TRAPPING in a Sentence

Learn TRAPPING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
154 example sentences for TRAPPING, such as:
1. A trap was laid, with fresh bait.
2. The fox got its foot caught in a trap.
3. The car rolled onto its roof, trapping him.
4. The only way to catch mice is to set a trap.
5. I wondered if it was an animal caught in a trap.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TRAPPING
trapping
 n.  outward decorations; ornamental covering or harness for horse
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
2  Jim was for putting our traps in there right away, but I said we didn't want to be climbing up and down there all the time.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
3  So we went back and got the canoe, and paddled up abreast the cavern, and lugged all the traps up there.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
4  Jim made a floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
5  She said she'd have her frocks and a lot of other traps took out of her room if they was in Uncle Harvey's way, but he said they warn't.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI.
6  It was separated by the flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the diaphragm of the building, as it were.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
7  Sure that the convict who had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
8  If the system of ambush and traps had not already existed, they would have been invented there.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
9  After the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and traps; after chaos, the sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
10  After me it will all be over, and people will hunt with gins, snares, and traps.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
11  As to what I dare, I'm a old bird now, as has dared all manner of traps since first he was fledged, and I'm not afeerd to perch upon a scarecrow.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
12  All sorts of traps as Compeyson could set with his head, and keep his own legs out of and get the profits from and let another man in for, was Compeyson's business.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLII
13  So Queequeg and I got down our traps, resolving, however, to sleep ashore till the last.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
14  For they had set him to cleaning out the traps; and the family sat round and listened in wonder while he told them what that meant.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  After nine o'clock two traps and three mounted men, who had been sent to look for them, arrived to fetch Natasha and Petya.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  At least one elevator got stuck each day, trapping people inside, although no-one was injured.
2  He likes to ride without any trapping, a natural or green way.
3  The car rolled onto its roof, trapping him.
4  So I got all my traps into my canoe again so as to have them out of sight, and I put out the fire and scattered the ashes around to look like an old last year's camp, and then clumb a tree.
5  Small print in documents can contain traps for the unwary.
6  It's easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again.
7  I wondered if it was an animal caught in a trap.
8  The only way to catch mice is to set a trap.
9  The unemployment trap exists when an unemployed person on benefit would be worse off in a low-paid job.
10  Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to save money for business ventures.
11  If you fall into this trap, it will be all your own doing.
12  Nets should have fine meshes to trap small particles.
13  All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap.
14  The fox got its foot caught in a trap.
15  A trap was laid, with fresh bait.