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
Prosecutors told the trial that years of failings had turned the club into a death trap.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
PCH felt like Main Street, not the driving death trap it would become.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 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
Julia and I could look up at the canyon rims on either side of us and imagine the towering monolithic face of a one-hundred-fifty-foot-tall death trap that stretched across the sky from west to east.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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