How to Use death trap in a Sentence

death trap

noun
  • The factory was a death trap with too few exits for the workers to use in case of a fire.
  • That old elevator is a death trap.
  • More people should be fleeing this death trap.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Their creation comes across as a death trap — or a surefire way to get tetanus, at the very least.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That's like a death trap to me, personally.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • Many sheltered in place, terrified that their own home could become a death trap.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The prehistoric black ooze that still seeps from the ground was a sticky death trap for the massive mammals that once roamed here.
    — CBS News, 22 Mar. 2018
  • When winds changed the fire’s direction, the resort town of Mati became a death trap.
    — Nektaria Stamouli, WSJ, 27 July 2018
  • The road that nearly hurled Tiger Woods to his death Tuesday has been a speed and death trap for decades.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2021
  • For old-school, high-church surfers, the search for a hundred-foot wave can seem like a marketing conceit, not to mention a death trap.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • The harnesses meant to keep the passengers safe on the doors-off helicopter flight had turned into death traps.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The franchise has gone from a golden destination for quarterbacks to a death trap in the eyes of the public.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Nov. 2022
  • On Wednesday night, the apartment turned into a death trap as water gushed into his unit and quickly overwhelmed him.
    — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Eight people famous for being famous go on a sketchy reality show that turns out to be a death trap with millions of viewers.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2021
  • DeSantis’ determination to stop mask mandates in schools is a death trap.
    — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Baldy’s accessibility, coupled with the catch-all crowds, has earned it the reputation of a death trap.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The region’s once reliable sources of water have turned into death traps for animals desperate to reach the muddy ponds.
    — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The evil, mocking cunning of this virus is to have rendered all those temples of delight and enlightenment potential death traps.
    — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Keep reading here, as Ed explains the science behind the glowworms’ beauty—which, for insects, conceals a death trap.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Given the proximity of so many homes to wildlands, and given the drought and hurricane-force winds, many of us are living in a sprawling death trap.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Inmates, their family members and several medical experts have described the prison as a death trap.
    — Savannah Eadens, The Courier-Journal, 23 May 2020
  • As rescue workers brought the last of those trapped in the car to safety on Tuesday, relief that their lifeline had not become a death trap washed over the village.
    — Salman Masood, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Even if the other crew members did not get off the boat, and went to their deaths trapped in the boat, Sowden's team doesn't expect to excavate enough to find anything.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Toward the end of the film, the club transforms into a death trap, with the director staging scenes that revel in the process of defeating enemies.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
  • M-44s are horrific death traps full of cyanide that kill thousands of unsuspecting animals every year, even pets.
    — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2019
  • There is no other reason for families to pay thousands of euros for room on a floating death trap rather than a few hundred euros for seats on a short and convenient flight.
    — Dimi Reider, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2015
  • Neither is ready for the supernatural forces that turn their mundane self-destruction into a terrifying death trap.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 9 Aug. 2025
  • That assumption holds the key to understanding why the terrain off Ninety-Nine 90 has become such a death trap.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Witnesses in the trial describe the space as both an artists’ utopia and a death trap, crammed with pianos, organs, tapestries, artwork and flammable materials.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019
  • The lithe and agile Spitfire responded instantly and Tuck narrowly avoided the death trap.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2021

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