How to Use speed trap in a Sentence

speed trap

noun

• See some of the worst speed traps in the state in the gallery above.
  — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
• Doing the same to alert others to a speed trap, though, might.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• He was caught in one of the worst speed traps in Alabama.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• As far as Drew Corn is concerned, his town is no speed trap.
  — Gordon Dickson, star-telegram, 1 May 2018
• The former mayor doesn't dispute the idea of a speed trap built to prop up the town budget.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Welcome to Hillsboro, the town that may well be Alabama’s worst speed trap.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2022
• Many drivers see little harm in it: some will even flash their headlights to warn others of speed traps ahead.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• His comments come after the AAA puts up a billboard warning that Waldo is a speed trap.
  — Mark Skoneki, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 July 2018
• But that feature could save you from blundering into a speed trap.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2018
• These top three form a sort of Orion’s Belt of speed trap towns, as all three are on a 15-mile stretch of that highway in northwest Alabama.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2022
• Linndale -- which is notorious as a speed trap -- is just 0.07 square miles.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2021
• Android users had already been able to report crashes, speed traps and traffic slowdowns right on the app.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
• But critics fear that allowing even one speed camera on Route 210 could set a precedent and lead to an expansion of the state’s speed traps.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2018
• This led to heroes like police officer J.C. Williams, who may have devised the region’s first speed trap.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Oct. 2021
• Traffic jams, police cars, accidents, stopped cars, speed traps, road closures, and so on.
  — David Pogue, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
• What’s new with Google Maps are new Waze-like tools, like the ability for people to report crashes, speed traps and traffic slowdowns from their iPhone.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2019
• Along the way, Google Maps alerted me to a few speed trap locations set up along a stretch of highway in Michigan, as evidenced below.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 2 Jan. 2022
• Earlier this year, Google brought speed limits and speed trap alerts to the app and also added features like being able to add a stop to the route while driving and to view nearby gas prices.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2019
• The town, home to nearly 1,300 people, is another northwest Alabama speed trap, between Huntsville and the Shoals.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2022
• German radio stations alert drivers to the locations of speed traps on the Autobahn.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• Most notably, earlier this year the company began adding speed trap alerts.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2019
• Waze optimizes route times by navigating users around traffic and alerts them of accidents and speed traps.
  — Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 10 Jan. 2018
• They were also aided by a network of spotters, driving ahead of them and reporting road conditions as well as the placement of police speed traps.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2019
• But long-standing objections — including that police will use radar in speed traps to make money — persist.
  — Michaelle Bond, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
• Towns that function as speed traps have been around since automobiles became the dominant mode of transportation.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• Everyone knows the speed trap: a sudden speed-limit drop, often poorly marked, with police waiting to pounce and local courts ready to assess fines for the local treasury.
  — Penny J. White and Glenn Harlan Reynolds, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2022
• For years, lobbyists treated the Foreign Agent Registration Act the same way some drivers treat speed limits — not something to worry about if there isn’t a speed trap around the corner.
  — Chris Megerian, latimes.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• In essence, fare fines (i.e. fines in excess of the original cost of fare) were operating similarly to speed traps: as an alternate source of revenue.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2019
• Google is rolling out the ability to report speed traps, crashes and slowdowns in real time to its Maps iOS app, making the new feature available to about 1 billion existing users worldwide.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
• Google is rolling out the ability to report speed traps, crashes, and slowdowns in real time to its Maps iOS app, making the new feature available to about 1 billion existing users worldwide.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024