death trap
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I agree with French philosopher Etienne Balibar, who cautioned that to confront violence with more violence becomes a death trap for the left.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
She said: "I'm not on the fiddle anymore but I don't feel safe here. It's a death trap."
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Given the proximity of so many homes to wildlands, and given the drought and hurricane-force winds, many of us are living in a sprawling death trap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
There are explanations without meaning: Its space station death trap is divided between two sides, one called Romulus and the other Remus after Rome’s foundational fable, without leaning into the why of it.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024
“I am certainly not going to sit up in that death trap of a front seat for highway travel. Now get in this go-cart and get us out of here.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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