Sentence examples for pit trap from inspiring English sources
During which time, it appears that local hunters captured a second okapi in a pit trap.
So the unfortunate David Douglas (after whom the Douglas fir is named) does, as expected, meet his death "at the foot of a bull pit trap in Hawaii" - a mysterious end, we are told, "perhaps trampled, perhaps murdered".
The branches and leaves could be disguising a pit trap that you could fall in or step on something sharp.
A diamond shovel might be fast enough to dig a small pit trap even while you are being chased, but this is a risky tactic.
Rare reports describe it eating fish and freshwater molluscs, and some early reports even have it consuming the flesh of dead rhinoceros that had fallen into pit traps.
Atlantic City, formerly a breeding ground for big ideas, was now a tar pit — trapping financial mastodons and big-eyed dreamers, whether or not their intentions were pure, as the capricious gods of commerce looked on.
Domesticated animals are used to herd wild ones into pit traps, where the older members are often shot.
"It had pit traps with bamboo spikes, grenade booby traps.
The rhinos are difficult to observe and hunt directly (one field researcher spent seven weeks in a treehide near a salt lick without ever observing a rhino directly), so poachers make use of spear traps and pit traps.
Looking at the situation rationally I'm pretty sure I can pull out of my death spiral there are a couple of areas at the bottom of pit traps on previous levels that I haven't explored and that I can probably make it back to, which might contain some food (getting down there is going to hurt, though), or, at the very least, monsters that might drop food after I kill them (mm, giant snail meat).
