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

He was entrapping her in an increasingly popular type of financial scam, she said, one that combines the age-old allure of romance with the newer temptation of overnight cryptocurrency riches.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2022

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

Their words and their works are watched with the intent of entrapping them, as complained of in Psalm 17, 9 and elsewhere.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas