trip wire

Trip wire was found on several of the approaches to its set.

The trip wire was set across the trail of your blood.

The trigger had been a simple one, a trip wire.

"And he's smart enough to be looking for trip wires."

Have Adams set them on trip wires about a third of the way up the slope.

The trip wires were not difficult to negotiate once he had located them.

Be very hard - they could only do so by a fluke and I've set up a couple of trip wires.

Also, at the moment, they made handy posts for the trip wires.

"If the people after me have some of your training, they might just be expecting a trip wire.

He continued down the trail and reset the trip wire.

He still used the light, worried more now about trip wires than detection gear.

Still, it is apparent that he stepped on some Congressional trip wires.

The mine was either command-detonated or set off by trip wires.

If it hadn't been Red out there, another man would have sprung the trip wire.

Everything looked perfect- the slightest pressure on the trip wire would set off the grenades.

The things that act as signals are their intuitively created trip wires.

"Like I'm going to let you handle a live cap hooked to a trip wire," said the old man.

Somebody had snapped a couple of his trip wires.

Movement was very difficult due to trip wires, dry bamboo and the darkness.

"Now the war has become like a slow fuse, or a trip wire.

He didn't see the trip wire until he was on it.

He saw the branch lying on the trip wire.

Placed hidden on a tree or bush, the trip wire extends over a much larger area.

That would in turn reduce its "trip wire" effect.

The section leader dropped as though he had fallen over a trip wire, and the two men following him ran into the same burst.