Sentence examples for trapping from inspiring English sources

The word trapping is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of capturing or catching something, or a situation in which someone is prevented from making a decision or escaping. For example, you could say: "The player was in a trapping situation, surrounded by defenders".

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trapping

noun

An instance of ensnaring something or someone.

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However, she said the signature-gatherers for her initiative were often harassed by individuals who support trapping, and she would like to see additional protections put in place – and existing ones enforced – for them.

Instead of trapping and slowly eliminating the virus, some believe that disabling the CCR5 receptor simply provoked it to mutate and invade cells via alternative receptors.

Managing to find my wife and trapping her into marrying me.

In Kane County, Illinois, west of Chicago, storms washed out a stretch of an unlit, rural road and created a 10ft sinkhole that a Ford Taurus drove into early Tuesday morning, trapping both occupants.

An anti-trapping group this year tried and failed to place a citizen's initiative on the ballot that would have banned trapping on most public lands.

Her gripping, if ludicrous story – be warned that the whole plot is coming – of Amy Dunne, a wealthy and beautiful psychopath whose revenge on her cheating husband involves framing him for her "murder", making up rape allegations against men (one of whom she murders during her demented spree) before trapping her broken husband by stealing his sperm, raised hackles.

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When this stuff decays or goes up in smoke, it releases vast amounts of heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere.

But if Cornell University soil scientist Johannes Lehmann is right, there may be a way to lower our emission of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, save millions of people's lives, and significantly boost the productivity of the world's farms all at the same time.

On the upside, agriculture can also dispose of heat-trapping gases, by increasing the carbon content of soils.And because farmers (unlike say, coal-producers) feel the effects of the changes their activities may be causing, they have a role in adapting to climate change.

It is, in the Arctic as everywhere, the result of an increase in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, mainly carbon dioxide released when fossil fuels are burned.

Anti-trapping advocates say it is inhumane and results in the inadvertent capture of pets and other species, while trappers say it is just another way to manage and control the population of an animal.

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