How To Use Mousetrap In A Sentence
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There was a general agreement not to get a cat or mousetraps, but simply to minimize the amount of food left about.
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In the middle of our interview he left the table to go and deal with a dead mouse from a mousetrap under his cooker!
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According to a report in New Scientist, a mousetrap has been developed by Rentokil that will text your mobile to tell you when it has successfully caught one.
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Then Bo called him saying, ‘Just watch out when you open the cupboard doors, because I've set some mousetraps.’
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Before the Mousetrap, Hamlet calls Horatio ‘as just a man / As e'er [his] conversation cop'd withal ’.
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Mousetraps are traditionally baited with cheese.
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They bait the mousetrap with stale cheese.
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I imagine it must be like a game of Mousetrap in there, all cogs and levers, ball bearings and little plastic men diving into baths.
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Have you got any stale cheese that I can bait the mousetrap with?
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The mouse turned to the pig and told him, " There is a mousetrap in the house!
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Before the Mousetrap, Hamlet calls Horatio ‘as just a man / As e'er [his] conversation cop'd withal ’.
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Hardware such as nails, screws, tools, axes, mops, brooms, rakes, rope, tubs, mousetraps, flashlights, batteries, and barbed wire could be purchased.
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Ransome searched the local shops in vain for a mousetrap, he even tried the local bakery - surely they had mice - but he needn't have worried.
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However, the kitchens built by Saint-Louis still exist, forming what is now called the mousetrap; and it is probable that the original Conciergerie was situated in the place where, till 1825, the Conciergerie prisons of the Parlement were still in use, under the archway to the right of the wide outside steps leading to the supreme Court.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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Burchell was just the piece of cheese that had been put in the mousetrap.
SNOWLINE
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He had already wound the clock and set it for midnight, and he got the mousetrap set on the first try.
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These mammals were collected through a variety of techniques, including snapback mousetraps, rat traps, and pitfalls.
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Some staff even boast personal mousetraps.
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Faure's face clearly showed that he did not like being mousetrapped.
Moonwar
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I was thinking of how I got mousetrapped sneaking out of the last bar I was in.
Myth-Nomers And Im-Pervections
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My first reaction was to send a one word reply then my sense of humour took over and I sent the attached reply: ‘The only free cheese is in a mousetrap!’
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That strange low buzz, just perceptible beneath the excited hum of a world waiting for curtain-up on the 20,000th showing of The Mousetrap: the longest-running murder mystery saga of all time.
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As it happened, I was working on some material related to cyberspace, pornography, and the First Amendment, and actually did have to access some such sites for work reasons for instance, to confirm examples of misleading domain names such as whitehouse.com, as well as examples of “mousetrapping” sites that made it hard for you to effectively close the window in which they were opened.
The Volokh Conspiracy » License to access pornography:
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This morning I noticed the mousetrap had moved from its place behind the door to the other side of the room, under the vegetable rack.
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At the same time they put out mousetraps to kill the mice that were stealing the bird food.
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One department store noticed a spike in requests for rat-killing products a few years ago, and now they have a full line of devices, from traditional mousetraps to a high-tech contraption that uses a rat-scaring sensor.
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produced a better mousetrap
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design a better mousetrap
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Fearful of getting mousetrapped again, Bush pulled back from the press and, to a certain degree, from the voters themselves in the summer and fall of 1999.
Pumping Iron, Digging Gold, Pressing Flesh
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We opt battle only when we have our opponents mousetrapped.
The Black Company
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Each night he set mousetraps to obtain specimens from the small rodent population.
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Burchell was just the piece of cheese that had been put in the mousetrap.
SNOWLINE
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So, the mouse returned to the house and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
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Some of the early favorites are the Mousetrap, with Tillamook sharp cheddar, creamy havarti and Monterey Jack; and the Windy City with provolone, roast beef, garlic butter and Chicago-style marinated peppers.
American Grilled Cheese Kitchen
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A pest-control firm has launched a chocolate-scented mousetrap after university researchers found rodents preferred it to cheese.
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You see, OOL researchers aren't interested in whether their mousetrap is reasonable or not.
BioLogos Reviews "Signature in the Cell"
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Those of us who have spent much time around a computer know what a 'mousetrap' is.
The slow-motion non-firing continues.
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His mousetrap analogy is flawed, and appeals to things in laypeople that are highly misleading (it misled you, for instance, and it is especially misleading in the implication that we should look at the issue as one of taking a part away from a complex system, or in assuming that all parts all exist for only a certain function instead of potentially being exapted).
Waldo Jaquith - Supermajority of Republicans are creationists.
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L'Affaire Biden - when the vice president was mousetrapped and humiliated when Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem shortly after he arrived in Israel to reaffirm U.S. solidarity with Israel - was dismissed as a mere "spat" by the neoconservative
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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The most immediate of these could involve mousetrapping Obama into committing U.S. forces to war provoked with Iran.
Antiwar.com Original
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My reasons for this are as follows: Several people had told me that I should try candy in the mousetrap, as mice like candy.
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Saint – Louis still exist, forming what is now called the mousetrap; and it is probable that the original Conciergerie was situated in the place where, till 1825, the Conciergerie prisons of the Parlement were still in use, under the archway to the right of the wide outside steps leading to the supreme Court.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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He observes him doing the laundry, setting mousetraps, smoking a pipe, taking a bath.
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They said nothing else, and Regan read the instructions on the back of the mousetrap boxes.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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You should bait mousetraps with chocolate, not cheese.
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The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
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She was a dumpy woman, dressed in black, with a mouth that snapped shut like a mousetrap.
SNOWLINE
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I put a mousetrap in my purse to solve my problem with my sticky-fingered brother.
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One such technique is called mousetrapping, which forces users to remain on the Web site.
The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make
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‘I'm thinking you know you've mousetrapped me fair and square,’ he told her, ‘but I've a mind to hear a bit more about you before we're off to the South Weald.’
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His mousetrap analogy is flawed, and appeals to things in laypeople that are highly misleading (it misled you, for instance, and it is especially misleading in the implication that we should look at the issue as one of taking a part away from a complex system, or in assuming that all parts all exist for only a certain function instead of potentially being exapted).
Waldo Jaquith - Supermajority of Republicans are creationists.
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Olegt steps on rake, smashes nose, steps backwards onto shovel, whacks head, stumbles forward into ditch, crawls out puts hand in mousetrap, falls backwards into wedding cake, large drooling St. Bernard licks icing off his face, and … cut!
Berlinski stirring the pot
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One of Lee's jobs is to keep the office mousetraps constantly replenished with cheese: he has stacks of individual cubes in the fridge.
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The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
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The spindle holder is called a mousetrap, because it's spring-loaded.
September 2007
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Thus, when a prison van turns to the left in this yard, it has brought prisoners to be examined to the "mousetrap"; when it turns to the right, it conveys prisoners committed for trial, to the Conciergerie.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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Advertisements, that wrought a revolution in that department of literature, my uncle was brought to realise not only the lost history, but also the enormous field for invention and enterprise that lurked among the little articles, the dustpans and mincers, the mousetraps and carpet-sweepers that fringe the shops of the oilman and domestic ironmonger.
Tono Bungay
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Then there is the mousetrapping of the Clintons per se, which I laid out last November: President Clinton has agreed to submit his future endeavours to strict ethics reviews by the White House counsel and the State Department's ethics office.
William Bradley: Hillary's Back! (Or Not)
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Anyone who wants to make a better mousetrap has to invent around existing mousetrap patents.
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Be doubly careful. I'm sure all manner of stupid mousetrap await our toes in the dark.
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Another discussion I had with a friend of mine a long time ago I made the apperception, I said, "blacks have never been mousetrapped.
Oral History Interview with Hylan Lewis, January 13, 1991. Interview A-0361. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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They said nothing else, and Regan read the instructions on the back of the mousetrap boxes.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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After phonecalls to many people, we discover one house which has a spare mousetrap.
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So the mouse returned to the house, head down dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
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Be it in a mousetrap or an atomic detector, the right kind of trip-lever can always trigger an arbitrarily large effect.
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Each day, she takes dictation, types letters on a big old Selectric, makes coffee, and, on occasion, ‘freshens up’ the mousetrap.
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This means that we're supposed to believe that radical Islamic terrorists are clever enough to beat American defenses and carry out a well planned, well timed attack on 9/11, but they're so dumb that they'd fall for a "mousetrap" ploy that would ensure their extinction.
Here Are Some Crazy Theories for You
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She was a dumpy woman, dressed in black, with a mouth that snapped shut like a mousetrap.
SNOWLINE
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I notice a high-tech mousetrap by the door - breweries always have problems with mice because of all the grain - but everything looks sparkling clean.
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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains how the CIA under both Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan "mousetrapped" the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan and then kept Soviet forces bogged down.
Consortiumnews.com
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‘No,’ I said, ‘I'll just put some mousetraps in the garage.’
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But next up was his budget director-designate, Leon Panetta, who mousetrapped the boss by reinforcing Kamarck: "She made my speech!
A Blue Christmas For Elvis
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Factually, at least from the complaint, it does not appear that the law firm "circumvented" anything, if by circumvent we mean devised a mousetrap to bypass the denial text string.
B2fxxx
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mousetrapping" problem with your browser that won't let you get out of endless attempts to get the action you desire from clicking, close out of the browser completely by hitting ctrl-alt-del. and then terminating the browser.
Undefined
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I'm guessing it's called a mousetrap because there's a spring that wants to push the piece down.
September 2007
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A political entrepreneur lobbies Congress to prohibit the importation of foreign-made mousetraps.
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Aided, abetted, and possibly mousetrapped by untold numbers of quantative analysts, "AKA" quants, many of whom are Chinese nationals, the financial services industry created thousands of new investment vehicles in uncharted waters.
Young Executives' Report: 1972 Declaration of War Against Family Farmers
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Mousetraps are traditionally baited with cheese.
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The funniest is "Impossible" by Herval and Aris, featuring a toy airplane with an unrequited crush, though is has some close competition in "Mousetrap" by Johane Matte, Ghislain Barbe, and Eric Baptizat and "The Flying Bride," which seems to be missing attribution, and "Icarus" by Johane and Matte, which indicates that Dedalus's invention of those wings was a long and painful time coming.
Book Review: Flight Volume 2
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They are similar to large mousetraps and are designed to break the back of an animal.
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This onomatopoeic word suggests to me the sound a mousetrap makes when it snaps shut.
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Those were the exact words used by Vice President Joe Biden in Israel on March 9, before he was mousetrapped.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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And be warned, you can't legally set a mousetrap in California without a hunting license, either.
