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

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

In the stomach, germs must also overcome other deadly barriers such as digestive enzymes, entrapping mucus and the ever-watchful immune system defenses.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023

And some of the seamen resorted to an ingenious device for entrapping the flying fish by night.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael