Below you will find example sentences with "people trapped". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

People Trapped in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: trapped
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27.1 words

Words in this phrase

people trapped

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • people can mean: plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. Very common word
  • trapped can mean: Caught in a trap. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

alluding to people trapped in shelters 1× burhorn said people trapped in the 1× fault the people trapped inside the 1× firefighters locate people trapped in buildings 1× help rescue people trapped by the 1× homes and people trapped in the 1× hundreds of people trapped by the 1× of disparate people trapped inside a 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a search for 1× additionally technology like 1× an operation to 1× burhorn said people 1× eden golan s 1× fire crews from 1×

Common sentence endings:

and burst rivers 1× attacks by hamas 1× by the floods 1× door opens automatically 1× from festival organisers 1× hampering relief efforts 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

rescue 6× two 4× help 4× military 4× lift 3× inside 3× fire 3× rain 3× rescuers 3× debris 2× crews 2× floods 2×

Related phrases

young people homeless people indigenous people ordinary people innocent people older people poor people elderly people fewer people jewish people

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around trapped:

trapped inside 19×

Just before it in the phrase index:

people tend people suffer people shouldn people seeking people republic people participated

Just after it in the phrase index:

people voted people waiting people wanting people willing people worldwide peoples democratic

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

people living people attended people gathered people experiencing people familiar people killed

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "people trapped" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as alluding to people trapped in shelters, burhorn said people trapped in the, rescue, two and help stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with young people, homeless people, indigenous people and trapped inside, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with people trapped

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

These people trapped others as well. (6 words)

A search for people trapped under the rubble is under way. (11 words)

Heavy rain floods southeastern Spain leaving people trapped people in their cars with rescues underway. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

For the safety of people in the lift, it should be mandatory to install an auto rescue device so that in case of power cut or any other fault, the people trapped inside the lift reach the nearest landing and the lift door opens automatically. (45 words)

Eden Golan's 'October Rain' reportedly includes lines such as 'there's no air left to breathe' and 'they were all good children, each one of them', as well as alluding to people trapped in shelters during the attacks by Hamas. (41 words)

Overwhelmed rescuers struggled to save people trapped under the rubble as the death toll from a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria passed 5,000 on Tuesday, with despair mounting and the scale of the disaster hampering relief efforts. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

First responders who rushed to Plum found people trapped under debris and took three people to a hospital.

For the safety of people in the lift, it should be mandatory to install an auto rescue device so that in case of power cut or any other fault, the people trapped inside the lift reach the nearest landing and the lift door opens automatically.

Mr Stanbrook added that officers had been working through the night to rescue people, and said West Midlands Fire Services has sent two boat crews to help rescue people trapped by the floods.

Heavy rain floods southeastern Spain leaving people trapped people in their cars with rescues underway.

Japan’s military scrambled Sunday (Oct 13) to rescue people trapped by flooding in the aftermath of powerful Typhoon Hagibis, which killed at least four people, caused landslides and burst rivers.

Rescuers have moved in to help people trapped by rapidly rising flood water in the northern city of Pemba, home to 200,000 people, a United Nations spokesman said, as Kenneth dumped more rain on the region.

An operation to free people trapped under the truck was underway, and there were fears the deal toll might rise, Migori county commander Mark Wanjala said.

Burhorn said people trapped in the desert have limited reception, making it almost impossible to get news on weather conditions or receive updates from festival organisers.

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Overwhelmed rescuers struggled to save people trapped under the rubble as the death toll from a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria passed 5,000 on Tuesday, with despair mounting and the scale of the disaster hampering relief efforts.

People trapped inside a Gaza church where two Christian women were reportedly killed by sniper fire are living in fear that they will be next, the BBC reports.

That gave director Jonathan Lynn license to riff on all of those classic tales of disparate people trapped inside a single location with a murderer lurking among them.

The government has deployed the military to help rescue hundreds of people trapped by the flooding, which occurred near Mount Hanang in the north.

The military said it had deployed more than 25 boats to rescue people trapped by floodwater, while seven helicopters and a military transport plane were on standby.

These people trapped others as well.

The town of Wynne in northeastern Arkansas was also devastated, and officials reported two dead there, along with destroyed homes and people trapped in the debris.

Time is running out as rescuers race to locate and save five people trapped in a submersible that vanished during a tour of the Titanic wreckage on Sunday morning.

Additionally, technology like thermal imaging cameras helps firefighters locate people trapped in buildings more quickly, saving more lives.

A search for people trapped under the rubble is under way.

Eden Golan's 'October Rain' reportedly includes lines such as 'there's no air left to breathe' and 'they were all good children, each one of them', as well as alluding to people trapped in shelters during the attacks by Hamas.

Fire crews from Douglas were called out this morning (15 January) to help people trapped after a two-vehicle road traffic collision at the junction of Cronk Ny Mona and Johnny Watterson's Lane.

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