trapped
Example Sentences
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Rising service costs and disputes about who was responsible have left the brothers feeling "trapped" in an "unsellable" home.
From BBC
His friend, a 23-year-old sophomore politics major at Bates College, was trapped in the same visa freeze.
On Tuesday, HormuzTracker, which provides a Strait of Hormuz shipping-disruption dashboard, showed that there are around 2,500 vessels still trapped inside the Persian Gulf, with 400 waiting outside of the strait.
From MarketWatch
The bus was transporting Metro maintenance workers back to their bus division when it became trapped, according to a Metro spokesperson.
From Los Angeles Times
Night-time footage released by the Iranian Red Crescent shows rescuers removing fallen masonry to try to reach Berivan's trapped mother as she begs to know: "Is my daughter alive?"
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
