entrap

Chip makers use it as a carrier gas to entrap and transport certain chemicals, transfer energy to chemical reactants and cool silicon wafers during production.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026

Occultists have learned that by deploying sound vibrations they can summon angels from the cosmic ether and entrap them on earth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

A man takes his daughter to a pop concert, only to discover when he arrives that the whole thing is a sting operation set up by the FBI to try and entrap a dangerous criminal.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024

It sent representatives to the West to entrap Russian exiles under the pretext of helping the resistance movement.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024

Or how those hands, which could set the most intricate of snares, could as easily entrap me.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

When Perla rejects Ulises’ practiced advances, he enlists the aid of her put-upon niece, who longs to escape both her demanding aunt and the decaying mansion that entraps her.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

FBI Director Kash Patel said "you cannot create a scenario that illegally entraps and puts law enforcement in harm's way."

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

Sterling’s performance art slowly becomes indistinguishable from the Kafkaesque legal system that entraps the performers.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023

The film, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier, tells the story of a playboy, the detective who entraps him and the detective’s daughter.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2021

It has been urged that in other stories a husband entraps and betrays the brother of his wife.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers

Lindberg claimed he was entrapped by the commissioner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

"It's very, very concerning when you have such a volume of people entering an area and could end up being entrapped by a wildfire," Mr McMullen said.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025

They’re not easily entrapped, these two, and who can blame them for keeping the fruits of their painstaking labor secret?

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2023

To see Sofia Coppola, who specializes in quiet, precise examinations of the interior lives of overlooked women entrapped by privilege, take on Priscilla’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me” is just too perfect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

Even a Negro, entrapped by ignorance and exploitation—as I had been—could, if he had the will and the love for it, learn to read and understand the world in which he lived.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

In dressing rooms, a size-XS shirt would go over my head instead of entrapping me like a straitjacket.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2024

Critics have accused federal agents of entrapping a group men who were down on their luck after doing prison time.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2024

Many pits were active over thousands of years, entrapping countless animals whose remains muddled together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

Nevertheless, the lies, deceptions and sudden strokes of honesty and performative goodwill have become so frequent as to be inseparable at this point, entrapping Sarah in a perpetual guessing game.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2021

Entrap′ment, act of entrapping: the state of being entrapped: Entrap′per.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various