trapdoors
- plural of trapdoor.
Example Sentences
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"Are we now asking inspectors to pry up the floorboards and look for trapdoors?" he asked.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2023
There is action as well, involving intricate stagecraft like revolving platforms and trapdoors.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
They’ve linked their albums together too, creating a nebulous realm called the Gizzverse — a place filled with people vultures, rattlesnakes, tetrachromats, trapdoors, gators, fishies, garden goblins and various other strange creatures and out-of-body experiences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
This adaptation of "Station Eleven" contains so many trapdoors and routes by which it could have gone astray.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2021
His head must have stayed back at the theater long after we left, for when the waitress asked for his order, he said, "They must have more trapdoors on that stage than a magic act."
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
