Sentence examples for trapped instead of from inspiring English sources

If the balloon is responding more slowly to your actions, or you notice air pollution trapped instead of rising, you may be in an "inversion," where the surrounding air is hotter the higher you go.

Her ambition had turned into a trap instead of an asset.

But when used as a blueprint by others, his choices become mannerisms, traps instead of ways to escape.

He explained that his gesture was provoked by his anger that the local police were spending their time running a speed trap instead of patrolling and solving crimes.

It's striking how many organizations fall into this trap: Instead of emphasizing the prevalence of the behavior they want people to emulate, they talk about the frequency with which people do the opposite.

But there's more focused reporting under way on a question I explored on Tuesday: why schools were death traps instead of havens — or at least built to allow a chance of survival, something earthquake experts and engineers say requires only a few percent of additional investment.

Briefly, by radially ejecting the ions from the trap, instead of ejecting along the axial direction as is usually done, the resolution of the mass spectrometer is improved because the ion cloud is much smaller in this radial dimension.

But then he realized he had fallen into what her life work has shown to be a typically male trap: Instead of giving her sympathy he tried to solve her problem.

There are, however, few studies which document people's attitudes towards using rat traps instead of pesticides.

Reported in this article are the results of a follow-up survey conducted six months after distribution to assess community perceived acceptability of using rat traps instead of toxic pesticides (N = 175).

We used the number of surviving females (as indicated during the space trapping) instead of the initial density treatment, because treatments later in the experiment overlapped: 3-6 females in the low density treatment, 7-11 in the double, and 10-13 in the triple density treatment.