trapping

Example Sentences

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That’s because there are several stations on the border in Southern California, he said, that are collecting data, monitoring for any incidents of the parasitic fly and trapping them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

City information officer Jay Pelayo told news agency AFP that the building's walls and scaffolding surrounding it had buckled, likely trapping people in a pile of debris.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

The study shows that the singular dispersion equation produces narwhal-shaped wavefunctions capable of trapping light at remarkably small scales within lossless dielectric materials.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

She removed legendary New Zealand all-rounder Suzie Bates lbw for 12 in her final ODI appearance, before trapping both Georgia Plimmer and skipper Melie Kerr in front for seven and one respectively.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

She feels the entirety of the circus radiating around her, as though a net has been thrown over it, trapping everything within the iron fence, fluttering like a butterfly.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern