Snare in a web

Usage examples of trap.

And so, trapped in this ambivalent double bind, God tortures Schreber by producing in him the imperious urge to shit, while simultaneously denying him the ability to do so.

Once trapped in the node, the bacterium is handled by antibodies or, if that fails, by white cells mobilized for battle.

Their enemy had been trying to play cute again, but this time Bariden had been able to anticipate the major trap.

Now the agency was warning that Saddam was craftier than the Americans had anticipated and was laying an armor trap to outflank one of their key divisions.

The drill might probe lower and lower, boring steadily nearer to the dome of the anticline, but in all our minds was that sense of being trapped, of not being able to get out.

I took it in both of mine and pressed the gnarled fingers back, rubbing my thumb gently over the thickened palmar aponeurosis that was trapping the tendons.

They had not yet trapped the Lion against the ballista, but they would in a moment.

When they went on battue, every able-bodied person was necessary to drive a herd into traps or over cliffs.

He could have walked by their bodies and not known it, walked by them trapped in the flooded batture, with them screaming his name not ten feet from him, and would not have heard .

He felt as if his own soul had been reduced into something piteousa bedraggled, sweat-smeared rat, trapped within a rock-fall, twisting and squirming through cracks in a desperate search for a place where the pressurethe vast, shifting weightrelented.

Why would Morlock blatantly challenge them to go onto the roof unless it was a trap?

The black funnel of the guarded gateway was larger every time I looked, the yellow neck of the trapped asteroid always brighter in its bottomless throat.

It was a large tent, as big as a parish marquee, and though both its wide entrances had been brailed back there was no wind to stir the damp air trapped under the high ridge.

Galloping over the few patches that the starblaze showed comparatively free of traps, walking again, forcing the reluctant beasts through thick patches of bramble, on and on, until the whole world seemed to shake and the noise was a thousand hammers beating on them, a noise so pervasive it was around them as solid as the air slamming against them.

Nebula, their leaves and branchlets trapping starlight, the nourishment of drifting plants and animals, the moisture of fat rain clouds.