How to Use entrap in a Sentence

entrap

verb
  • 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
  • Mehta said that if muscle is entrapped, people need surgery right away.
    — Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • He was found not guilty, the jury believing that he had been entrapped.
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
  • This has led some defense attorneys to claim their clients were entrapped.
    — Lisa Rose, CNN, 17 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Defenders crowd the low post and entrap him within a forest of long arms.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Snare traps are among the cruelest tools poachers use to entrap and kill animals.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2018
  • Piro returned the money three weeks later and argued that he was entrapped.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
  • Curry and the girl exited, while Jones was entrapped in the car.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 21 May 2024
  • Curry and the girl exited, while Jones was entrapped in the car.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2023
  • Also, what about the huge amounts of plastic litter entrapped by the floating screens?
    — David Leveille, USA TODAY, 30 May 2017
  • But, as Cook points out, some games become addictive and entrap you.
    — WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The vehicle caught on fire, entrapping the boy, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Michael Guise, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Their lawyers argue they were entrapped by police, broke no laws, and were simply doing their jobs.
    — Renae Reints, Fortune, 9 July 2018
  • But even the most sober reporter would be entrapped by this island’s enchantments.
    — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 20 June 2018
  • Teach children to stay away from pool drains or suction devices, which can entrap swimmers’ hair or limbs.
    — Kris Nagel, Fortune Well, 1 July 2024
  • The physical world seems to intrude on the main characters and entrap them.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Grunion may be taken by hand only — no appliances of any kind may be used, and no holes may be dug in the beach to entrap them.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Some workers must buy food from expensive ranch stores using systems of credit that entrap them in debt.
    — Joel E. Correia, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The husband and wife were unconscious and entrapped after the impact.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Nov. 2024
  • There’s also the specter of gamblers trying to entrap minor leaguers.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The Tenure of Office Act merely gave them a way to entrap him.
    — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 10 June 2019
  • Getting young people to trust and depend on the traffickers is part of entrapping them.
    — Anne P. Deprince, The Conversation, 17 Dec. 2025
  • There should not be openings that may entrap a child's head, neck, or body (this poses a risk of asphyxiation).
    — Samson McDougall, Parents, 5 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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