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Example sentences for "trapped"

Lexicographically close words:
trapezium; trapezius; trapezoid; trapezoidal; trappean; trapper; trappers; trappes; trapping; trappings
  1. Bob's share of the furs that he had trapped himself he very generously insisted upon giving to Dick and Ed and Bill.

  2. She would not have told this fact, had I not trapped her into admitting it; that was obvious to everybody in this courtroom that day.

  3. They knew from bitter experience how union men were handled when they were trapped in their halls.

  4. McInerney was one of those trapped in the hall.

  5. An' as fur varmints, thar's none of 'em that I haint trapped an' fit.

  6. I never trapped on that river yet without losin' somethin'.

  7. How they are trapped by the Indians in the Hudson's Bay Country.

  8. They may be successfully trapped in the following manner: Strike a line between the two most recent earth mounds, and midway between them remove a piece of the sod.

  9. They are trapped in large numbers, as described on page 75, and are hunted with tame geese as decoys, the hunter being secreted behind a screen or covert, and attracting the game by imitating their cries.

  10. Trapped furs" and "shot furs" are terms of considerable significance in the fur trade, and anyone who wishes to realize from a profitable sale of his furs, should use his gun as little as possible.

  11. The Skunk is trapped in a variety of ways; and as the animal is not cunning, no great skill is required.

  12. He was undoubtedly trapped again, but how had the trick been accomplished?

  13. He felt like a trapped rat, still gasping for breath, his body quivering from exertion.

  14. Mike took one comprehensive glance at the scene, at the overturned chair, the half-open window, the trapped man crouching motionless against the further wall.

  15. Wilson and others rode forth to be neatly trapped and captured at the Chino; and where the outlaw Irving later encamped.

  16. Born at New Orleans as early as 1809, Walters had trapped and traded in the Rocky Mountains, then teamed for awhile between Santa Fe and neighboring points.

  17. Shrews were present on the Reservation but were not trapped often enough to permit study.

  18. The ratio of trapped juveniles to adults trapped was a poor indicator of reproductive activity.

  19. Since 1948 only one vole has been trapped in the more extensive hillside association characterized by a mixture of big bluestem, little bluestem and side-oats grama.

  20. Family groups were also noted, as pairs were often trapped which seemed to be mother and offspring.

  21. Estimates of population of the harvest mouse were of doubtful validity in summer because it was readily trapped only in winter and early spring.

  22. The mean total range used by an individual during the entire time it was being trapped showed a slight difference between the sexes.

  23. The three associated species which were most commonly trapped were Sigmodon hispidus, Reithrodontomys megalotis and Peromyscus leucopus.

  24. In a relict area, voles were trapped in a lowland association dominated by big bluestem.

  25. Many individuals marked in late spring were not trapped again until late autumn although presumably they remained on the area.

  26. Voles were taken in all ungrazed and unmown grasslands trapped in eastern Kansas, although some of the areas were not used at all seasons of the year nor in years having a low population of Microtus.

  27. In March only one individual was captured and after that none was trapped until August, 1952, when a single subadult male was captured.

  28. All of these exclosures were trapped and voles were taken in only two of them.

  29. I have found and killed them in many parts of England and Wales, but have seen and trapped far more in the west of Ireland.

  30. The badger is by no means rare in the west of Clare, where I have trapped several.

  31. Custer divined that the dash of Lee's advance was a mask for the infantry, and by a movement that would have done credit to Murat or Ney, caught Kershaw astride the river and trapped him completely.

  32. Four confederate cavalrymen undertook the duty of escorting myself and a young Sixth cavalryman who had been trapped in the same way to the rear through the woods.

  33. Then, even by the unaccustomed daylight, Dworn recognized first one landmark and then another, and knew they were approaching the spot where he had been trapped last night.

  34. We've got to be strict, now that the cursed night-fliers are everywhere and it's been so long since we trapped a presentable male.

  35. I say to those who are on welfare, and especially to those who have been trapped on welfare for a long time: For too long our welfare system has undermined the values of family and work, instead of supporting them.

  36. I shall urge special methods and special funds to reach the hundreds of thousands of Americans that are now trapped in the ghettos of our big cities and, through Head Start, to try to reach out to our very young, little children.

  37. I may be the only President who's actually had the opportunity to sit in the welfare office, who's actually spent hours and hours talking to people on welfare, and I am telling you the people who are trapped on it know it doesn't work.

  38. But far too many are still trapped in poverty and idleness and fear.

  39. Jean recoiled a little before the leering face of him; pressed her shoulder hard against the ledge that had trapped her, and watched him in an agony of fear.

  40. Your lover is going to be trapped by the bandits, and you've just heard it and are hurrying to save him.

  41. They were followed by the pages of honour, mounted on great horses, trapped in crimson velvet embroidered with new devices and knots of gold.

  42. Next rode a gentleman carrying the cardinal's hat, and after him came Wolsey himself, mounted on a mule trapped in crimson velvet, with a saddle covered with the same stuff, and gilt stirrups.

  43. His horse, a charger of the largest size, and well able to sustain his vast weight, was trapped in crimson velvet, purfled with ermines.

  44. By the duke's side rode the Earl of Surrey attired--as upon the previous day, and mounted on a fiery Arabian, trapped in crimson velvet fringed with Venetian gold.

  45. He rode a magnificent black charger, trapped in housings of cloth of gold, powdered with ermine.

  46. His steed was trapped with gold, and round its neck was a deep gold fringe; the saddle and harness were of gold, but the bridle and head-gear of burnished silver.

  47. An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

  48. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

  49. And then the jellied gasoline ignited, turning those thousands of lives trapped in the deep into one vast funeral pyre.

  50. To Lee it felt uncanny to sit trapped and blindfolded in this "Black Maria" of a car while unseen rays and cameras went over him.

  51. The carbon dioxide that was trapped on the outside would not get through either.

  52. I think that the clouds and the carbon dioxide trapped outside of them would serve, on the one hand, to insulate Venus from the hot light of the nearby sun; and, on the other hand, to hold in its warmth during the long nights.

  53. When the guard had broken through the jammed hatchway to collar his trapped victim, there was no sign of the victim anywhere around.

  54. If they came up behind him, he was trapped in a crossfire.

  55. They know the dam isn’t blown up yet, which was their main worry, and they know they’ve got us trapped back here.

  56. The German Army will be trapped and defeated.

  57. It would of course be idle to ask you to surrender, but that's not necessary, for you're trapped and can't possibly last another five minutes.

  58. The scientist strove to keep level his voice as he continued: "Two friends and I are trapped here.

  59. On the other side of the door was Leithgow, and probably Ku Sui; on this side they were trapped in a blind end.

  60. Cash had prospected and trapped for more than fifteen years now, and he preached the doctrine of freedom and the great outdoors.

  61. Trapped some in winter--coyotes and bobcats and skunks, mostly.

  62. Then he told me how you went on when you travelled with this Darrell, the thief whom they trapped at Red Shirt Rush.

  63. He was the man Seers who had trapped him.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trapped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.