TRAPPING in a Sentence

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154 example sentences for TRAPPING, such as:

1. The gaps between the teeth trap food particles.
2. She trapped him into a situation that he liked her.
3. A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings.
4. The trap closed round her leg, badly mangling her ankle.
5. The police played an elaborate game of cat and mouse to trap him.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRAPPING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
trapping
 n.  outward decorations; ornamental covering or harness for horse
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
2  Jim was for putting our traps in there right away, but I said we didn't want to be climbing up and down there all the time.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
3  So we went back and got the canoe, and paddled up abreast the cavern, and lugged all the traps up there.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
4  Jim made a floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
5  She said she'd have her frocks and a lot of other traps took out of her room if they was in Uncle Harvey's way, but he said they warn't.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI.
6  It was separated by the flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the diaphragm of the building, as it were.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
7  Sure that the convict who had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
8  If the system of ambush and traps had not already existed, they would have been invented there.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
9  After the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and traps; after chaos, the sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
10  After me it will all be over, and people will hunt with gins, snares, and traps.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
11  As to what I dare, I'm a old bird now, as has dared all manner of traps since first he was fledged, and I'm not afeerd to perch upon a scarecrow.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
12  All sorts of traps as Compeyson could set with his head, and keep his own legs out of and get the profits from and let another man in for, was Compeyson's business.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLII
13  So Queequeg and I got down our traps, resolving, however, to sleep ashore till the last.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
14  For they had set him to cleaning out the traps; and the family sat round and listened in wonder while he told them what that meant.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  After nine o'clock two traps and three mounted men, who had been sent to look for them, arrived to fetch Natasha and Petya.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
16  The police played an elaborate game of cat and mouse to trap him.
17  Don't fall into the trap of thinking you can learn a foreign language without doing any work.
18  The trap closed round her leg, badly mangling her ankle.
19  The gaps between the teeth trap food particles.
20  The player was afraid to accept his opponent's gambit because he feared a trap which as yet he could not see.
21  It is the door that comes out into that little close alley between the tavern and the old rattle trap of a brick store.
22  Last year Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince pulverised Awamiyah, a rebellious town; Saudi forces shelled its 400-year-old neighbourhoods and erected siege walls to trap some 200 gunmen.
23  It has the trappings of an election campaign in the United States, with slick television ads touting the candidates.
24  A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings.
25  She scorns the visible trappings of success, preferring to live unnoticed.
26  Secret brotherhoods surround themselves with arcane rituals and trappings to mystify outsiders.
27  The plan boomeranged when they were trapped instead of their victim.
28  The stream has frozen up; you can see the fish trapped in the ice.
29  She trapped him into a situation that he liked her.
30  UN troops will secure the land corridor so that food supplies can reach the trapped civilians.