Sentence examples for managed to trap from inspiring English sources

Cotchery somehow managed to trap the football to his helmet with his left arm while his body flipped over.

But they'd caught only a handful of pythons in the swamp, and they'd never managed to trap one.

With my son and some friends, we managed to trap them until the owner arrived with his daughter and sheepdog to herd them home.

The Bulgars, however, managed to trap the Byzantines in a mountain defile, where they killed Nicephorus together with most of his army.

It was fitting the New Zealander stormed over, given that he had helped to keep the move alive when he managed to trap the ball between his legs before shipping it on.

In 2007 researchers in the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus collaboration at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERNnearear Geneva managed to trap and store antihydrogen atoms for an interval of time that would be long enough to permit their detailed study for the first time.

"If they don't manage to trap any prey it's a wasted effort," he said.

All the birds are quiet, but we manage to trap six Gambel's quail.

Shocked, he dropped the fruit suddenly into a fruit bowl, managing to trap the spider by the leg in the process.

Rogers manages to trap the ball between his thigh and his pad, and as he turns to look for it, it bobbles out and bounces past his stumps.

Admittedly it's a gimmick, but what saves the book from slumping into a sack of anecdotes like Michael Moore's 2007 documentary "Sicko" is a steel backbone of health policy analysis that manages to trap immensely complicated concepts in crystalline prose.