mousetraps
- plural of mousetrap.
Example Sentences
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The first tells of laying mousetraps, but that didn’t work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
“They have built one of the most complex mousetraps in the world,” Mr. Brunson said.
From New York Times • May 31, 2023
Local volunteers pitched in to help build the contraptions, which are triggered by mousetraps and fashioned out of PVC pipe and chicken wire.
From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023
But the gatekeepers of phony commercial solutions to existential violence — such as better helmets, no more effective than better mousetraps — want us to focus on only one aspect of football harm.
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2023
We did not have any mousetraps or rat poison in the house, and my mother had not been up to anything suspicious during the night.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
