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Entrap meaning
To catch in a trap or snare. | To lure (someone), either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act.
Example sentences (20)
Twisted bridge trusses weighing thousands of tons still entrap the damaged container ship.
In Israel, many analysts saw Mr. Trump’s invitation as a wily maneuver orchestrated by the seasoned Mr. Netanyahu, who boasts of his close ties to the Trump administration, to entrap the less politically experienced Mr. Gantz.
Sidney Powell, one of Flynn’s lawyers, told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” that FBI agents did their best to hide their investigation and attempted to entrap Flynn.
SSP says, "Accused confessed that they had an argument with the house owner & wanted to entrap or harm him, so they placed bombs at his house.
The theory, as Trump’s allies have described it, is that Obama was involved in an effort to entrap Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI.
Finally, Cohalan believed that elements of the Anglo-Saxon elite in the United States were pro-British and that Britain was trying to entrap the United States into an alliance which would enhance the power of the British Empire.
Consultants who worked on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and exploited the personal Facebook data of millions were caught on camera offering to entrap politicians in compromising positions in order to influence the outcome of elections.
The admissions confirmed that, in the previous year, an elaborate sting operation was set up by BYU campus security officers to entrap gay students.
The LDS General Authorities continued to pressure BYU officials who under the administration of Dallin Oaks began campaigns to entrap students participating in homosexual behavior and purge them from the university.
Even without her Phoenix powers, Rachel is powerful enough to entrap Gladiator in an illusion in order to keep him distracted from battle.
Hutchinson, pp. 118–119 In a successful attempt to entrap her, Walsingham arranged a single exception: a covert means for Mary's letters to be smuggled in and out of Chartley in a beer keg.
In a successful attempt to entrap her, Walsingham arranged a single exception: a covert means for Mary's letters to be smuggled in and out of Chartley in a beer keg.
Infiltration The cipher code of Mary, Queen of Scots Walsingham and Cecil realised that the July 1584 decree by Queen Elizabeth after the Throckmorton Plot that prevented all communication to and from Mary, also impaired their ability to entrap her.
Philip moved off with his army, attempting to entrap and destroy the English force.
The chalk particles entrap some impurities and absorb others.
The city revoked the liquor licenses of the bars, and undercover police officers worked to entrap as many homosexual men as possible.
The demons that rule Limbo City can drag their victims into Limbo and manipulate the landscape to create twists and turns to entrap the protagonist, Dante.
The increased protein binds to the flour to entrap carbon dioxide released by the yeast fermentation process, resulting in a stronger rise.
The plot was discovered by Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and used to entrap Mary for the purpose of removing her as a claimant to the English throne.
Using parents and relatives to entrap members, "deprogrammers" commit grown adults to mental hospitals with the supposed "illness" of holding of a minority religious belief.