How to Use entrapment in a Sentence
entrapment
noun- His lawyer argued that he was a victim of police entrapment.
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The most chilling feature of the videos is the suggestion of entrapment.
— Nathan Hodge, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024 -
The Russians have less reason to feel betrayed—and the Chinese have less reason to fear entrapment.
— Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2024 -
Head entrapment is more common in premature deliveries because the baby’s head is typically bigger than their body.
— Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 25 July 2024 -
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
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