Brontë depicts in detail the isolation inherent in a governess's life, as an educated – but by necessity not too educated – woman trapped in an awkward halfway world between the classes.
But in the halfway house, trapped in between, I still dream of prison.
During riots in Risley prison, which opened in 1964, people were trapped on landings where stairwells stopped halfway down.
There it was, halfway down a side street, trapped behind a single file of a dozen cars or so waiting for the light on Broadway to turn green.
Mark, trapped in North Carolina, and Dori, recovering in a halfway house, carry on a heated long-distance relationship, exchanging sweet eccentric letters they both avidly cling to for comfort.
Pinch the net halfway so that the butterfly is trapped and cannot escape.
On the night that he starts writing this story, he falls asleep halfway through, and dreams that he is trapped in a deep, dark cellar.
And one day last summer, he saw the news that halfway across the world, 33 men were trapped in a Chilean mine, and no one knew how to save them.
About halfway through, the audience begins to get restless, trapped in the claustrophobia of the modern classroom.
She cried profusely the first day she wore it because halfway through the day she wanted to take it off, but felt trapped.
