Sentence examples for empty traps from inspiring English sources

One of the rules of working with New World quail, however, is to be ready for empty traps and for the birds to defy all planning and expectations.

But Mr. Been said that as he waited to be transported off the island, a mustached, tattooed lighting technician, who had apparently been drinking, "just came out of nowhere" and told him he had heard Mr. Burnett considering secretly placing fish in empty traps set by the hungry contestants.

Empty traps and traps with sterilised wood were used as controls.

Combining landscape types, the proportion of beetles encountering pheromone + kairomone-baited traps (0.61) was not greater than the proportion encountering empty traps (0.50).

Empty traps, however, weren't enough to get me off the hook with Larry.

Empty trapping containers distributed among plants were used as background controls.

Background VOCs present in ambient air were collected using empty trapping containers and background signals were later subtracted if necessary from raw intensities of plant samples prior to further processing.

Close an empty trap at dawn to prevent the accidental trapping of a diurnal animal.

Empty rabbit traps leaned against a wall.

In the evenings, when he left the house with his men, he would often let José and Campodónico empty the traps, along with a new recruit known as the Old Guy, while he set off alone for the ruined village.

Her father had been a tanner who had come to the Cropsey place to collect his pelts or empty his traps, and she told the Woloszczaks her memories as a child of being invited into the Cropsey house for cookies.