'trapped in time' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone or something is unable to progress or move forward due to certain external factors or circumstances. For example, "The small village seemed to be trapped in time, with its cobblestone streets and 19th-century architecture."
"But the industry seems to be trapped in time".
What is fascinating is the contents of this family's kitchen, trapped in time.
To the majority, Rabaa seemed trapped in time, a fragment of an unworkable past.
A diverse assortment of families wandered around the place, which felt trapped in time.
Yet for the first time in my long and varied experience of "Merrily," the show seemed not only a portrait of people trapped in time, but a work trapped in time as well.
When subway passengers ride the R trains south through the Cortlandt Street station, they see a grime-covered space trapped in time.
But while southern Jamaica succumbed to cookie-cutter resorts with relentless reggae soundtracks, Porty — as the town, a three-hour drive through the Blue Mountains from Kingston, is known — retained the trapped-in-time ambience cultivated by the owners of estates in the area, including the Flynns, the Aga Khan and the Westons, a wealthy Canadian family.
The film does a pretty good job of conveying the bleakness and pointlessness Eva and her fellow mutants feel, but it's as if Ms. Trachinger were reluctant to take the premise any deeper for fear of being accused of imitating "Memento" or "Groundhog Day" or any number of other trapped-in-time films.
As employers have moved to just-in-time staffing, more hourly workers are trapped in part-time jobs or stripped-down full-time jobs.
British sport is still trapped in a time warp.
They are trapped in a time warp of goths and rockers, Joy Division, Pixies, the Ramones.
