Sentence examples for spring a trap from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bizos said Mr. Tsvangirai had been too trusting, giving Mr. Mugabe "an opportunity to spring a trap".

The security forces had meant to keep her and other women's-rights activists under surveillance — to track their network and their activities and spring a trap later.

The security forces had meant to keep her and other women's-rights activists under surveillance to track their network and their activities and spring a trap later.

She might just be a slip of a thing, susceptible to the swaggering advances of blade-wielding modern pros, but Maid Merion could easily be ready to spring a trap when the US Open begins on Thursday.

It's the easiest thing in the world to spring a trap," said one of the activists.

A week later Howe tried to spring a trap on one of Washington's detachments that would have cut the American retreat into the hills off; this effort was repulsed in the Battle of Short Hills.

You had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing if not cunning, had sprung a trap.

Yet the melodious omnipotence of Prospero springs a trap on unsuspecting composers.

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Counterparty controversy Metal cashing Hope springs a trap ReprintsInvesting in Ethiopia is not for the faint-hearted, however.