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Example sentences for "entrapped"

Lexicographically close words:
entrancing; entrancingly; entrant; entrants; entrap; entrapping; entrar; entraron; entraunce; entre
  1. Never was a sly old fox so perfectly entrapped by a mere lad.

  2. Walpole, who had been bitten by Macpherson, and was writhing under the exposure so agonizing to his aristocratic pride, was most completely entrapped again by Chatterton.

  3. She couldn't understand it at all, and may have had misgivings that she was being entrapped into some sort of ritual of a Masonic nature.

  4. Try to imagine, dear, for instance, that your sister had been entrapped into a false marriage by this man, and that he discarded her because he was jealous of your husband.

  5. Was I entrapped at the instigation of this man?

  6. I had been entrapped for my watch and jewellery--like many another medical man in London has been before me; doctors being always an easy prey for thieves.

  7. And am I to be entrapped into a plan like that?

  8. One can understand the feelings of a man entrapped by such base means.

  9. Will she not feel disgust at the man who entrapped her into shame?

  10. Vetch comprehended the devilish scheme of the monster who had entrapped five of his fellow-beings to aid him by their deaths to his own safety, and held aloof.

  11. The other goats bounded off at this sudden elevation of their leader, and three more were entrapped at a little distance.

  12. As soon as this bird arrives in May, the bushes on which it most frequently perches must be observed; these are very few, and on them the lime twigs must be placed; it is often entrapped within a quarter of an hour.

  13. They may be entrapped in autumn with spring traps and springes, by hanging elderberries before; but, after every precaution, they generally break their legs.

  14. They are so silly, or so confiding, that they will even allow themselves to be taken close by the bird-catcher, who is collecting their entrapped companions.

  15. Nothing transpired, however, to confirm this suspicion, and Tim could not be entrapped into any confession or admission tending to support it in the smallest degree.

  16. Apparently, it was from him that the Onondagas learned that the invitations of Onontio were a snare; that he had entrapped their relatives, and was about to fall on their Seneca brethren with all the force of Canada.

  17. It may be remembered that some of the Iroquois entrapped at Fort Frontenac had been given to their Christian relatives in the mission villages.

  18. Footnote: Ourehaoue was not one of the neutrals entrapped at Fort Frontenac, but was seized about the same time by the troops on their way up the St. Lawrence.

  19. The Jews, moreover, were not ignorant of the false and deceitful ways in which Torquemada entrapped his victims.

  20. Albo had acknowledged the existence of rudimentary revelations previous to that of Sinai, and to avoid being entrapped by the consequences of his own system he put forward a peculiar distinction.

  21. E37] It was a Colonel Hagedorn that entrapped and arrested Dr.

  22. E37b] It was a Colonel Hagedorn that entrapped and arrested Dr.

  23. The night on which Heffernan entrapped him by the trick already mentioned, was quoted as the eventful moment of his change.

  24. In my indignation at hearing this, I entirely forgot the rash words of encouragement which the Captain had entrapped me into speaking to him.

  25. My friend had been entrapped into sending me an anonymous letter.

  26. He was the author of the memorable forgery by which the Landgrave Philip of Hesse had been entrapped into his long imprisonment.

  27. Cornbury; "then it is to you, you devil, that I am indebted for being entrapped this way.

  28. We could dare nothing here, and we sat down in the dim light to remember that Valerie St. Antoine and Joan d'Izambert were still the "guests" of the villain who had entrapped us.

  29. Was it in order to meet the man who was to be entrapped and killed?

  30. Yes, my poor Armida may have been entrapped by them.

  31. Sir John of Desmond, being invited to an amicable conference by the Lord Barry, was entrapped by an English force under Captain Zouch, in the woods surrounding Castle Lyons, and put to death on the spot.

  32. Thou canst not wish that we should be smothered here; and if thou art a soldier, thou wilt not put to the sword two knights of name, who have been most unfairly entrapped by a set of boors.

  33. I have been entrapped by Kirk into a network of mystery and tragedy, and have lost my wife, who, I fear, is in the hands of conspirators.

  34. He had entrapped me, for some hidden reason of his own, and now he held me in a hateful bondage.

  35. Hereward entrapped them both, and kept them in captivity, much to the joy of the monks of Peterborough, and the vassals of Ivo, as we have elsewhere noted.

  36. A young one thus entrapped speedily becomes tame, and is much prized, as an interesting pet, by the white inhabitants.

  37. We must not be entrapped by him," said my father; "and I will show my zeal by offering to assist in building a chapel in the neighbourhood.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "entrapped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.