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Example sentences for "mousetrap"

Lexicographically close words:
mourns; mourut; mous; mouse; mouses; mousie; mousing; mousmes; mousquetaire; mousse
  1. It was true; the combination mousetrap and insect sprayer still lay in its wrappings on the bench.

  2. It's a combination mousetrap and insect sprayer," Hamish explained.

  3. It is another to say (in the face of ocular experience) that the mousetrap runs after the mouse.

  4. It is one thing to say that the mousetrap is not there by accident.

  5. The mousetrap could be patented, but not the formula used to calculate the speed at which it would snap shut.

  6. The response, presumably, is to fine tune our patent standards--to patent the mousetrap and the corkscrew, not the notion of catching mice or opening bottles by mechanical means.

  7. If we lingered we should be caught by the tide in Mousetrap Cove, and then nothing could save us.

  8. Perhaps even within the last few centuries the spot called Mousetrap Cove, scooped out of the peninsula on which the old church stands, was dry land.

  9. And I knew that mousetrap was there, and I never touched a scrap of it.

  10. She had eaten every bit of cheese from the set mousetrap under it; I forgot to tell you, Phyllis.

  11. Trina burst in upon her mother while the latter was setting a mousetrap in the kitchen.

  12. Mrs. Sieppe set down the mousetrap with such violence that it sprung with a sharp snap.

  13. My orders were to put a mousetrap by each mousehole.

  14. I'm right here," George cried, stepping out of the mousehole and neatly side-stepping the mousetrap beside it.

  15. In the meantime, the mousetrap continued in operation, and likewise d'Artagnan's vigilance.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mousetrap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    deadfall; decoy; gin; mine; mousetrap; pitfall; projector; silo; springe; trap