entrapped; entrapping; entraps
Examples of entrap in a Sentence
We used the net to entrap a school of fish.
The air bubbles were entrapped in ice.
She felt that she was entrapped in an unhappy marriage.
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In February 2021, a Martian meteorite with the planet’s atmosphere entrapped in it went under the hammer at Christie’s auction house.
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Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 16 July 2025
The second method for estimating water in the parent melt uses the melt entrapped in minerals of CE6 basalts.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 July 2025
She was also found guilty of disorderly conduct for supposedly trying to seduce an undercover policewoman named Margaret Leonard, who’d been assigned to entrap her.
—Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
Expert warns parents of online criminal network entrapping minors with 'lovebombing,' fake relationships
Dr. Stephen Boyce, CEO and president of the Cyber Doctor and former forensic analyst with the FBI, discussed the '764' network with Fox News Digital.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025
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Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 16 July 2025
The second method for estimating water in the parent melt uses the melt entrapped in minerals of CE6 basalts.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 July 2025
She was also found guilty of disorderly conduct for supposedly trying to seduce an undercover policewoman named Margaret Leonard, who’d been assigned to entrap her.
—Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
Expert warns parents of online criminal network entrapping minors with 'lovebombing,' fake relationships
Dr. Stephen Boyce, CEO and president of the Cyber Doctor and former forensic analyst with the FBI, discussed the '764' network with Fox News Digital.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025
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“Entrap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entrap. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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entrap
transitive verb
en·trap
in-ˈtrap 
entrapped; entrapping
: to cause (a person) to commit a crime by means of undue persuasion, encouragement, or fraud in order to later prosecute
police entrap him into violating the literal terms of a criminal statute—W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr.
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