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

Library of Congress Photo The first colonists saw the Indians engaged in fishing practices that included spearing, luring with firelight, and entrapping in staked-off enclosures.

From The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia by Wharton, James