Sentence examples for trapped up by from inspiring English sources

Her heart thumped in her chest like a crazed sparrow throwing itself against a window, like the one she'd seen in a parking garage once, trapped up by the ceiling, beating its wings and exhausting itself.

Will birds that delayed their ritual migration be trapped up north by frigid weather?

"These guys have a kick on 'em like a bit of a horse," the good Samaritan says, right before he makes pulling a trapped kangaroo up by its hind legs look easy.

Moreover, 3D results clearly indicated that bi-dimensional observations lead to an erroneous evaluation of the extent of the particles trapped (overestimated by up to 30%) since different focal planes may be overlapped.

"That was a death trap up there".

She anxiously warned him not to end up trapped by a mistake (Mr Bush sent her to Ms Rice for reassurance, which only partly worked).

A pair of them, feuding brothers, end up trapped on Earth by an evil general and find that teamwork is the key to getting home.

If we cannot keep ourselves feeling safe, if escape seems impossible because we are children growing up trapped by our own size and dependency within pain engendering families, then something inside of us freezes.

It's very important to let them know that you will not take sides and you want nothing to do with the drama, or you could end up "trapped" by a question like "Who is right?" or "Who is your better friend?" where no matter what you do, you come off as mean to at least one person.

Thirteen people from an adjacent trailer park hid inside a basement and were trapped by debris for up to 30 minutes.

Due to these bars for unlawful presence -- which won't be changed by the current immigration reform legislation -- many undocumented youth grow up feeling trapped by borders because we cannot leave our families and simply return to our countries of origin.