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Examples of traps in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Bears that get caught in traps may just be more curious to begin with. Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023 Specific pairs of males and females kept showing up in traps together. Steven Phelps, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2023 In it, Sharkey and a group of coauthors named some new species of braconid wasp that had been caught in malaise traps in Costa Rica. Brooke Jarvis, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022 In Lee County, where Fort Myers is located, mosquito counts in the traps began to spike about a week after Ian. Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2022 See all Example Sentences for traps 

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Word History

Etymology

Middle English trappe caparison — more at trap

First Known Use

1813, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of traps was in 1813

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“Traps.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traps. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.

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