How to Use booby trap in a Sentence

booby trap

noun

• Someone had rigged a booby trap that blew up the car when the engine was started.
• We set a booby trap by balancing a bucket of water on top of the door so that it would fall on him when he came in.
• Some say the booby traps of Qin Shi Huang’s tomb are real.
  — Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
• And the area remains awash with bodies and booby traps.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 16 May 2018
• Dykes had set a booby trap: a snake pit of cables blocking the way into the bunker.
  — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2020
• And now he's stepped up his game to a booby trap, changes things for us immensely.
  — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2020
• These are all of booby traps that are everywhere for them.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 10 Oct. 2023
• Write down the targets, draw up plans and booby trap the roads, lay down [roadside bombs], and spread out snipers and kill with silencers.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 27 Jan. 2020
• She was killed while on patrol when a Marine walking in front of her tripped a booby trap.
  — James B. Nelson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2017
• It was thought their digging had triggered a booby trap.
  — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
• At one point, Granit and the crew smash glass Coca-Cola bottles to build a makeshift booby trap.
  — Amos Barshad, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• The booby trap was placed on the sidewalk of a Southwest Austin neighborhood and those injured were young white males.
  — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2020
• They were targeted by land mines, booby traps, snipers.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
• Stranger said that during the initial search of the property, one of the deputies stepped on a board with nails sticking up from it — which Stranger said had been placed as a booby trap.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
• The troops cleared mud-brick compounds and found many homemade explosive booby traps.
  — Habib Khan Totakhil, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• Residents are being told to stay away from the city for now, until landmines and booby traps -- found in many of the towns and cities ISIS has fled -- are removed.
  — Arwa Damon and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN, 20 Oct. 2017
• His soldiers fought slowly from house to house, impeded by snipers and booby traps.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2017
• The gunman in that attack, which killed 12, attempted to booby trap his home before the shooting.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 28 May 2021
• And some dangers are homegrown—Ukrainians who fled early in the war often left booby traps in their own homes in case the Russians came and tried to loot them.
  — Thomas Mutch, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2023
• Erin Moriarty: Why would anybody set up that booby trap with a .357 in the closet?
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2018
• Once, Steer came across an explosive charge -- a booby trap left by the enemy to kill American soldiers -- ahead of him in the trees.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2022
• At the time, an Israeli commander said that soldiers, fearing booby traps, had not ventured down the shaft.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• The side roads and fields are inaccessible, as teams sweep for the landmines, bombs and booby traps that ISIS is expected to have left behind.
  — Arwa Damon, Ghazi Balkiz and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 3 Nov. 2017
• Now DeKalb County has had to close the park after authorities discovered the area was rigged with booby traps.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
• Due to the area being riddled with mines and booby traps, extensive cleanup and digging at the site couldn’t begin until late August last year.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 1 May 2018
• There ultimately isn't much to that vault, at least beyond the usual array of temple-of-doom wall puzzles and booby traps.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• One booby trap was recovered in a building across the street, designed to blow when the electricity was switched back on, but Rhyzenko’s home appeared to be safe based on the expert’s search.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2022
• Ronald Cyr, age 65, a most distrustful chap, Determined to defend his home, devised a booby trap.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• The blue-eyed Mr. Gantz, who looks like he was chiseled from Ashkenazi granite, seemed to blunder into cultural booby traps.
  — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Houses kill people in a myriad of ways because all houses are booby traps.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024