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

In the stomach, germs must also overcome other deadly barriers such as digestive enzymes, entrapping mucus and the ever-watchful immune system defenses.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2023

Many pits were active over thousands of years, entrapping countless animals whose remains muddled together.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023

His Act III prelude had the thick texture of molasses, entrapping and hopeless.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2021

The passages were lighted by electricity, and the dynamo might have gone wrong, causing the darkness, or it might be an entrapping scheme.

From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.