How to Use speed trap in a Sentence

speed trap

noun
  • See some of the worst speed traps in the state in the gallery above.
    — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Doing the same to alert others to a speed trap, though, might.
    — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Reddit threads warned us about radar speed traps, ubiquitous and strict.
    — María Cristina Lalonde, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2025
  • But that feature could save you from blundering into a speed trap.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2018
  • The former mayor doesn't dispute the idea of a speed trap built to prop up the town budget.
    — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Traffic jams, police cars, accidents, stopped cars, speed traps, road closures, and so on.
    — David Pogue, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
  • Android users had already been able to report crashes, speed traps and traffic slowdowns right on the app.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Welcome to Hillsboro, the town that may well be Alabama’s worst speed trap.
    — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Most notably, earlier this year the company began adding speed trap alerts.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2019
  • Experts compared the process to a speed trap where violators get warnings but rarely tickets.
    — Rachel Axon, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Waze optimizes route times by navigating users around traffic and alerts them of accidents and speed traps.
    — Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 10 Jan. 2018
  • But long-standing objections — including that police will use radar in speed traps to make money — persist.
    — Michaelle Bond, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
  • Towns that function as speed traps have been around since automobiles became the dominant mode of transportation.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
  • Police continue to conduct speed traps to warn or cite drivers for dangerous behavior.
    — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • German radio stations alert drivers to the locations of speed traps on the Autobahn.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • His comments come after the AAA puts up a billboard warning that Waldo is a speed trap.
    — Mark Skoneki, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 July 2018
  • California’s speed trap law was first drafted more than five decades ago, when police officers first began using radar guns to catch speeders.
    — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
  • They were also aided by a network of spotters, driving ahead of them and reporting road conditions as well as the placement of police speed traps.
    — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • But critics fear that allowing even one speed camera on Route 210 could set a precedent and lead to an expansion of the state’s speed traps.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Earlier this year, Google brought speed limits and speed trap alerts to the app and also added features like being able to add a stop to the route while driving and to view nearby gas prices.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Along the way, Google Maps alerted me to a few speed trap locations set up along a stretch of highway in Michigan, as evidenced below.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 2 Jan. 2022
  • These top three form a sort of Orion’s Belt of speed trap towns, as all three are on a 15-mile stretch of that highway in northwest Alabama.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 19 Sep. 2022
  • While navigation apps such as Waze can reduce your chances of being caught in a speed trap, radar detectors have never been more effective at sniffing out Smokey.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 22 June 2022
  • What’s new with Google Maps are new Waze-like tools, like the ability for people to report crashes, speed traps and traffic slowdowns from their iPhone.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Navigation apps like Google Maps previously did not identify road conditions that could affect traffic, such as speed traps.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The town, home to nearly 1,300 people, is another northwest Alabama speed trap, between Huntsville and the Shoals.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg disagrees with the idea that cameras are speed traps.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Mantua has had a reputation as a speed trap, even spurring a state senator in 2016 to introduce legislation capping how much money towns could make from speeding fines.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Every winter, the air quality in Delhi turns hazardous as lower temperatures and decreasing wind speed trap particulate matter closer to the ground.
    — Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz India, 8 Nov. 2020
  • One potential precedent is our regulation of driving—which includes licensing, mandatory bans of recklessness and drunkenness, and surveillance tools like speed traps.
    — George Church, Ars Technica, 19 June 2019

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