Sentence examples for as if trapped from inspiring English sources

They twist and swell above ground zero as if trapped by and resisting its magnetic pull.

Paul would tell me later that he felt different from before, newly embedded in himself, as if trapped in statuary.

In the dramas he relates, Nichol plays every part as if trapped in a fast-forwarding video.

They don't interact as much as they ricochet around as if trapped in a giant Freudian pinball machine.

The timbres that result from these operations lack the twinkling exoticism of Cage's prepared-piano music: the piano makes a sullen, thudding sound, as if trapped behind Plexiglas.

Its policemen, seemingly ignorant of forensic science, behave as if trapped in treacle: off duty, one of them watches the only action available, repeated copulation.

In his backyard, Alvin, wearing a T-shirt that says Airhead, marvels at how a breeze twirls a large yellow pinwheel, then drops the pinwheel to sweep a jar out in front of him and quickly twist a lid on it, as if trapping an insect.

It's also the story of a policy becoming hostage to notions of our "credibility" as a world power, as if being trapped in a debilitating struggle with enemies who aren't leaving (and who know we are) is good for the ol' image.

"It was," he said, "as if we were trapped inside an air balloon".

For people like him, it seemed as if they were trapped.

Thick water sprayed the windows as if we were trapped in a big car wash.