Sample sentences for ENTRAPMENT

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law: a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tempted or tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials

She was acquitted on an entrapment defense.

This man here was unable to entrap him; His defenses are sound when such snares enwrap him.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
The enemy, far from trying to repel him, welcomed him in, so he could be thoroughly entrapped before they destroyed him.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
On the one hand she wished this kind of entrapment on no one.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
In the early days, a number of effective men were entrapped in situations that either damaged them personally or ruined their reputations.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
The morning that Margaret had spent with Miss Avery, and the afternoon she set out to entrap Helen, were the scales of a single balance.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
A feeling of marching through a great maze; a sense of entrapment mixed with mystery.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
They were to get behind the redcoats and entrap them in the Hollow Way.
David G. McCullough -- 1776
Isabel couldn't rid herself of a suspicion that they were playing somehow at cross-purposes—that the simplicity of each had been entrapped.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
The foolish scissors have slipped too far over the knuckles, it seems, and Hercules holds out his entrapped fingers hopelessly.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
Or how if the Queen of the Underworld knew all about the signs and had made the Knight learn this name simply in order to entrap them?
C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair
Do you suggest, Miss Fairfax, that I entrapped Ernest into an engagement?
Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest
A troop of baboons ran with arched tails flying as they zigzagged, not yet understanding their entrapment.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
And both male and female must contend with the family instinct by which each seeks to entrap and control the other.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
Could she have been entrapped?
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
Here in her hairs The painter plays the spider, and hath woven A golden mesh t' entrap the hearts of men Faster than gnats in cobwebs: but her eyes!
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice
Violent urges that entrap him each morning and each night and for which he knows only one cure.
Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
We trained them secretly, using codes, methods of transport, entrapment and killing-even weapons Command Saigon knew nothing about.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
Her entrapped hand was on the table, but she had already put her other hand behind her waist.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

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