How to Use mousetrap in a Sentence

mousetrap

noun

• And so the better mousetrap is, in the end, the one that persists.
  — Steve Tengler, Forbes, 7 June 2022
• The better mousetrap is not built for a day, but to endure.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 17 Feb. 2018
• The next clip is nearly the same scene, but this time, the mousetraps are spread out and the single ping pong ball bounces through them safely.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 10 Apr. 2020
• By the way, the best baits for mousetraps are peanut butter, soft gummy candy, wet dog food, and cheese, of course.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2020
• Who knew the best mousetrap was invented over 400 years ago?
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Dec. 2017
• Among his many mousetrap designs is one involved a bowl and a tool called a fillboll.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Dec. 2017
• Viewed in one light, dating apps look like a brilliant mousetrap.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 10 Sep. 2018
• The finish: Knoxville won by pinning Zayn as he was caught in a giant mousetrap.
  — Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
• The coder crowd has gotten better and better at making mousetraps that get, as if by magic overnight, faster and smarter.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2018
• Jeremy Allaire a chance to crow about his better mousetrap.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
• Not surprisingly, the mousetraps fire in rapid succession and trigger the traps next to them.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 10 Apr. 2020
• There is, for instance, a life-size mousetrap arranged in a giant circle.
  — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 19 May 2016
• And that's criminals using A.I. to build the better mousetrap.
  — CBS News, 28 May 2023
• But those trying to take advantage could end up in a legal mousetrap.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• As Dan hits the trampoline, the mousetraps hang suspended in the air for a brief moment before landing.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2017
• Building a better mousetrap is a great way to onramp users into the digital realm.
  — Kathleen Walch, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
• The great policy sin is that none of this has anything whatever to do with building a better mousetrap.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• One of its workers came to the house late last year, bearing mousetraps and mattress and pillow covers to control mites and other triggers.
  — Rachel Bluth, baltimoresun.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Many of the offices contain mousetraps to fight the inevitable infestation.
  — Sarah Ellison, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• What if someone else bring along a better, more disruptive mousetrap?
  — Rhett Power, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• There are plenty more ways beyond the traditional mousetrap to get rid of mice infesting your house.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
• What Zeller has done has built a mousetrap for Anthony and for the audience: a portrait of encroaching dementia as seen from the point of view of the demented.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2021
• There’s always going to be incentive and temptation to build a better mousetrap by any means available.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2020
• Cyber-criminals and pranksters are always looking to defy the next better mousetrap.
  — Mark Nevins, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• There is a sinking feeling among some that this building of a better mousetrap might not be grandly and immediately accepted by the world at large.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• Asked to name one area where he's learned to build a better figurative mousetrap, Cooter pointed to nuances within his playbook like running a route at a 14-yard depth instead of 12 yards.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2018
• A Florida man who suspected neighbors were stealing his mail set up a mousetrap in his mailbox — but the victim of his plot ended up being the mail carrier.
  — Tiffini Theisen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 June 2017
• Putting aside snark for a moment, the A’s have an owner who doesn’t care if his team wins and has a mousetrap in his wallet, the Giants have an owner who helps finance the coup of democracy, the Raiders have an owner who abducted his team.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 12 Dec. 2020
• Sometimes companies get lucky, are smart about enlisting allies, or make a better mousetrap.
  — Shira Ovide, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
• However, McNew had to accomplish that while blindfolded and with mousetraps scattered across the table.
  — Anthony Clark Carpio, Burbank Leader, 15 June 2017

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