How to Use ensnare in a Sentence

ensnare

verb

• The animals got ensnared in the net.
• The police successfully ensnared the burglar.
• But the rest of us, even the skeptics, are ensnared in the same structures.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
• Lies told first to impress her, then to ensnare her, then to keep her.
  — Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2021
• The plan was to ensnare him using a net shot out of a specialized gun, but the gun did not fire.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• With no one left to bid but Jio, too young to be ensnared in the tax debacle, the pickings may be slim.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• Once ensnared, smaller drones can be dragged away by the DroneHunter.
  — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
• As a young man ensnared in Liberia’s civil war in 1990, Mr Collins cheated death.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• Among those ensnared in the Jungle was a specter of a man who possessed little more than his name: Thomas Rath.
  — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• Elsewhere, Mae ensnared Qimir in a trap, having changed her mind about the mission.
  — Keisha Hatchett, TVLine, 18 June 2024
• Plastics can ensnare and trap marine life or end up in the stomachs of creatures large and small.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2021
• Players who want to leave it behind play on, ensnared by a complex pull.
  — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• Last month, a rescue team saved a migrating humpback whale ensnared in a shark net in the waters off the Gold Coast.
  — Fox News, 17 July 2019
• The bribery scandal has ensnared a number of union and FCA officials.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
• Queens had the charm of the South, conveniences of the northern lifestyle and was close enough to the teeming jazz scene of Harlem without being ensnared.
  — Mia Jackson, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• In both adulation and disgust, the crowds ensnared him, baying for either a touch of their hero, or his blood.
  — SI.com, 12 June 2019
• Once the trio gets in there, however, the tentacles lining the hallways spring to life and ensnare our heroes.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 4 July 2022
• In 2011, his now-defunct News of the World newspaper was ensnared in a phone hacking scandal.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• He was even known to have set up roadblocks for illicit elk, the way others might to ensnare drunk drivers.
  — Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
• But there will be three days of public hearings in the coming week, featuring some of the biggest names ensnared in the inquiry.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• The photograph was the work of a makeup artist — the coup de grace of a straight-out-of-Hollywood ruse agents had devised to ensnare Aslanian.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• He got caught on something — his antlers ensnared in dog run cable, photos show.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2024
• Housing courts are again filling up and ensnaring the likes of 79-year-old Maria Jackson.
  — Michael Casey, Fortune, 17 June 2023
• The whales number only about 400 and can die if ensnared in the gear, which is used to trap one of Maine’s best known and most valuable natural resources.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2020
• When the car finally came to a halt, it was perched precariously on its side, ensnared by a swarm of tires.
  — Tyler Kraft, Indianapolis Star, 8 Sep. 2019
• That means setting more traps, but this time, a different kind—ones with a screen over the bait that ensnare the hornet without drowning it.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 24 Aug. 2020
• Bernie Madoff, whose pyramid scheme ensnared tens of billions of dollars, was sentenced to 125 years in prison.
  — Byleo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 3 Oct. 2023
• Its barbed limbs are adept at ensnaring small crustaceans and fish, breaking them down inside its body.
  — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• The young Tomás is ensnared in the network, while new ombudswoman Catalina Pestana battles to reform the shattered institution, igniting a gripping fight for justice.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
• The move comes as the Biden Administration’s broader student relief efforts remain ensnared in legal challenges.
  — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024