mousetrap in English

noun

1

a trap for catching and usually killing mice, especially one with a spring bar that snaps down onto the mouse when it touches a piece of cheese or other bait attached to the mechanism.

You should bait mousetraps with chocolate, not cheese.

verb

1

induce (someone) to do something by means of a trick.

the editor mousetrapped her into giving him an article

Use "mousetrap" in a sentence

1. A mousetrap has five parts that are absolutely necessary for the mousetrap to function.

2. We mousetrap him somehow.

3. Behe uses the example of a mousetrap.

4. The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

5. Building a better mousetrap, one raindrop at a time.

6. 18 They bait the mousetrap with stale cheese.

7. She remembered the mousetrap Clare had given her.

8. My cellar is so damp, when I lay a mousetrap, I catch fish.

9. Have you got any stale cheese that I can bait the mousetrap with?

10. As long as there have been mice, people have sought a better mousetrap.

11. After years of effort, we have finally invented the perfect mousetrap. Nothing could work better.

12. So the mouse returned to the house, head down dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.

13. Take any one of these parts away and the mousetrap can no longer catch mice.

14. The separate pieces do not make a mousetrap—it must be complete to function as such

15. The mouse turned to the pig and told him, " There is a mousetrap in the house! "

16. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: There is a mousetrap in the house!

17. And be warned, you can't legally set a mousetrap in California without a hunting license, either.

18. Be doubly careful. I'm sure all manner of stupid mousetrap await our toes in the dark.

19. It reminds me of a Russian saying - the only free thing is the cheese a mousetrap.

20. It is no longer enough to build a better mousetrap and wait for the world to beat a path to your door.

21. Be it in a mousetrap or an atomic detector, the right kind of trip-lever can always trigger an arbitrarily large effect.

22. Economic change is usually good for innovative technology companies. Latent demand for a better mousetrap sometimes turns into a desperate need to catch mice cheaper and faster.

23. Forget the blizzard that Besieges the cozy guesthouse in Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap": In the production of the iconic play running at 1st Stage, in Northern Virginia, the icy glares of Mrs

24. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which was performed in the West End