trapped
Example Sentences
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The border closure in October left thousands of Lithuanian trucks trapped in Belarus.
From Barron's
He also promised to push ahead with reforming the welfare system, which he said had "trapped people in poverty" and "wrote young people off as too ill to work".
From BBC
Too many families are trapped between impossible choices: Stay home and lose income, or work just to pay for care.
From Salon
It was only barely refloated by rescue vessels before new ice formed, which would have trapped it over winter.
“If the alarm had gone off, there wouldn’t have been so many people trapped inside,” Chung said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
