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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    Lyopidus cried out in his fear that it had been the Sky that drove him to entrap his brother, and he called on the Sky to protect him, but there was no answer.†  (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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