How to Use entrapment in a Sentence

entrapment

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  • His lawyer argued that he was a victim of police entrapment.
  • Judges have also raised concern about entrapment and whether the stings went too far by luring suspects with fake plots.
    — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2017
  • Police think overeating may have been the reason for the furry creature's entrapment.
    — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The common thread is entrapment: the soldiers cannot escape the trenches, the woman cannot escape the house.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
  • In addition to the commercial trade, seahorses have to contend with habitat loss and entrapment in shrimp-trawl nets.
    — Jani Actman, National Geographic, 3 July 2016
  • In addition to the commercial trade, seahorses have to contend with habitat loss and entrapment in shrimp-trawl nets.
    — National Geographic, 3 July 2016
  • But storage chests can also result in entrapment and suffocation.
    — Beth Anne MacAluso, Redbook, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Facebook has become the new AOL, for its similar entrapments.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired News, 21 May 2015
  • Initial reports of entrapment proved unfounded and no injuries were reported in the pre-dawn inferno.
    — Real Time Desk, Philly.com, 16 May 2017
  • To allow the government to perform such a bait and switch would be an outrageous form of entrapment that the Due Process Clause should prevent.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
  • In order to avoid a defendant raising an entrapment defense, the stings are supposed to target only suspects who are already experienced robbers.
    — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • This course takes an in-depth look at fire entrapment and escape.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2021
  • In suburbia, the plight of Franzen’s housewives is of a piece with their entrapment.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The special traces their plight from their entrapment to the last rescue, 18 days later.
    — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 13 July 2018
  • The sense of entrapment in the show is literal and emotional.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • So, yes, that's entrapment, and that's something that we're not supposed to be involved with.
    — Fox News, 7 June 2018
  • In contrast, in the Rockies, 61 percent of the deaths were flush drownings and just 31 percent were entrapments.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The defense argued these statements could help prove the entrapment claim.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The whole thing stinks of entrapment, though the curious question was how the Flynn defense team got the details.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • The allure of the boxed cat is perhaps a kind of entrapment in its own right—time out of our days, space taken up in our brains, while the felines are none the wiser.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 12 May 2021
  • Johnson is just the first of the attorneys for the three men charged in Jackson County who has filed such a motion on entrapment.
    — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2021
  • As the war grinds across the rolling plains and forests of Eastern Ukraine, the maneuvering of troops has in large part evolved into attempts at entrapment.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2022
  • But with the major characters free from their entrapment in the next two films, the trilogy loses much of its charm.
    — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The state has called for a hearing on the entrapment allegation before the judge rules on any dismissal.
    — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Judges also have raised concerns about entrapment and whether the stings went too far by luring suspects with fake plots.
    — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • In the warm waters of the Southeast, 74 percent of the deaths were classified as entrapment, and just 15 percent as flush drowning.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The president, echoed by his officials, was trying to blame the Afghans for their own entrapment.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The impact from the crash caused two vehicles to go off the roadway, and it was reported to police as an entrapment.
    — Frank Abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Viewers who had followed the viral moment breathed a sigh of relief, and although these orcas were lucky, ice entrapment remains a hazard for the species.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Gaza, under blockade 16 years, is worse, with permanent entrapment in one of the most crowded places on Earth and impoverishment by a 16-year blockade.
    — Steve Koppman, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024

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