- present participle of entrap.
entrapping
Example Sentences
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In dressing rooms, a size-XS shirt would go over my head instead of entrapping me like a straitjacket.
From Slate ● Jul. 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
His Act III prelude had the thick texture of molasses, entrapping and hopeless.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
Tarleton defeated! and by the rude soldier he had been so sure of entrapping!
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
