How to pronounce traps
Listen to traps in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“traps” in real sentences
808 clips in the index · 71 American · 737 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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are snap traps, live box traps and electric traps.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 1:52 · hear it here
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covers all traps, including live-capture traps, live-capture traps for birds and spring traps, which are all
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 8:55 · hear it here
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I finished up with about 450 night traps and about just under 1,300 total traps.
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 15:33 · hear it here
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or trying to locate and avoid booby traps.
Dept of Justice · watch from 26:11 · hear it here
Why real speech
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