How To Use Trapped In A Sentence

She is an enigma wrapped in a riddle trapped in a really bad haircut. Times, Sunday Times
Reconditioned radiator or cooling system refilling ( possibly under filled or air trapped in system ).
It doesn't matter whether their poor credit ratings result from the poor handling of their accounts or from predatory lending practices that trapped them in a mountain of debt.
Apparently some creature called a kobold escaped from wherever my grandfather trapped it, and it has teamed up with Milo. Master of Mirrors
It is thought the hapless cat had been trying to escape after becoming trapped in a sewer. The Sun

Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
Mercury is thermally desorbed from solid samples, trapped on an in-line gold trap, and subsequently determined by cold-vapour atomic absorption spectrometry.
They're trapped, on boats, roofs, porches, surrounded by black and putrid water.
Black belts were strapped tightly across the waists and two of the men had an additional girdle across their broad chests from top left to bottom right.
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She reached the hatchway and checked to see if it was booby-trapped. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
But, more likely, he has decided it is less of a PR risk to leave a journalist eating a solitary crab pasty in the drizzle than to be trapped alone with her and - God forbid - a tongue-loosening bottle of wine.
A businessman from Manchester fears for his relatives trapped in the besieged city.
She kept on struggling to loose herself, groping ineffectually at the deadfall that had entrapped her. SLEEP WHILE I SING
Already-strapped budgets were being cut further and all vacant positions were frozen, leaving a staffing shortage throughout campus.
A mark of the confusion attending the rescue operation came when it was widely reported that five firefighters, trapped for two days in the rubble, had been freed from their concrete tomb.
When Wanda's little brother accidentally shrinks Ms. Frizzle and the kids, they end up trapped in a bathroom with no way out!
The oil is trapped in minuscule cells of porous subsurface rocks in so-called sedimentary basins. What Lies Below?
The council is understood to be concerned that fingers could become trapped when the scooter is folded or unfolded.
The cash-strapped councils need the money to plug leaks in school roofs, shore up unstable walls, install modern heating systems, repair cracked, draughty windows and remove temporary classrooms.
Curious tourists and reporters were often trapped in the melees.
I was helplessly trapped in the cockpit with the aircraft lying on its starboard side.
What is left in ‘her’ wake, however, is an acerbically astute representation of a social environment in which mothers are routinely erased, undervalued, and ‘trapped’ within the domestic milieu.
A cleaner on his way home from work feared he would die as water lapped his chin when he became trapped in his car in Fairfield.
The big worry is that the cash-strapped Irish health service is ill equipped to deal with an epidemic of any form, least of all a potentially fatal virus like SARS.
Coming as it does in a period when many cash-strapped independent schools face the prospect of mergers or closure, he suggests that the initiative reeks more of marketing than a genuine desire to stimulate debate.
The subway froze in its tracks, and thousands of people found themselves trapped in stuffy box cars and pitch-dark tunnels.
And that's another difference: Kate's e-mail "entrapped" Kinsella; Warman's e-mails aren't as subtle -- he doesn't entrap people into uttering racist remarks, he outright plants those racist remarks himself. Kate McMillan's prank - Ezra Levant
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining. Garrison Keillor
Why are so many cash-strapped councils wasting money on this kind of post? Times, Sunday Times
So many bands and vocalists are trapped in the covers universe.
With the unresolved limina of Gertrude's involvement only fuelling his existential crisis, trapped in a tangle of determinacy and authoritative warp, Hamlet has only his affective judgement to fall back. Modality and Hamlet
I wish I had, because my dread about being trapped with cruise-ship bozos would have been replaced by a more accurate dread of being trapped with ocean-liner snobs.
The photo is one of dozens in an online series showing animals trapped in unlikely places. The Sun
If a student is in debt or a bit cash-strapped they shouldn't put themselves at risk.
This exercise will improve neck and spine flexibility, help to relieve trapped nerves and alleviate backache, neck pain, lumbago and mild forms of sciatica.
In places the sound of the river rises up the gravel slope, and thirsty dogs rush down for a drink and cannot reascend; should the owner go down to fetch the dog, he or she will be trapped as well.
I saw a report on CNN where a woman was rescued from being trapped in collapsed roof and wall debris for two days and what struck me was her odd calm as she was carried prone from a certain, crushing death — as well as her matter-of-fact confidence in a God that Robertson says her people forsook ... Archive 2010-02-01
But he fears that is no longer a possibility at the cash-strapped club. The Sun
The dog trapped poorly, ran disappointingly, and when I met Marlyn with the dog at the trackside, I immediately noticed he was over duly distressed.
We "untrapped" her yesterday afternoon, and she was like a little kid let out to play. Polimom Says
So, too, is David trapped when the prophet Nathan uses a story to catch his king's conscience.
A host of countermeasures have been devised and a few tried, such as exercise bikes and treadmills to which crew members are strapped.
This is trapped between the inner and outer shell with an insulating filling divided into compartments for greater efficiency.
When the battlefront stabilised, the four found they were trapped on the wrong side of the trenches. Times, Sunday Times
As such I found myself dressed in black pyjamas and hood with only my eyes visible, creeping along a hallway with a particularly well-polished Ottoman strapped to my back and an alabaster vase full of tulips.
His gut got the best of him, so he unstrapped his short-barrel .357 Magnum revolver, and proceeded slowly.
Carl stared in disbelief at the bodies of some thirty or so children trapped in their seats.
He was trapped in a burning house.
They also receive small doses from the radiation that is naturally trapped around Earth in the ionosphere and the Van Allen radiation belts, particularly near the South Atlantic Anomaly.
The rest were made up of inexperienced trainees and players carrying injuries after the cash-strapped club sold five players on transfer deadline day. The Sun
Trapped, they chose to paddle three miles down the coast to Waimea, where they hoped the deep-water bay would provide a navigable channel.
The fund aims to provide financial assistance to deserving but cash-strapped students, willing to pursue tertiary education in the fields of science and technology.
If air is trapped in the radiator it will escape through the valve and hiss. The Sun
Because there are no timeouts other than a caution period here and there, drivers are strapped into cockpits that are more like saunas for three to four hours.
The slump leaves the Government strapped for cash forcing National Savings to compete aggressively for money.
My poor, strange, stoic little poppet, trapped inside her own body, her own shell of an existence.
Before attaching the hollow item, a hole was punched through the body pot so that the trapped air would vent into the space of the body.
I may be trapped in the Negative Zone with Annihilus and his killer horde of insectoid warriors, but I'll be shouting "flame on" again before you can rub two sticks together. Robert Brenner: "Flame Off!": Hosni Mubarak and the Human Torch
He is a citizen without a country, trapped in a no man's land of fast food outlets and endless shopping opportunities.
They kind of lulled us to sleep in the neutral zone and just trapped us to death all night. Home - BostonHerald.com
Perhaps he smelt gas from his cell and when he came through to investigate he created a spark which ignited the trapped gas. CODE BREAKER
It would also drain resources from strapped states and charities.
One hallway gets smaller as you go, until finally you stand trapped and hunched; a Garden of Exile contains olive trees hidden in huge concrete planters with only the treetops visible, unreachably far overhead.
Rescue teams continued to drill toward six trapped miners Thursday evening and were hopeful of reaching the men with lifelines, mine officials said.
Strapped into the tight confines of the cockpit the driver has only one means of non-verbal expression - wobbling his head.
The vocals are shared alternately between the two singers; both sound like fragile pixies, trapped in a lyrical world of jealous lovers and murderous intent.
The couple were each strapped to instructors for their skydive. The Sun
He wrapped a comms earpiece around the back of his ear and strapped the throat mike around his neck.
Merlin checked the readings of a hand scanner that was strapped to his left arm and grunted.
Rescuers could reach the trapped men today and will then decide if they need to reinforce the walls with steel casing. The Sun
Caught off guard, she is trapped between two foes who want to remove her from the action and she is completely outmanoeuvred. Times, Sunday Times
A chronometer is strapped to their wrist, but subjects reported their free-fall lasted longer than the chronometer recorded. Ann Reynolds: The End of Time
Another family drove past, the children perched on top of a couple of mattresses strapped over another sorry pile of possessions.
He feels like himself, but is trapped in a dog's body, describing in graphic detail the many pungent, metallic, meaty and sickly smells all around him.
It was a force to be proud of: the unit was outfitted with state of the art weaponry, and each had a shield strapped on his back.
Pictorially, for Louis de Roncherolles there is no escape; he is trapped for perpetuity within a closed circle of mourning and death.
Most of the geometer moths captured were in floral lure traps, while both species of Plusiinae were trapped exclusively in floral lure traps.
I've trapped a nerve in my spine.
One man, with a semi-automatic rifle strapped to his back and a pistol in his holster, mingled with supporters of Obama's healthcare reforms.
Ministers have bowed to pressure by weakening a series of expensive regulations after protests from cash-strapped home owners.
In a flash I realised that my propeller was tearing great chunks out of his cockpit and he was quite literally trapped.
When the sea ice receded from the coast of Nunivak Island in Alaska, it left 11 muskoxen trapped on a small islet offshore, doomed to die of starvation or thirst.
Firefighters were searching for survivors trapped under debris in the old quarter of the town of Piera, near Barcelona.
With a small whoosh, one of four 15- millimeter projectiles streaks from the munition pod strapped to his wrist.
The reporter trapped the official into giving away a secret.
She had been trapped into saying something she did not mean.
Newburyport's free-roaming cats were trapped, vaccinated, and spayed or neutered before being returned to the streets.
But the thugs were trapped by an electronic bug planted in their car during a probe into suspected terror links. The Sun
Trapped in the vicious cycle of bondage and slavery, they have nowhere to go and are thrust into a life which reduces them to nothing but robots.
It appeared the car was booby-trapped and the bomb was detonated by remote control.
In attempting to play the shot, Lehmann twisted the injured left knee which he already had strapped and he obviously did further damage.
He has become trapped in a famous person 's lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times
The pods had no artificial gravity fields of their own to provide inertial dampening effects, so the Marines strapped themselves securely to the vertical backboards provided.
Now, Archer is trapped in prison, and Castor now played by Travolta assumes the identity of his nemesis, frees his brother, and takes his place as a high-ranking federal agent.
But it is the love of the critics that gratifies Cooper the most, such as when the Daily Mail eruditely weighs in on one of his choicest works: "In one hilarious snap the moment he mocks a dog trapped behind the glass of someone's front porch is taken with almost human-like humor. ARTINFO: Is This Cat a Great Photographer? The Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon
It was a large tent, as big as a parish marquee, and though both its wide entrances had been brailed back there was no wind to stir the damp air trapped under the high ridge. Sharpe's Tiger
In answer to your question about how the water vapour gets that high, water vapour is thrown into the stratopause by volcanic eruptions and remains trapped.
Often they bounce around on a truck seat, or maybe ride in a saddle scabbard all day strapped to an unruly mustang, acquiring numerous dings and dents.
Many students were trapped by smoke and fire on an upper floor.
If a student is in debt or a bit cash-strapped they shouldn't put themselves at risk.
Plucky firefighter Mark Murphy is back home from his heroic mission to help rescue people trapped in the Algerian earthquake.
Rescuers were using their bare hands to reach the trapped miners.
The hormone increases oil secretions, which can become trapped if dead skin cells are littering the skin's surface.
Workers dug beneath the ruins of the building in a desperate bid to reach any survivors trapped inside.
Firefighters had to rescue four people trapped in their vehicles.
The unnamed man was trapped by the blaze and carried out unconscious by fire crews. The Sun
Let's begin our coverage of the dramatic rescue of nine trapped coal miners in Pennsylvania.
The warheads had been loaded into the cargo bay and strapped down.
As the persons trapped within the cube fall out and go their separate ways this hypercube's disintegration threatens their safety.
They left the fluids overnight to get rid of the air bubbles trapped inside.
The Government was today trying to fend off a torrent of criticism following the latest bail-out for the cash-strapped showpiece attraction.
When I was a small child, I imagined that hell consisted of caves in which the damned were trapped, tortured and burnt.
Trapped in a hot, heaving crowd, I suffer the most terrifying claustrophobia of my life.
I was trapped with my flaky mother in a too-small car loaded with all of our worldly possessions, driving to a forsaken destination.
Aides to Republican Bob Dole had no immediate comment on whether the cash-strapped presidential candidate would campaign by bus.
The anniversary had remained trapped in the unconscious, never reflected on.
Reaching over her opposite shoulder, Ali drew the sword that was strapped there, flicking her wrist to scatter the drops of moisture that had settled on the metal surface.
The roof of the working face caved in suddenly, several miners were trapped.
While those trapped within ponder the reason for the quarantine, work progresses as usual. REVIEW: Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson
They are involved in chasing a suspect before helping free an injured elephant trapped in a snare. The Sun
It's not the coal that is the attraction, but the methane gas trapped in the unmined seams. Times, Sunday Times
My husband would scornfully call me an emo girl trapped in the body of a grown woman.
Some passengers were still strapped into parts of their seats. Times, Sunday Times
I mean--- "Her gaze trapped in crystal green, Honoria fought the urge to gnash her teeth. DEVIL'S BRIDE
They are trapped with the coteries of a dying movement.
He now had their packs and survival gear, machine guns and machetes strapped to him.
Through optical spectroscopy, researchers can probe the trapped particle's size, shape, refractive index and chemical composition.
He strapped the bag onto his bicycle.
They suggest instead providing free hay to economically strapped owners; opening low-cost clinics to geld horses to reduce breeding; even requiring anyone buying a horse to pay an up-front fee to cover euthanasia by a veterinarian when needed. Rethinking Horse Slaughterhouses
Inside the bank building, five robbers dressed in black cloaks and Halloween masks upheld a reign of terror over the helpless customers and bank tellers trapped inside.
The 48-hour ban on outbound mail comes after almost a dozen booby-trapped parcels were discovered in Greece and around Europe since Monday, including mail bombs targeting French and Italian leaders and one that reached the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Greece Halts Mail, Hunts Bomb Suspects
Her mind had not had time to deal with the wider implications of all that sadistic megalomania trapped inside the woman who ruled Medalon. TREASON KEEP
Then it scurries up to the trapped insect, wraps it in a sticky silk cocoon, and stings it to death. Times, Sunday Times
The soldiers entered the dangerously unstable building to search for victims trapped under the rubble.
The godwit made a wide arc to the west to avoid some tourist strapped into a parasail. OFF THE CHART
At these times I would feel bored and listless, trapped inside the walls of my house. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
A rabbit has been calculated to possess one-hundred-million olfactory receptors-small wonder its little schnozz is always twitching, it is trapped in an undulating blizzard of aromatic stimuli-and Marcel "Bunny" LeFever was reputed, with some exaggeration, to be the human equivalent of Peter Cottontail. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
A cash-strapped football club for deaf people will be able to continue thanks to a £2,000 donation
To compound matters, expanding human populations have forced out - and hunted or trapped out - deer predators such as wolves, mountain lions, and bobcats.
Pigeon Tony was unscathed only because he hadn't been at the fistfight and had still been trapped in TV custody. THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
It will have to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in refunds to stranded passengers and compensation to those on the trapped trains. Times, Sunday Times
The container can be increased with a larger fluid bag that is strapped to the thigh. The Sun
He's off work with a trapped nerve in his neck.
But actually what you find in reality is sometimes quite hideous: I was in Nepal hang-gliding and strapped to someone operating it. KiÅ¡a Lala: Mythographers: Recalling The Future, Foretelling The Past
Trapped in the temple , Zett attempted to escape via the Jedi Temple hangar platform.
People in the car park helped to free some of the 33 passengers before the emergency services arrived to release those still trapped. Times, Sunday Times
The volume of gas trapped on these surfaces can be considerable.
The trapped workers could not even telephone for help because the phone was locked in a burglarproof office.
I got to the point where Mary whatshername was trapped in a jail and I gave up.
This reduces the amount of air swallowed that otherwise gets trapped in your intestines and causes bloating. Times, Sunday Times
Here again were oxen, mules and asses, or great bucks such as we now know as eland or kudoo, carried in on rough litters of boughs to be disposed of by parties of savage huntsmen who had shot them with arrows or trapped them in pitfalls. Elissa
Another discussion I had with a friend of mine a long time ago I made the apperception, I said, "blacks have never been mousetrapped. Oral History Interview with Hylan Lewis, January 13, 1991. Interview A-0361. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
The diaphragm does not work as well, lungs become hyperinflated from air trapped in the lungs, and exhalation becomes an active process, resulting in increased work of breathing.
He had an amazing escape when he was trapped under a 30-ton skip for 90 minutes and emerged with hardly a scratch.
Pundits say Drobac is a long shot at best, but the cash-strapped challenger vows to defy the oddsmakers.
Yet this fascination with emotion trapped in pigment is pursued most powerfully and strikingly in British art of the modern and early modern era. Times, Sunday Times
The theory is that deer see the enclosure and while they can easily jump over, they don't want to get trapped in an enclosed area.
Radioactive elements in the sample or in the surrounding environment ionize the atoms in crystalline quartz, and the electrons become trapped by crystal defects.
The visiting team remain trapped in relegation trouble, despite coming into this game after three successive wins. Times, Sunday Times
Or will she leave her archenemy trapped in the bus as it hurtles into the quarry below? The Sun
Five people found themselves on the wrong side of a door equipped with a faulty Stanley lockset and one reported becoming entrapped inside. Locks that won’t unlock recalled by Stanley Security
The cyclist had a big leather bag strapped on the bicycle frame and they kept the set in there.
The couple were each strapped to instructors for their skydive. The Sun
Farmers, huntsmen, village post offices and elderly people trapped in isolated rural communities by the lack of public transport - all are falling victim to the growing urbanisation of our society.
FIVE lucky British mountaineers were rescued by a passing helicopter after getting trapped on melting ice in Greenland. The Sun
Savage highlighted the ecological destruction caused by a field of 3.5m tons of plastic rubbish trapped and swirling in the north Pacific. Times, Sunday Times
In intact cells the probe was trapped both inside intracellular organelles and the cytoplasm.
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Blood mingled with broken glass on the ground where a booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in Sadr City. Explosions Across Baghdad
The wolf was trapped and killed because it epitomized the wilderness that settlers sought to tame and replace with farms and ranches.
She unstrapped the grips from her hands and held them out in Heidi's direction, urging the younger girl to mount the bars herself.
Visit on a Market day and it will inevitably be double parked, with some poor souls trapped there for the day whether or not they want to be.
She'd trapped a mouse behind it and was moaning in frustration at not being able to go in for the kill.
She felt a presence all around her, as if she was being watched, being penned in, being trapped.
Once back in the office they find themselves trapped in a cycle of long hours and sleepless nights.
They became trapped by the rapidly incoming tide and eventually drowned as rescue teams - who could hear Stewart Rushton's calls for help - worked in vain to locate them.
The next thing you know he was being carried off with an oxygen mask strapped on his face. The Sun
Tuna boats, for example, often kill sharks, turtles, and dolphins that get trapped in their nets.
His injured arm was tightly strapped .
I can only think that, trapped between his automatic deference to prescriptive ukases and a cloudy realization that if everybody is using words in an illogical way usage must trump logic, he squares the circle by means of this oxymoron.
Any bird unlucky enough to get trapped would have suffered a lingering death. Times, Sunday Times
While Lobsterman stuck to the Key, trapped and howling, I crawled to it and stabbed it in its soft, armorless parts. Bleeding Violet
Charles Bernouin in 1672 in Regensburgstrapped a rocket to himself, as well as calico wings.
Katrina had grabbed her gun holster and strapped it around her hips, slinging her duel pistols into the holster.
Renewables continue to be dependent on subsidies, which cash-strapped countries are putting under review. Times, Sunday Times
This time the lych-gate was much older, simpler, a sort of timbered open shed with a tiled roof trapped between garden walls. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
Trapped, suffocating, and every other clichéd word one can look up in the thesaurus to describe being stranded in this small terraced island in the Pacific.
What is happening here is that the spiders are weaving webs and the woodlice are being trapped.
During the day, we were trapped in the confines of the Schumann metro stop.
While this wrongful association most likely arose out of sheer laziness, the confusion also reflects the fact that the creator and his creation are, in many ways, two sides of the same coin exhibited no better than the intimidating cutting between the two while trapped in the windmill. Archive 2007-01-01
Fire officers used cutting equipment to free his legs, which were trapped under a steel beam.
Now she was trapped in the darkness for the windows were covered with blinds and curtains.
The passengers were trapped below deck.
He simply strapped himself up and, in a low-scoring match, scored a significant try. Times, Sunday Times
The bank may reboot its bond-buying program, a boon for debt-strapped Eurozone countries squeezed by prohibitively high funding costs.
Trapped in the temple , Zett attempted to escape via the Jedi Temple hangar platform.
As far as I have heard, the passengers, crew and authorities all acted calmly and appropriately," said Ian S. Lustick, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Trapped in the War on Terror," a 2006 book that criticized what he called the exaggerated response to terrorism. Post-gazette.com - News
He has been afloat for three days at a stretch, unable to land safely on any of those rocky islands, trapped on the boat, using a bucket for his latrine, running short of gas, putting life jackets on the carboys of drinking water in anticipation of shipwreck, and then finally limping back to Bahia without having captured a single chuckwalla—which for him represents the penultimate indignity. The Song of The Dodo
Many were trapped in hot and airless carriages for up to three hours before being led to safety by emergency crews. The Sun
Air flowing into your nose carries with it a swarm of complex organic molecules that get trapped in the mucus-rich lining of the nose's inner recesses.

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