Catch in a con

Usage examples of ensnare.

Upon rounding the end of the conveyance, Colton immediately espied the ensnared hems and the swiftly separating garments.

And the ropes looked sort of ladderlike when the crew was swarming all over them, but under my feet and hands they suddenly turned into a net bent on ensnaring and strangling me.

Bewailing his sad lot -- ensnared, exposed to the scorn of those whose love he had ridiculed, wishing himself arrived at the port of death, and praying ever that his lady might glad him with some kind look -- Troilus is surprised in his chamber by his friend Pandarus, the uncle of Cressida.

But I will set you a course and chart each seamark, so neither on sea nor land will some new trap ensnare you in trouble, make you suffer more.

Though the process might be delayed, eventually the dragnet would close in an effort to ensnare the missing slayer: Shakes Niefan.

The night was still ensnared there on the gorse bushes grey with cobwebs and starry dewdrops.

He had not the polish, the confidence, to have ensnared the sort of young women he used.

No more women would be ensnared, and if the usurer was gone then he could not enforce repayment, not in law, surely?

A tentacle lashed out at Teres as she struggled with the crawling hands that ensnared her legs.

She was temperamental, even difficult at times, but no woman had captivated him, ensnared him as she had.

But strangely now, she felt a wave of pity for him filling her because he had become ensnared by that cunning little woman, and she was a woman fully grown and long past the period when the term young lady could be applied to her.

The warleader commanding the desert horse warriors had been too cagey to see his force ensnared in an out-and-out battle.

The goddess is too heavy-handed, too ensnared by emotion, to think with such devious, insidious clarity.

Kalal was squatting at the prow, beyond that ramshackle but which Jalila now knew contained the pheromones and grapplers which were needed to ensnare the tideflowers which this craft had been built to harvest.

The men she ensnared on her forays into beery, cigarette-smelling nightspots were sometimes unkind.