Sentence examples for on a trapdoor from inspiring English sources

In the latter, the local high-school principal sat on a trapdoor above a pool of water; a boy of ten succeeded in dunking him.

Elsewhere, the condemned person stands on a trapdoor, and when the trap is released he falls several feet until stopped by the rope tied around his neck.

With Green Bay looming next Thursday, some thought the Cowboys were standing on a trapdoor against the lowly Jets, who had stunned the Pittsburgh Steelers in overtime last Sunday.

Those being hanged had their arms pinioned to their sides with leather straps before being walked to the gallows, where they were placed on a trapdoor and their heads and faces covered with a white cap, or hood.

One soldier later figured that he had been standing on top of a trapdoor to Mr. Hussein's cramped underground hide-out.

Place in the shape of a trapdoor recipe.

The other end is attached to a trapdoor in the ceiling.

A trailer for the film showed Leia falling down a trapdoor of some kind.

We found trapdoor spiders, which dig a hole in the dirt and make a trapdoor on a spring fashioned out of silk to trap their prey.

Frédéric Nowak, with his stomach caked in blood from surface wounds, was one of at least 70 people who edged their way behind speakers and around the stage before running up a flight of stairs and forcing a trapdoor on to the roof.

Put a cauldron down, and a trapdoor on top of it.