How to Use entrap in a Sentence

entrap

verb
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  • We used the net to entrap a school of fish.
  • The air bubbles were entrapped in ice.
  • She felt that she was entrapped in an unhappy marriage.
  • For money, or to entrap all the creeps who’d dare to tune in?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Hamzeh had been cleared to present the defense that he was entrapped.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Curry and the girl exited, while Jones was entrapped in the car.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2023
  • The Tenure of Office Act merely gave them a way to entrap him.
    — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 10 June 2019
  • By taking the plea deal, Miller dropped a claim he was entrapped by West Palm Beach police.
    — Marc Freeman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Often, a cover is all that is needed to entrap heat and keep the plants from frost or freezes.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Netanyahu has claimed that his intent was to entrap Mozes.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2017
  • He was found not guilty, the jury believing that he had been entrapped.
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
  • Also, what about the huge amounts of plastic litter entrapped by the floating screens?
    — David Leveille, USA TODAY, 30 May 2017
  • Defenders crowd the low post and entrap him within a forest of long arms.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The man was thrown off the bike as the SUV slammed into a ditch that runs along Lockwood, causing the vehicle to spin around and entrap the driver.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 12 July 2019
  • Mehta said that if muscle is entrapped, people need surgery right away.
    — Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • One of the five people in the house in the 700 block of Medlock Road became entrapped, officials said on Facebook.
    — Steve Burns, ajc, 3 June 2018
  • Snare traps are among the cruelest tools poachers use to entrap and kill animals.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2018
  • The physical world seems to intrude on the main characters and entrap them.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Piro returned the money three weeks later and argued that he was entrapped.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
  • But, as Cook points out, some games become addictive and entrap you.
    — WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
  • If a child is placed in the stroller unharnessed, his or her body could pass through the opening between the grab bar and seat bottom of the stroller and become entrapped at the neck.
    — Jasmin Radoncic, Good Housekeeping, 20 Oct. 2010
  • This has led some defense attorneys to claim their clients were entrapped.
    — Lisa Rose, CNN, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The close encounters with humpbacks have had their downside, too, as more of the whales have become entrapped in fishing gear.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But even the most sober reporter would be entrapped by this island’s enchantments.
    — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 20 June 2018
  • Their lawyers argue they were entrapped by police, broke no laws, and were simply doing their jobs.
    — Renae Reints, Fortune, 9 July 2018
  • And in the more Dalek-like design, the microbe is entrapped inside the cargo-carrying structure.
    — Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Police said emergency crews were called to the scene on Winton and Kings Run just before 5 p.m. to a report of a person entrapped.
    — Cincinnati.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • After reaching a remote part of the Siberian Arctic, the crew will cut the engine and wait for water to freeze around the vessel, entrapping it.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
  • They’re not easily entrapped, these two, and who can blame them for keeping the fruits of their painstaking labor secret?
    — Melissa Kirsch Andrew Lavallee Melissa Clark, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Her motherly posture, no-nonsense tone and bright facial expressions entrap you in the world of the play.
    — Alexandra King, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017

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