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
“It feels less entrapping than other social media does.”
From New York Times • May 10, 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
To dive upon him meant too much chance of a dash into the entrapping branches.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry
