death trap

noun

1. a building, vehicle, etc, that is considered very unsafe

Example Sentences

I recognized several of the camps where the Dales and Ward had halted when the brute was leading them into the death-trap.

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It was a death trap that any experienced mountaineer would recognize at a glance.

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As long as we held to our fundamental assumption—that Davies had been decoyed into a death-trap in September—it explained nothing.

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They were only allowed to remain south of the Marne long enough for Foch to convert these river crossings into a death-trap.

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Then the enemy began to shell the second line, and Zouave Wood became a death-trap.

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