18 examples of death-trap in sentences

The head of the triangle became a death-trap.

That sangar was a death-trap to its garrisontheir only line of escape was across some open, shaley slopes within four hundred yards of our firing line, and the Levies were now working along the hill, and would catch them in the sangar if they didn't clear out.

Some Sharks are of great size and immense power; they are by far the largest of all living fish; and no animal in the whole kingdom of animals owns such a terrible death-trap of a mouth as the Shark.

Our village lies near the centre of Moonfleet Bay, a great bight twenty miles across, and a death-trap to up-channel sailors in a south-westerly gale.

They had taken refuge in this pool, which was now about to become a death-trap.

It is always a dangerous voyage, for the current is fierce and the rocks are death-traps.

When we have crawled past these death-traps and stand in safety once more, we throw down bits of stone, and seconds elapse before we hear the dull thump with which each signals its arrival in the depths.

"The place is a regular death-trap.

Yet we went on, mixed up always in refugee rushes, in masses of troops moving forward to the front or backwards in retreat, getting brief glimpses of the real happenings behind the screen of secrecy, meeting the men who could tell us the hidden truth, and more than once escaping, by the nick of time only, from a death-trap into which we had tumbled unwittingly, not knowing the whereabouts of the enemy, nor his way of advance.

In a little while they will be in a death-trap from which there is no escape for them.

But they were beautiful men for all their dirt; and the laughing courage, the quiet confidence, the un-bragging simplicity with which they assured me that the Germans would soon be caught in a death-trap and sent to their destruction, filled me with an admiration which I cannot express in words.

These brutal 'Boches' are going to put themselves in a veritable death-trap.

Our defenses become death-traps and slaughter-pensoh, how foully, foully has Richmond betrayed her sister city!"

I hardly, dared to take a step, for I knew these underground cells were honeycombed with death-traps.

Do yuh know, Dilly, the range is just going t' be a death-trap, with all them damn fences for the stock to drift into.

Very strongly it reminded the Master of the gallery in the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, which he had seen twelve years beforethe gallery which in ancient days had served as a death-trap for treasure-seekers.

None but a fool would have remained in such a death-trap.

He now wriggled away under cover of Hope's dialogue and lighted the fuse, then he came flying back to get safe out of the mine, and leave Hope in his death-trap.

18 examples of  death-trap  in sentences