trapping

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Some liminal spaces, as in the case of the “Backrooms,” seem to take on a life of their own, trapping their inhabitants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

She said worsening economic pressures were trapping many people in debt they had little realistic prospect of escaping.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

City information officer Jay Pelayo told news agency AFP that the building's walls and scaffolding surrounding it had buckled, likely trapping people in a pile of debris.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

The study shows that the singular dispersion equation produces narwhal-shaped wavefunctions capable of trapping light at remarkably small scales within lossless dielectric materials.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

I don’t say anything more, though, because guilt at my selfishness moves in, trapping the words I want to say in a ball of shame that gets stuck in my throat.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam