Sentence examples for through the trapdoor from inspiring English sources

Welles fell through the trapdoor on dress-rehearsal night.

You went up through the trapdoor at the top of the attic stairs.

Falling through the trapdoor Carolyn is one of many people who fall through the tax credits net.

After Newcastle fell through the trapdoor 12 months ago they survived a mini-exodus of players, recruited cleverly and have been virtually untouchable ever since, under Richards's guidance.

From a position of relative security a few weeks ago, they are now in serious danger of slipping through the trapdoor.

From the very real prospect of having only one competitor in the last 16, the Premier League will now boast three clubs among Europe's elite, with only United falling through the trapdoor to the Europa League.

He lay on his back on the bed, smoking, and he didn't even turn his head as David lifted the trapdoor and climbed through; the room was thick with the rank smell of weed.

Sussex seemed as anxious as possible to embrace the challenge of the second division, hurling themselves through the relegation trapdoor as soon as it creaked open beneath them.

Dr. Julian H. Krolik, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, who was not involved in the work, said there could be other explanations, including the possibility that the magnetic fields somehow allow the plunging material to emit more radiation before falling through the irrevocable trapdoor of the black hole.

In Camp Bastion, Wilson climbed through the narrow trapdoor to the top of an observation tower, where the RAF regiment watched the Afghan desert.

Nevertheless, some considered Calcraft incompetent, in particular for his controversial use of the short-drop hanging method in which the condemned were slowly strangled to death, rather than the traditional method of having a victim's vertebrae broken by the weight of the body falling through the gallows trapdoor.