entraps
- present tense form of entrap (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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When Perla rejects Ulises’ practiced advances, he enlists the aid of her put-upon niece, who longs to escape both her demanding aunt and the decaying mansion that entraps her.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
FBI Director Kash Patel said "you cannot create a scenario that illegally entraps and puts law enforcement in harm's way."
From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026
This infinite circle of events and eventualities entraps us, so that within every facet of the fight over the company’s past and future ripples a sense of inevitability.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2021
Instead, what it shows is that rather than open doors for students, debt entraps them.
From Salon • May 8, 2021
Yonder is Bettie and my one chance of manhood; and blind chance, just the machination of a tiny microbe, entraps me as I tread toward all this.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch
