- present participle of entrap.
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
He was entrapping her in an increasingly popular type of financial scam, she said, one that combines the age-old allure of romance with the newer temptation of overnight cryptocurrency riches.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2022
A more fatal snare for entrapping a benighted traveller could scarcely have been devised.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
