrophe.
29  Three people died as wreckage blazed, and rescuers fought to release trapped drivers.
30  Rescuers worked in relays to save the trapped miners.