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Example sentences for "trap door"

  • Suddenly he noticed that near the feather lay a trap door.

  • I am in a kind of a cup-shaped space maybe ten feet across but not higher than I am; there is a trap door in the ceiling; the Thing is lying all around me in a mess of plastic arms, with an extensible stalk connecting it to the wall.

  • The next thing I notice is two holdalls, B's and mine, clamped against the wall, and the next after that is the opening of a trap door in the ceiling and B's head silhouetted in it remarking Oh there you are Liz.

  • But the other conspirators, who were looking down through the trap door, said if he did not do it they would kill him.

  • After this the boys looked down through a trap door, which led to a dark dungeon, where it is supposed that prisoners were sometimes confined.

  • I suppose they did not see the trap door.

  • Then he saw a trap door in the floor, which led down to a kind of dark dungeon.

  • The furnace in the basement of the church is reached by a trap door, which is right beside the pulpit.

  • There was a new preacher there from abroad, and he did not know anything about the trap door, and the sexton went down there to fix the fire, before the new minister arrived.

  • If there had been a trap door to let us down into the beer saloon below, we would have taken passage on it in a minute.

  • He opened a trap door, and we climbed down after Craig, entering a subterranean chamber, led by Long Sin.

  • The next moment Long Sin, who had entered through a trap door, climbed down a long ladder and walked into the room.

  • Opening a trap door in the floor of the room in which they were standing, he led Bennett down a step-ladder into the subterranean chamber in which Tong Wah had so recently been preparing his mysterious potion.

  • In the stage there is a trap door, over which is placed a fancy rug that has a piece removed from it exactly the same size as the trap, to which the piece is fastened.

  • Half the bottom of the trunk constitutes a trap door which is opened by inserting a round key in one of the ventilating apertures.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trap door" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anchovy paste; answered grimly; black flies; camp fire; cast them; commanded respectively; cracked wheat; each family; greater extent; lieutenant general; looked more; many cells; military matters; optical instrument; other witnesses; prove the; royal governor; thou wouldest; trap door; trap rock; wave motion; white sand; young friend