Braithwaite thought about the question as though a trap lay within it, then decided it was safe to answer.

Tyke walked casually to where the closed traps lay.

When their traps lay ready for emplacement, they slept while Kit kept watch.

"Lunarians would have had a sense for whatever traps lay in wait," Kaino said.

Why not, I suggested after a time, lay a trap?

Knowing how paranoid Cardassians tended to be, she suspected a few traps lay in store for them.

There might be a still-burning coal over there, but traps lay in between.

But a trap lay waiting for us at Saqqara.

A trap, once set, can lay there waiting long after the man who set it is dead.

The spell was set, the trap laid, and there was no point in remaining.