Example Sentences

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Standing there, studying that face, watching those traplike hands, the Orioles decided that Bauer was for real�at least, most of them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The powerful throat seems to be preparing its organ tones; the wide, traplike mouth is about to open.

From Time Magazine Archive

And wrinkles—wrinkles wheresoever there was room for them: across the forehead that lost itself in shining yellow scalp; under the eyes, down the cheeks, about the traplike mouth.

From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon

And the men moved up with their talk and stink And the traplike noise of the horseshoe clink.

From Reynard the Fox by Masefield, John