deathtrap
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of deathtrap
Example Sentences
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KYIV, Ukraine — When the power is out, as it so often is, the high-rise apartment overlooking Ukraine’s war-torn capital feels like a deathtrap.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
His 1965 book, “Unsafe at Any Speed,” painted the Corvair as a deathtrap, ushered in an era of consumer activism and led to the founding of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
Gleaming, gluey, deathtrap hairs have betrayed the secret identity of a well-known wildflower: It’s a carnivore.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021
Rodney Griffin, a construction worker, said he once told Almena, then a close friend, that the building was a deathtrap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2019
The garden, meant to nurture, had become a deathtrap.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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