Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In hydraulic engineering, a device for separating sand and other heavy particles from running water.
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Examples
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The GOP had better get a suitable candidate or they'll never make it out of the sand-trap.
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But the mission's iconic image showed Shepard using a makeshift golf club to hit "a little sand-trap shot" to demonstrate the low gravity.
NASA celebrates astronaut Shepard's historic first flight 2011
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Even if Spirit can't be rescued from this sand-trap its mission will hardly be over.
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By the time we had made it through the village, we were the idyllic Peace Corps vision: three sweaty white people on bikes, with about 50 giggling children alternately leading us and following us as we struggle through the sand-trap that is their home.
welcome to 2008... jen 2008
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By the time we had made it through the village, we were the idyllic Peace Corps vision: three sweaty white people on bikes, with about 50 giggling children alternately leading us and following us as we struggle through the sand-trap that is their home.
Archive 2008-01-01 jen 2008
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Time will tell -- quickly -- if CollegeOnly is a better widget for students in a particular time of their lives -- or one more digital sand-trap with a long and checkered tail.
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Time will tell -- quickly -- if CollegeOnly is a better widget for students in a particular time of their lives -- or one more digital sand-trap with a long and checkered tail.
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It was fun, but maybe more than we had bargained for: we ended up biking in the hottest part of the day, trying to get through the forest to a beach – and the closer we got to the coast, the more our path turned into a sand-trap.
Archive 2008-01-01 jen 2008
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Time will tell -- quickly -- if CollegeOnly is a better widget for students in a particular time of their lives -- or one more digital sand-trap with a long and checkered tail.
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It was fun, but maybe more than we had bargained for: we ended up biking in the hottest part of the day, trying to get through the forest to a beach – and the closer we got to the coast, the more our path turned into a sand-trap.
welcome to 2008... jen 2008
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