How to Use sand trap in a Sentence

sand trap

noun
  • Golfers will putt their balls across the big wave and avoid the sand trap.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 June 2021
  • The sand traps on the left side of the green may in fact be the safer miss.
    — star-telegram, 16 May 2018
  • The sand in the course’s sand traps is made on-site from recycled glass.
    — Nick Aspinwall, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • It’s used for glass, casting in foundries, even playgrounds and golf course sand traps.
    — Geoffrey Giller, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2019
  • There’s a nine-hole golf course (no grass, all sand traps) and a lawn mower racetrack.
    — Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • All of the above is a tee up for a drive directly into the sand trap of guilt.
    — Ellie Krieger, Houston Chronicle, 19 June 2019
  • The greenery and the sand traps stayed in place as the ring was set up in the middle of it all.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
  • The course has uphill, downhill and sidehill lies, fast greens and sand traps on all but one hole.
    — Joyce Rudolph, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Lew drove his second shot into the sand trap after hooking his tee shot to the left.
    — Eric Sondheimer, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
  • Hauling his fat ass out of sand trap, playing his 192nd round of golf.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • On the other side of the putting green are two large chipping greens -- one with sand traps, one without.
    — John Dunlap, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2026
  • Driving the ball uphill over a lake gives way to long fairway and green guarded by sand traps.
    — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 19 June 2018
  • The team was careful not to change the bunker carries but the fronts of the sand traps were made more guest-friendly.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • No obstacle looms larger than the expansive sand trap that wraps around the entire front half of the green.
    — Brent Kennedy, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2018
  • The sand traps are generally small and not that deep, aiding in recovery shots.
    — Brent Kennedy, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2018
  • Both are small, slope back to front, are severely perched (especially from the back) and neither has any sand traps.
    — star-telegram, 16 May 2018
  • The Spirit rover, mired in a Martian sand trap, was shut down in 2011.
    — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
  • The best homes are not predictable models next to a sand trap, protected by a net or shatterproof windows.
    — Sam Lubell, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
  • At 17, Schauffele found himself in more trouble, this time when a drive landed in a sand trap.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Its windows look over the in-ground heated pool, a putting green with a sand trap, and ample space for gatherings and a game of croquet.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 12 June 2022
  • Its windows look over the in-ground heated pool, a putting green with a sand trap, and ample space for gatherings and a game of croquet.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2023
  • There was scraggly grass in one sand trap and wooden blocks and a toy castle in another, evidence of children at play.
    — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • An assistant manager who wanted to make the hole easier could remove the sand trap.
    — Leidy Klotz, Scientific American, 12 May 2022
  • Killer cicada wasps may dig in the loose soil in vegetable gardens, flower beds, in sandy areas on playgrounds, or in golf course sand traps.
    — Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Hints of the once popular and well-tended golf course emerge at various intervals, such as the overgrown sand trap.
    — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2022
  • Greens are guarded with some diabolical sand traps, and the usually whipping wind forces you to plot every shot.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Police have said that the truck, found lodged in a sand trap, was registered to Pierson, but have released few other details.
    — Christian Boone, ajc, 7 July 2021
  • Bought with burger money from a former Dodgers star, the palatial estate includes a two-hole golf course complete with a sand trap.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Siller, the course’s golf pro, went to find out why the truck had driven onto the fairway and gotten stuck near a sand trap, investigators said.
    — Shaddi Abusaid, ajc, 31 Aug. 2022
  • At Topgolf, 10 targets (and a few sand traps) of varying size are positioned throughout the field.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2019

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