How to Use ensnare in a Sentence

ensnare

verb

• The animals got ensnared in the net.
• The police successfully ensnared the burglar.
• Along with catching this impressive predator, the trap also ensnared an 8-ft.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2018
• Thorpe's scandal had ensnared his friends, his career, and his party's leadership.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 29 June 2018
• And, more than ever, there are too many District Attorneys who can’t wait to ensnare artists in their next gang indictment.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
• The doping scandal that ensnared the Olympics has reportedly included the soccer team, too.
  — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
• State of play: In the final days before Nov. 5, mail-in voting continues to be ensnared in legal battles across the country.
  — Avery Lotz, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
• Members of both parties, including several governors, recently have been ensnared in scandals as well.
  — Dudley Althaus, Washington Post, 1 July 2018
• The provision was offered to help a wave of veterans returning from combat with substance abuse issues who were getting ensnared in the criminal justice system.
  — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
• The exposure led to a reaction in which protein fibers called amyloids, which cause the plaques found in Alzheimer’s patients’ brains, were formed, perhaps to ensnare the viruses as part of immune response.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 June 2018
• On top of that, Grant’s work helps inform officers who take on the roles of the image and video traders themselves, trying to sneakily gather intelligence on whom police can ensnare next.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, The Atlantic, 10 July 2018
• The House farm bill also became briefly ensnared in an unrelated legislative brawl over immigration, which caused it to fail on the first try before passing -- barely -- when it was brought back up last week.
  — Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
• The charges Capella faces represent just one facet of the varied abuse cases that have ensnared the church and that have recently prompted notable gestures from Pope Francis.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 22 June 2018
• 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
• One wave of hacks even ensnared Google’s G Suite Twitter account.
  — Colin Lecher, The Verge, 18 Dec. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024