trap
Example Sentences
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Access to the wave was cut off for several months earlier this year after the death of a 33-year-old Munich woman who became trapped under the surface while surfing at night.
From Barron's
A trap meant to capture a bear that’s been under an Altadena home for a month was sprung but was triggered by the wrong beast.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet Kip feels trapped by Scott’s insistence that they keep their romance a secret — a tale as old as the myth of Cupid and Psyche.
From Salon
Some of the most promising quantum computing designs use trapped ions or trapped neutral atoms to store information.
From Science Daily
People in Lytle Creek, another mountainous community in the San Gabriel Mountains, were trapped after a bridge connecting parts of the town was covered with water and possibly destroyed.
From Los Angeles Times
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