entrapping
Example Sentences
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The source he was meeting turned out to be an FSB agent tasked with entrapping him.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
A few harmless ceremonies; we are not entrapping you; we are not using your words against yourselves; we tell you the meaning beforehand, the whole meaning of them.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman
