Sample Sentences for
entrapment
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entrapment as in:  claimed legal entrapment

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She was acquitted on an entrapment defense.
entrapment = lured into wrongdoing by authorities
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    The defense argued that the police used entrapment to get her to commit the crime.
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    The undercover agent was accused of trying to entrap the suspect by repeatedly pressuring her to commit a crime she otherwise wouldn’t have considered.
    entrap = lure into wrongdoing by authorities
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    We discussed this problem of character assassination and entrapment with Dr. King and Dick Gregory and Whitney Young and other men active in civil rights.  (source)
    entrapment = being lured into wrongdoing
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    This girl," he continued, looking at me, "knew no more than you, Wood, of the disgusting secret: she thought all was fair and legal and never dreamt she was going to be entrapped into a feigned union with a defrauded wretch, already bound to a bad, mad, and embruted partner!†  (source)
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    The stairwells were huge, open caverns that spiraled upward for several floors, providing ample opportunity to hurl flying objects, dump liquids, or entrap us in dark corners.†  (source)
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    A troop of baboons ran with arched tails flying as they zigzagged, not yet understanding their entrapment.†  (source)
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    'You villain,' said I, 'what do you mean by entrapping me into your schemes?†  (source)
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    But when effects stretch so far she should not go and do that which entraps a man if he is honest, or herself if he is otherwise.†  (source)
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    They were entrapped in an educational system that told them exactly what to do and exactly how to do it, but sparks of individuality shone through.†  (source)
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    She had almost forgotten her early desire to entrap him into loving her, so she could hold the whip over his insolent black head.†  (source)
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    On the one hand she wished this kind of entrapment on no one.†  (source)
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    Notwithstanding the aversion with which I regarded the idea of entrapping him into any disclosure he was not prepared to make voluntarily, I should have taken him up at this point, but for the strange proceedings in which I saw him engaged; whereof his putting the lemon-peel into the kettle, the sugar into the snuffer-tray, the spirit into the empty jug, and confidently attempting to pour boiling water out of a candlestick, were among the most remarkable.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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entrapment as in:  entrapment in a spider's web

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She realized too late that the job offer was a kind of entrapment, tying her to long hours with no real advancement.
entrapment = trap
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    The insect was entrapped in the spider's web.
    entrapped = trapped
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    The enemy, far from trying to repel him, welcomed him in, so he could be thoroughly entrapped before they destroyed him.  (source)
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    A feeling of marching through a great maze; a sense of entrapment mixed with mystery.  (source)
    entrapment = being trapped
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    We trained them secretly, using codes, methods of transport, entrapment and killing-even weapons Command Saigon knew nothing about.  (source)
    entrapment = trapping
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    The plunge into this pit I had avoided by the merest of accidents, I knew that surprise, or entrapment into torment, formed an important portion of all the grotesquerie of these dungeon deaths.  (source)
    entrapment = being trapped
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