death trap

noun

1. a building, vehicle, etc, that is considered very unsafe

Example Sentences

With witty chapter titles such as “Don’t Be Upstaged by Your House” and “Unless You Have Deep Pockets, the Big City Is a Death Trap,” Ms. Nichols, an associate professor of classics at Georgetown University, guides us through a series of Roman writers with subjects as varied as interior decoration, new construction, infrastructure and real estate.

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Prosecutors told the trial that years of failings had turned the club into a death trap.

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"He has led his country into a death trap."

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One of the more fascinating aspects of “Ancient Desert Death Trap” is the way this testing is done.

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You can’t accuse those who title “NOVA” episodes of burying the lede with “Ancient Desert Death Trap.”

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