How To Use Mantrap In A Sentence
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The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice".
Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
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You can shoot a rope that springs trappers' mantraps back onto them, drop a boulder onto a thug's head, or push wagons full of powder kegs toward a cabin full of enemies and take out a whole crowd with a single, well placed shot.
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Wright, who is best known for his low Prairie-style buildings, had a complicated relationship with tall buildings, calling one an “incongruous mantrap of monstrous dimensions.”
Little Skyscraper on the Prairie
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From your description, Louis, it sounded more like a mantrap to me.
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Cogs whirr, wires clunk and leering unpleasantness ensues as an ex-con breaks into a house which has been rigged up as a giant mantrap.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
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The room's tight security includes a biometric "mantrap" or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners.
June 2006
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But don't assume mantrap Brenda has the upper hand here.
General Hospital's Laura Wright Previews the Carly-Brenda Smack Down
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I was out of beer (sorry Bangar), nestlé took away all our polly waffles, and Mayhem scoffed the rest of the snakes, so I had to put something in the mantraps.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Open for business. The new renovated Ladies Lounge.
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It felt as if his right leg was caught in a mantrap; the more he tried to move, the more he thought it was going to be ripped clean off.
WALL GAMES
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Yeah, a mantrap would be considerably larger than an animal trap.
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[Logan Note: When I broke the story about West moving to Y&R, I referred to Carly as a "nutjob" and caught hell from several outraged fans who seem to think that Carly — a hyper-neurotic, self-destructive mantrap whose history includes fraud, bigamy, theft, drugging people and purposely inducing her own early labor — is apparently rather normal!]
Maura Goes West for The Young and the Restless
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Such tricks can be defeated with turnstiles, mantraps and guards, but those techniques have costs and limitations.
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The answer to the acrostic is "mantrap"; the missing rhyme is "mishap.
Marge Askinforit
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He placed a pencil between the strips and slid it along to the end, between the two jagged steel jaws of the "mantrap", which were each connected to three tiny pistons.
Country of the Blind
