Example sentences for: trapped

How can you use “trapped” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The adjacent George C. Page Museum (5801 Wilshire Boulevard) has on display the skeletons of mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed tigers, and other unfortunate creatures who became trapped in the sticky tar during the last Ice Age.

  • The city council has, says the paper, agreed to hold a special election on requiring all local furriers to put warning tags on their garments that would read: "This product is made with fur from animals that may have been killed by electrocution, gassing, neck breaking, poisoning, clubbing, stomping, or drowning and may have been trapped in steel-jaw, leg-hold traps."

  • The Russians claimed the pause "was intended to allow the thousands of civilians still trapped in Grozny to escape from the fighting" ( NYT ). But, since two of three senior field generals were replaced concurrently, the "reason behind the [suspension] ...

  • Sometimes the isolation makes me feel like I'm trapped in one of those post-holocaust movies from the '50s, where the lead character wakes up to discover that everyone else has been wiped out by killer robots from Venus.

  • At the 91st floor, joined by others from intervening floors, they perceived themselves to be trapped in the stairwell and began descending again.


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