How to Use entrapment in a Sentence

entrapment

noun

• His lawyer argued that he was a victim of police entrapment.
• This course takes an in-depth look at fire entrapment and escape.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2021
• In suburbia, the plight of Franzen’s housewives is of a piece with their entrapment.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2022
• The special traces their plight from their entrapment to the last rescue, 18 days later.
  — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 13 July 2018
• The common thread is entrapment: the soldiers cannot escape the trenches, the woman cannot escape the house.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
• The sense of entrapment in the show is literal and emotional.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2022
• So, yes, that's entrapment, and that's something that we're not supposed to be involved with.
  — Fox News, 7 June 2018
• In contrast, in the Rockies, 61 percent of the deaths were flush drownings and just 31 percent were entrapments.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2020
• The defense argued these statements could help prove the entrapment claim.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2022
• The whole thing stinks of entrapment, though the curious question was how the Flynn defense team got the details.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
• The allure of the boxed cat is perhaps a kind of entrapment in its own right—time out of our days, space taken up in our brains, while the felines are none the wiser.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 12 May 2021
• Johnson is just the first of the attorneys for the three men charged in Jackson County who has filed such a motion on entrapment.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2021
• As the war grinds across the rolling plains and forests of Eastern Ukraine, the maneuvering of troops has in large part evolved into attempts at entrapment.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2022
• But with the major characters free from their entrapment in the next two films, the trilogy loses much of its charm.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The state has called for a hearing on the entrapment allegation before the judge rules on any dismissal.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2021
• Judges have also raised concern about entrapment and whether the stings went too far by luring suspects with fake plots.
  — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2017
• Judges also have raised concerns about entrapment and whether the stings went too far by luring suspects with fake plots.
  — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
• In the warm waters of the Southeast, 74 percent of the deaths were classified as entrapment, and just 15 percent as flush drowning.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2020
• The president, echoed by his officials, was trying to blame the Afghans for their own entrapment.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
• The impact from the crash caused two vehicles to go off the roadway, and it was reported to police as an entrapment.
  — Frank Abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, 27 Mar. 2018
• There was reported entrapment, but a search of the building didn’t find anyone.
  — Indianapolis Star, 3 May 2018
• Dating apps have been used for entrapment in India, Senegal, and Kenya.
  — Matt Burgess, Wired, 7 Mar. 2022
• The video shows images of the aftermath following the bear's entrapment.
  — Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 3 June 2023
• The entrapments of reenactments and the seemingly endless cycle of self-loathing that can ensue are too high a price to pay.
  — Larry Ruhl, Longreads, 12 Apr. 2018
• The threat of domestic entrapment was urgent, the fight ardent.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2022
• Might there be a graceful way to extricate oneself from entrapment of this sort?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2022
• In the last month, Frank's lawyer had filed multiple requests with the court to advance his entrapment defense — almost all of which were shot down.
  — Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
• The water level in the creek was very low, so no vehicles were submerged and there was no entrapment, police said.
  — Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
• A lot of the defendants are convicted, but there is always the specter of entrapment hanging over the prosecution’s head.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
• But Abe was now more worried about abandonment than entrapment.
  — Michael Green, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024