Suddenly, it has me trapped in its light. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Monsters don’t come to your home to help you live; they trap you in your bed and eat you alive. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You would not joke so had the queen trapped you!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We none of us can abide too much longer this containment, trapped here as we all eat our diet of galling news and the smoke of ruin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

So the Japanese began to plant booby traps. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ralph climbed up the trap door to the roof, returning to report that the building really needed a turnbuckle or something to keep its corners from falling outward. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbie punched open his traps, wet his buttons, spread his powder, and snuggled down comfortably into his rancid sleeping bag, secure in the knowledge that tomorrow morning his ants would be extinct. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hare ran ahead of Lion but soon found himself trapped by a deep ravine. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“He goes on about how he feels trapped because there was no way out of the decision, and down at the bottom he says, ‘Whatever you do, don’t tell Ernest I’m scared. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Bake bread, etc. hunt, and fish, trap, do most anything else. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect symbol for life outside Garland—huge, complicated, and full of hidden traps and pitfalls. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She tried to turn against the tide, to get away while there was still time, but she was caught in the chattering, laughing trap of factory girls pushing themselves forward into the new day. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Oh, no! Not that again. I thought you’d be satisfied with the traps. No, Billy, I don’t want to hear any more about hounds.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you probably feel trapped by your own thoughts and emotions right now. But it won’t always be like that.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And here we are, at the center of the arc, trapped in the gaudiest, most valuable, and most improbable water wheel the world has ever seen. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He was trapped in a pack of stragglers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A porthole has been cut into its face and through it I see a lone sailor trapped inside. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The jails are full of men and women who have been trapped in the spider’s web of the Stanton investigation. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They might find themselves trapped in this village forever. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he was out there in that trap this very minute eating tuna noodle casserole. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I was trapped, so close that simply by nodding my head, I might have brushed her lips with mine. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fought like a little tiger in a trap, but finally they got him into the car. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Angrily, he wiped them away with his sleeve and looked around like an animal in a trap, searching for some way out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Wes’s athletic physique and laid-back style, combined with the obvious trappings of a kid with disposable income—a new pair of sneakers every day, brand-name clothes—made him very popular with the girls around town. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She almost blends in with the room's trappings, like a flower arrangement. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And stepped right into the trap that Aru and Mini had laid. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then Grandma said, “Perhaps he’s trying to set you up for the Klan—he’s gonna lure you into a trap, and then where will you be?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Naylor finds himself in the same trap as all the other corn and soybean farmers in America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They were truly trapped now: There was no way out except through the door, and a horde of goblins seemed to be approaching on the other side. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If I were, I probably wouldn't be trapped in this hospital. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He felt trapped and depressed, since the job would separate him from his young daughter, who would remain in California with her mother. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then a hand shot out of the press and closed round her arm like a wolf trap, so hard that Needle went flying from her hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He attacked again, stabbing this time, but she trapped his wrist with her knife and pinned his arm, slashing him once across the abdomen. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The instant the animal’s hind legs brushed the trap, he tightened his powerful digits around its neck. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Because here in this jungle, there ain’t nothing but weeds and tears and dreams trapped beneath the asphalt. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Skylab would crash into the school, we’d all be in the bathroom and the crash would—conveniently—collapse the entrance and we would be trapped. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He’s a handsome special agent, always solving mysteries and saving people and getting trapped in deadly situations and figuring a way out at the last second. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jem better get a move on if he wants to get Irene. That trap of his won’t do better than thirty.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

So, before I leave my studio, I set up a booby trap—two tight rows of paint cans on the floor just inside the door. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for setting up the trap, Uncle Jet.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You have no family name you want—no inviting trap for a rich relative, no proud name to re-create?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo was perched on a rock, watching the effect of a fish trap she had made. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All you need is zero-evaporation trap seal liquid. Pour about a cup into every drain, and no sewer gas can get through.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If he wouldn’t get off the couch when the boat sank, he ain’t gonna move his butt over a few traps. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

One squirt from a water bottle would be enough to deal with them, so why did I feel like a trapped mouse? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Hesitant, wary of some trap, the first few prisoners edged across the planks and through the ring of the stakes, toward Melisandre and the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Blades and blows and booby traps were well enough in their way, but a vial of clear liquid, any trace of taste or odor gone when it was admixtured with food, that was Septimus's metier. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he feels trapped and panic sets in, he loses control and dirties himself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The women are supposed to wave palm leaves and chase the flames in toward the middle until all the trapped animals inside get completely nerve-racked and jump out through the fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men of the West were trapped, and soon, all about the grey mounds where they stood, forces ten times and more than ten times their match would ring them in a sea of enemies. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“So I went to her house when she was gone,” said LaPautre, “to remove a trap from the lean-to where she keeps them. That’s when it happened.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

So might a trapped fox feel anger at the paw which held him to the trap. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a trap! Come up here already.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

For a moment there was no sound; even the wind was as silent as the trapped water below. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The kids without umbrellas panic because they’re trapped in the cold, pounding rain, unable to move behind the kids with umbrellas. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a trap, perhaps, to lure him out of the house! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Possibly the cup of tea was Dudley’s idea of a clever booby trap. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had to move two blocks up the hill to a dahlia garden where they put out traps every night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never needed a compass hauling traps because I was always in sight of land. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I am trapped in a conspiracy of conspiracies. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“No traps on the doorway, but...something is strange here. My underground sense is—is fuzzy, like someone is working against me, hiding what’s ahead of us.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a trap. The sheriff never wants to lay eyes on you again,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

One of them was the young man known only as Ryan, who, along with Walter Merrithew, had been trapped inside the demolished Number 3 freight house. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The first thing I think of is one of those metal bear traps that snap on your ankle if you step on it. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“But I’m just trapped here. As soon as I can prove I didn’t know there was a bullet in that gun I’ll be ungrounded, and then we can do anything normal you want.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to see if it’s still safe. There might be a trap waiting.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yoren had them roll a wagon on top of the trap, to make certain no one came in that way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There are little pockets inside the mound where the people are trapped. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terror seized me so strongly that I was literally trapped by it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ukulele was a social asset second only to the traps and saxophone. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Scouts look for traps, setups, that kind of thing.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even though I’m still trapped in this blue-black skin and this big, tall body of mine. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But it means I need to be careful how I load the traps into the skiff, so I don’t tip the boat over. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I trap the ball with my stomach, then knee. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He was six years old, and he was reading a tattered book about Pedro el Conejo, who got trapped in Senor MacGregor’s garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realize I am floating, frozen, trapped inside a set of ruins with only a small eyehole through which I can see the rest of the game unfolding. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The school gym is worse than that because you’re packed in and everyone is shouting, and you can become trapped. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough for the trap to be biting his foot, but to have his neck pinned down that way was too much. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a time I said, more to myself than to him, “After all, why should you trust me? A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get up there,” he growled, and I knew how it felt to be free and trapped at the same time, treed by a bear that would follow if he was hungry enough. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She averted her eyes and hurried past, feeling as though she were still trapped in a nightmare. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There were probably more of them at the Manhattan harbor, laying a secondary trap. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Now she moved the trap into position over the mouth of an empty bottle. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the case, they found themselves trapped in fresh water and died. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now his consciousness was trapped inside a charred crispy husk of demigod roadkill. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“This little girl’s brother has got caught in a trap.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the thick glasses, her eyes had a bloated appearance as though they were both trapped in a goldfish bowl. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know that I've ever felt so cheap, but I rationalized it by reminding myself that it wasn't my fault this person was trapped. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They know I was in the woods and should be trapped there now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The news that a second child was on the way made him feel trapped. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king bent over, and if he had been looking at the gang, he could have seen Pinmei through the crack, her eyes fixed upon him like those of a trapped mouse. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Golden walls hug around us like we're trapped inside the sun. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He hoped this wasn’t some kind of wild-goose chase or, worse, a trap. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The group blocking the bridge rattled threateningly, tightening the trap. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Will our lives go on like this forever—me always in bed and Mami trapped in the house with me? Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I am certainly not going to sit up in that death trap of a front seat for highway travel. Now get in this go-cart and get us out of here.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass cut my hands up so fast I thought I had walked into a booby trap. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how odd, too, to watch as Ugly Betty and her friends were free to walk the streets of New York City, while we were trapped inside with nothing to do. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They had been immune from cats, from traps, from poison and from Jody. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes; those in the streets knew now that the police and vigilantes had trapped him upon the roofs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was trapped in a cycle of acting out and punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Bill couldn’t resist this trap, and this time Aunt Anne was ready for him. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I get the first three traps into the skiff, I fire up the outboard motor and take us down the creek and into the harbor and up to the wharf at Murphy’s Bait & Fuel. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the designs based on Gale’s traps. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But the thought of not being able to tell my best friend that my paw was caught in the trap was too sad. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He had an uncanny prescience, as if he lived twenty seconds ahead of himself, seeing the coming trap along the rail or the route to the outside. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trap door opened, and Hickock hung for all to see a full twenty minutes before the prison doctor at last said, “I pronounce this man dead.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first place, the door they opened had no lock, so it could not trap them. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“That was a bull shark. It was trapped in a salt pond on the Cape.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

You are trapped in my embrace, Gaea said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white community. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But when it comes to cause and effect, there is often a trap in such open-and-shut thinking. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She was too accustomed to dream logic to be surprised by any of the trappings, but not too jaded to find them beautiful. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“The ranch is north. The fire is sweeping up the whole ridge. We’ll be trapped.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

To this day, I can see the trap that Mother was in, saddled with all of us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is much talk upon the Road of Boston & its Captivity, for Parliament’s Army hides within — silent — mum — & its Citizens trapped, while without, our Numbers grow. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m wrapped and trapped in plastic. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Look: It wasn’t the detour Cade and I took that brought me to realize how I’d never been trapped inside my father’s book in the first place. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Frodo thought for a moment, fearing some further trap, and wondering how this debate would turn in the end. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When he realizes I know something about snares, he shows us a simple, excellent trap that will leave a human competitor dangling by a leg from a tree. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, they had suddenly stumbled upon an Indian village, passing palm-leaf shelters along the shore and some sticks poking out of the water, which was all that was left of the Indians’ fishing trap. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I knew learning to read wouldn't change the fact that Fatima was trapped here like I was, cleaning floors, dusting baseboards, and peeling potatoes. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

What’s more, only a handful of Octavian’s ships were needed at the mouth of the strait to keep Mark Antony and Cleopatra’s fleet trapped in the bay. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was grateful to Tad for helping him get out of the bathroom he’d been trapped in. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She just usually ended up covered in dirt, or upside down, or trapped under or inside something. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Had he driven the thing here, or had it drawn him here, into a trap? A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now that there were other demons actually helping to save the trapped demons, we did not seem to have as much trouble as before. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gathered gear, left the trap triggered and hanging from a branch, and made my way back up the creek. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His heart is going so fast that he feels as if something, not his heart, is trapped inside. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He wanted her not trapped in the sky, not hunted by humans, not hopeless, and not besieged by nightmares whenever she closed her eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They were grabbing the hands of the kids who were trapped in the portable and pulling them up, step-by-step, to the edge of the hole. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's like I'm trapped underwater or something, so weak and floaty I can't hardly fight him, can't pry his fingers loose from my mother's neck. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Avoiding the Sphere of Annihilation located at the end of the corridor, I located a hidden door beside the last pit trap. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Out of a trap in Salt Crick,” Grandma remarked. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like Id been unearthed from a coal mine after being trapped for days and days. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Four long days trapped with Gran and Viper, separated from my poor sick Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And “hell” was the right way to describe the room she’d gotten trapped in. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He opened die trap on die raft to pull out the water keg and die tin containing the biscuits, the chocolate squares, and dry matches. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

You die of cold or hunger or suffocation, trapped in a dark coffin made of ice. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was already hardening around her, trapping her inside a shell. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Clusters of tracker jacker nests in the vicinity of the tree I was trapped in. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mama picked up a rock from under a nearby tree and pushed down on the side of the trap. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I felt like a deer that has just stepped into the hunter’s well-laid trap. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I tell myself that he is wily and smart, and will not easily fall into Chief Powhatan’s trap. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise,” the Prince answered. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You see,” I laughed, “under the fancy trappings, I’m just a plain lady.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lungs ached from the ash in the air, and his mind filled with pictures of Bri trapped in the elevator, dying slowly and alone. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She dropped the glowing thing—little more than a wispy ribbon—and Aru realized that it was the Sleeper she had just trapped in the lamp. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We were getting ready to milk, and I was cleaning the stalls in the Big Barn when suddenly he was right next to me, standing by the manure traps. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The tank roared; the sound was thunder trapped in a metal drum, clamoring to be let out. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And now I'm running, knowing this may be a trap, knowing the three Careers may be poised to attack me, but I can't help myself. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, he’s safer in shallow water than out there,” I say, pointing to the lobster traps. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I usually hate the days I'm trapped in the laundromat with my mother, but right now I would give anything to be staring at laundry spinning in circles. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe they knew how people in the Overland tried to trap, poison, and kill off all the rats aboveground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your sketchbook. Dad says your imagination is what helped you get through the time you were trapped inside.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The brothers were trapped forever in Ginnungagap, the vast gap between the fire and the mist. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A funny little round man in hippie clothes with a mind like a steel trap. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam’s expression was grim as he leaned over and pulled my hair out from where it was trapped beneath the collar. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was stuck in another small town, trapped in another universe populated by the kind of people who’d only ever seen faces like mine on their evening news, and I hated it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She remembered how she had hated the scaly tails of the muskrats, the wild smell of them, and yet did not want to find them caught fast in the traps. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are astronomers in each galaxy, and the light they see is also trapped on the curved surface of the hypersphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other man put his trap a short distance away, taking care to disguise it so that no bird would know that it was there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In the next few weeks several adults were taken in traps. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The night balloon he’d been trapped inside popped like a soap bubble, and he landed on a hard floor surrounded by Clock Watchers. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Did she think he was a spy trying to trap her? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, honey, it isn’t. But folks have got to move on as well, or else they can just get trapped in a moment, unable to do what they must. To live.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was trying to catch a rat, but somehow he came nosing around and got in my trap. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama said the trap was usually in Doc’s cabin, but I know he wouldn’t have set it out there near the house.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was confidently directing his team from center midfield, ordering defense to move up the field in an effort to set up the offside trap. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Not what you fear. We didn’t lay hands on the old woman. She slipped through our trap somehow.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, though, my father himself would shake his head and whisper, “Five thousand boys trapped. Good Lord. Five thousand.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It reminded her in a way of those cats who followed the laser point on the ground, trying forever to trap it between their paws, but she didn’t tell Joaquin that. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In which the spymaster leads the British into a final trap and wins the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ha, I’m about as trapped as a skylark in the air on a clear day! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I pushed the pie tin way back up into the corner of the trap and said, “Okay, now all we have to do is wait.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The little peasant had trapped her lips between her teeth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

For working people like C.P., trapped in East Durham, that wasn’t an option. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or the traps, buoys and all, washed ashore in a broken tangle. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Poseidon and Hera and a few other gods .. . they, like, trapped Zeus and wouldn’t let him out until he promised to be a better ruler, right?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I clamped the mouth of the jar against the wall, trapping it between Charleston and Georgetown. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the opposite extreme, some aboriginal fishing groups of southeastern Australia devised elaborate technologies for managing fish populations, including the construction of canals, weirs, and standing traps. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Except my hands are so tired and achy from hauling traps, I can barely hang on to the fork. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If she isn’t now trapped in a graveyard. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if they ever made it off the elevator. Ever got to the firestorm. If the elevator doors opened on desperation? Or if they were trapped? Elevators shut down.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a postern gate to the north, and Gerren discovered a trap under the straw in the old wooden bam, leading to a narrow, winding tunnel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The afternoon had been wasted on the cat; Ignatius had tried to trap the cat in the bun compartment and take it home for a pet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Economic stimulus packages could have sailed through Congress to bail out those trapped in jobless ghettos through no fault of their own. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They landed on the trap, crawled inside to find something to bite, and couldn’t get out again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And stupid me: I had trapped myself in a hole hundreds of feet below the surface. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Then you let me go. You let everyone go—my real father and mother, the dead children, everyone you’ve trapped here.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Her tongue pushed through the trap of teeth and had Mammachi’s silver thimble fitted on the end of it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rolls onto my stomach, trapping me beneath her supple warmth. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew that what she really wanted was to be somewhere else, where it wasn't the two of us trapped in a room thick with the things we weren't saying. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then we could hear the hissing of gas from the broken pipes, like dozens of angry snakes, and people, trapped inside the mounds, began calling. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now we all sit there, silent, forks in hand, trapped at the dinner table. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the topmost shelf, above a rail of threadbare clothes, a small cardboard box was shaking and rattling as though there were several frantic mice trapped inside it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A few—a very few—chose to stay because they felt a sense of duty to their city and its trapped inhabitants. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what I found on Saturday out back in the marsh? An animal trap!” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“While they set their trap. Be alert tomorrow.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was a trap, but not the kind Magdalys had thought. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Words that were trapped in my head and couldn’t be said, frozen behind lips that wouldn’t move. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Someone dead whose spirit was trapped and couldn’t get away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like fish caught in a net, struggling against the cords that trap us, trying to squirm free, not realizing we’re already dead. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

This reservation had tried to suffocate her, had kept her trapped in a basement, and now she was out roaming the huge grassy fields of Montana. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

But my rage had caused a dam, trapping the tears inside. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Near the town. I almost didn’t come back. I was almost”—the boy sought for a word—“trapped.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like we just stepped through a hologram that showed everyone else a trap house and into a studio. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At 10:13 Richardson released the trap and hanged him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Only other time I felt near this bad was when I’d come ’crost one of the older boys, Tug Smith, as he was setting a booby trap for Petey the dimwit. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I took my pups with me as I just knew I’d have a big ringtail trapped and I wanted them to see it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each soldier was paired up with a dog to track enemies through the jungle, search villages, and walk point looking for booby traps or snipers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“First we need to get Duke home safely. And Tater. He’s the puppy trapped in the bathroom.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It turned out they had been trapped at locations all over central Uganda. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ll radio down reinforcements for sure. I don’t want to be trapped into fighting on that river.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are layers to fear, and complexities, and being trapped here brings that to light. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As they walked over one of the bridges, Pinmei looked down and saw a fish trapped in the ice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He amused himself by trapping flies under a glass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Percy didn’t see much choice but to play along with her VIP tour until they could find the sea god Phorcys, even if they were walking deeper into a trap. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And now of course Digory saw the trap in which he was caught: and he stared at Uncle Andrew, saying nothing, with his mouth wide open. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s another reason it won’t be so easy to break out of the trap. It doesn’t only involve my own family.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She can watch the wind shift the drifts of snow trapped in the courtyard behind me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They kept bothering me underwater. Blocking me so I was trapped, yanking my swimsuit. Saying things about how I looked in it. Laughing. And they wouldn’t stop.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yes; Britten was trying to trap him, trying to make out a case against him; but he could not find anything to go upon. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy wrenches his trapped arm away from me and throws me to the ground. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I knew this part of the tournament would take a while, because the guys who had lasted this long were good—they wouldn’t easily fall into simple traps like the old lift-and-dive, Hassan’s favorite trick. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It was truly awesome to meet you. But I gotta get going. The server is about to reset, and I want to clear out of here before all of those traps and undead respawn.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They became trapped in rush- hour traffic again, surrounded by half-asleep yuppies in suits who were sucking coffee from foam cups and listening to traffic reports and easy rock and roll. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he shoveled rice into his trap, Sunny spoke up. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scanner reminds me of the wooden box that traps me in my fear landscape, squeezing my bones together. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Kainene asked Baby to join the older children making lizard traps, to learn how to mat the palm fronds and place the cocoon full of iddo ants inside. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There is a fundamental disconnect today between the world of civil rights advocacy and the reality facing those trapped in the new racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He would have preferred to escape back into normal life, the clang of the bell, the crowds of familiar faces, instead of sitting here, trapped inside the house. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

"Mama says people on the East Side live like fish trapped in a puddle when the tide goes out." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He chased the beast from one place to another until it was exhausted; then he drove it into deep snow and trapped it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is you who are baiting a trap with those two beauties you are so proud of.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When money gave out and food ran low, Katie and the children pretended they were explorers discovering the North Pole and had been trapped by a blizzard in a cave with just a little food. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were trapped in that stairwell, our bodies pressed against everyone else’s in one shivering mass of nerves and exhilaration. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I admired the graceful gold-and-pink rose pattern on the translucent bone china and figured that some of the trappings of civilization weren’t so bad after all. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It also told me where all the traps were located, and how to disarm or avoid them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was somewhere very close to sleep when a voice spoke in his head, a pretty, feminine voice that sounded as if it came from a fairy goddess trapped in his skull. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Constructive interventions would have been good not only for African Americans trapped in ghettos, but also for blue-collar workers of all colors, many of whom were suffering too, if less severely. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Soon after the battle began, the warriors became trapped on a ledge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Leo had promised he would get Hazel and Frank out of the trap. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Both Seven and Valley landed with a thud on the hard ground on the other side of the Cursed Forest mud trap—scared but alive. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was then used in traps set for the males in census operations along the fringe of the insect’s range. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And his first coherent thought is that he did not expect being trapped in a fire to feel so cold. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The trapped feeling I had from those experiences still made my breath catch in my throat and my heart thump in fear. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was the most frustrating feeling in the world, second only to the inherent helplessness that came with being trapped in a camp, all of your decisions made for you. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was sure it was the same weasel I had met in the trap. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him at that moment, as he stood waiting and waiting, trapped in his coat, that a man was as doomed here as he was in China. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked and swore and swung my trapped limbs so hard my braid wiped at my own eyes, so I closed them. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

"Sometimes good people get trapped in the dark." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Wind slammed into him from all directions, keeping him trapped in place. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But though I laughed, I felt trapped, as hollow as a rotten tree. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hesitates, turning the tiny glass bottle with Widget’s version of his tree trapped inside over in his hand, but then he adds it as well, flinching as it shatters against the iron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On the court Trip got trapped in the corner and threw up a three that rimmed and came out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had begun to manage their environment intensively for fish production by building fish traps, nets, and even long canals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could smell the incense trapped in his frock, like the fragrance of Ultima’s herbs was part of her clothes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came plowing out of the matted mass and was right on the trap before I realized it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of gold in Battle Mountain, but it was trapped in the ore. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He has the look of someone who is trapping terror inside. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It, too, had been trapped in the ice since the previous year, and although not crushed it was badly damaged. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

This wedding could well be just some ruse to lure Stannis into a trap. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s a result of all your body heat trapped inside the cast. And you’re growing up—as fast as I feared! Good thing I put you in that body cast.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been away because our mother’s out of town on business, and we came back to check on our cat, and these kids were trapped down there,” Chess said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone but Sunny, who was chillin', trapping his laughter in his face, as usual, so nobody knew what he was really thinking. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The open trap was only a few feet ahead, but the fire was spreading fast, consuming the old wood and dry straw faster than she would have believed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We all seem to be trapped in some sort of a cage. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you’re trapped in,” Widget says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like he fell; he had jumped, and if he drowned, trapped in his own golden robe, it would be considered a self-gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After the first door, there’s a second door, so we’re trapped in a cage in between. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I laid a trap for her—she fell into it. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to bait traps all over the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although no trap was good enough to win, the cause became known. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking they were game trails, and not knowing they were Sarnie’s favorite hunting trails, I set my traps. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can you be trapped and safe at the same time? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to pull their hands away from him to relieve the pain I saw in his face, but the trappings of the priest’s costume entangled me and so I could do very little. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lilian had us trapped between the fence and a thicket of bushes and vines heaped with snow. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The traps helped my dog-wanting considerably, but like a new toy, the newness wore off and I was right back where I started from. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed the fish trap over Mother’s head so she wouldn’t get too hot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gram,” I said, “do you really believe these stories? I mean, princesses trapped in towers and things like that?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The queen lifts a golden spyglass and stares at me and Holly like we're bugs trapped in bell jars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was a snap, and the hand was trapped in a mousetrap. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A body of ashes trapped in a vase forever. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“But your werowance is quick as a rabbit. The trap did not catch him.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what good it would do if he did find the trap, but I felt glad anyway that he was looking. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s assume for a moment that this boy wasn’t trying to trap you. How are you gonna get the car back to him without other people finding out about it?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roberta shut her eyes to keep the tears trapped under her eyelids. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He stepped squarely on a sheet of the paper, trapping one foot. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Neighbors complain, even the ones eight mats away, saying it’s bad enough being trapped in putrid, hot air made from fermented bodies and oily sweat, must everybody also endure something rotten? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It’ll be fun, fishing on my own, and when Dad hears about me working the traps, it’ll shame him into helping. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The boy gritted his teeth, but he was trapped among the hurdles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were small traps and middle-sized traps and great bear traps with teeth in their jaws that Pa said would break a man’s leg if they shut onto it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Only, when I put my arms around his neck, I find myself trapped in his embrace. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She tried to dodge it, but the enchanted muck yanked her back, flinging her and Mini to the wall so that they were like bugs trapped on flypaper. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“They destroy crops and food supplies. They kill trees by gnawing around the bark. Mice can be destroyed by traps, poison, and cats.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was trapped as his people were always trapped, and would be until, as he had said, they could be sure that the things in the books were really in the books. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure?” she asked, and it felt like a trap. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had studied and asked questions with the same unwavering intensity as when he had trapped and pelted and cured a Hebrew verb. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few years ago, Percy and she had gone on a quest in Daedalus’s labyrinth—a secret network of tunnels and rooms, heavily enchanted and trapped, which ran under all the cities of America. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was trapped in one of those nightmares where you’re churning in quicksand. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When Burl got home from his job pumping gas, he helped us load the trap into the back of his truck and drove us to Gus and Bertha’s. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We all trapped in this game of hurt. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He faced what he knew to be the center of Forest, the place where Matty and Kira were trapped, and he willed himself to look beyond. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Most Romans did not surround themselves with the costly trappings and plush furnishings the Alexandrians enjoyed. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Besides, he was bound to stop the trap and come running down the bank, and she would have to suffer the interruption with good grace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The boy had snared a rabbit; he was good at setting traps and more ruthless than Dustfinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They walked on for several hours, until they reached a place where they could set their traps. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he was back in his devil’s den, making a note in his log of evil deeds: first day of summer, trapped Virgil Salinas in a well. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was being trapped into going farther than he had ever intended to go. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he visited the trap next day, he found that an old wild goose had been caught in it, obviously a Grand Admiral, because of his toughness and his heavy bars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her traps were destroyed by jackals, honey badgers, and the caracal—she was certain of its identity now. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood still, and felt instantly trapped inside a stage play of rehearsed hostility. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It means I don’t have to limit my activities to spinning and trapping and stunts like that.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Detached herself from this city where every street corner was a trap, where every alley hid a ghost that sprang at her like a jack-in-the-box. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Now you are trapped here, helpless, while the mortal world dies. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Alex suddenly had a vision of himself trapped in blackness with water rising up to his chest, his neck, over his face. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I liked those hard loyal men, but they lived in a trap there was no getting out of, and I had work to do among people I liked less. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wait four days and then go back to the first string of traps. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Academics in the softer fields dress up the trivial and obvious with the trappings of scientific sophistication, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the trap, charged down the hall to Zippernose’s room, yanked open her door, and rifled the trap into the dark, right about where she would be lying in bed. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be a cool breeze trapped inside the car. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Oh my God, why am I falling into this sand trap? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She has been trapped in that shack ever since, held captive by the knots in the rope you saw. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He did not consider any longer the possibility that she might be laying some kind of trap for him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He had an air hostess’s heart trapped in a bear’s body. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire was now locked inside the alley, trapped, with the fire coming at her from all sides. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

As though nature concealed a trap, Cathy had from the first a face of innocence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pluto’s dark suit shimmered, as if the souls trapped in the fabric were getting agitated. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But my hermanitas were mistaken if they thought I was going to drive them around in that death trap. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“The ghost. A big black ghost floating and rattling right towards that man. The fella’s backing up, backing up. Then Uncle Louver hears one of his traps snap.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I began to fear that I might indeed be trapped for weeks or even months to come,” the pilot later wrote. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Kate made her way to the back of the Institute Control Building, hustled past the boulders and the drapeweed trap, and started up the hill. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Routine is also comforting for the prisoner, which is why it can be a trap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if something trapped inside has managed to escape. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m at the fence before the hum makes me remember how very trapped I am. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And on the pyre, his legs trapped among books and flaming logs, his torso slumped over at a gruesome angle, the body of Michelangelo di Bologna burned. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The men were taught to pick locks, crack safes, set booby traps, and use poison. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman on the radio was interviewing someone who recited the names of the trapped students and the information they’d been able to get about each of them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And there was the mysterious shadowy figure that loomed from nowhere, accidentally frightening Finn into stepping in one of Uncle Louvers traps. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her plane flipped and she was trapped in the dark and the cold. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh, how nice of him,” exclaimed the King again, beginning to bustle about with his various trappings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not here. If a float has my mark, the trap below has my lobster. And no funny business.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

No matter, though, the sheepherder grabbed a shovel and set to, vehemently attacking the earth under which his dog apparently was trapped. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had known boys like him in school—desperate to be a man, yet trapped in his own mind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A dove had been caught in a trap, and Great Ellen had put it in a stew. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In 1920, when they were trapped at Riverbank, he had grown thin and listless under the strain. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were the first British prisoners to return home, almost three years since most of them had been trapped during the opening days of the Korean War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

You stand up here on the fourteenth floor and you look around, and people are trapped within the boundaries of this development. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the next week fishing, hunting, trapping, gathering greens and bulbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He packed Us scanty traps, not understanding what had happened, but feeling that he had escaped calamity by a hairbreadth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thirty traps, that’s all it was. Kept me awful busy, though. Thought my arms was going to fall off the first few days. Then I got used to it.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of the voices below grew louder, getting trapped between my ears. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But we all have secrets, hopes that stay locked deep inside, trapped by our fears of the world’s judgment. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And he goes on about how he loves me, what life would be without me but I've stopped listening because his previous words are trapped in my head, thrashing desperately around. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dad came home from work that night with his hands bandaged, bloodied from removing the rock that trapped the men. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Is the Director playing me, trying to trap me in a lie? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He was trapped in a pit without a friend in the world, and he was afraid. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

So close to home, he was not falling for any traps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Well!” said the sergeant, “they’ll find themselves trapped in a circle, I expect, sooner than they count on. Now, blacksmith! If you’re ready, his Majesty the King is.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Pacing, she felt as though her life had chased her down a dead-end corridor and trapped her there to taunt her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I opened the trap door and stepped into the attic. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Lafayette, ordered to trap Cornwallis, sent Private Charles Morgan, playing the role of a deserter, into the British camp. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio is all static—like the sound of the crunching metal of a car, the faint, blurry voice on the airwaves her own, trapped inside a wreck, calling for help. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For a while, Pollux and I click around on the Holo, seeing what traps lie where. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He would not suffer this helpless waiting, this sitting trapped on a little island muttering useless spells of lock and ward. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We would trap muskrats out in the little creek in back of our house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, yeah, he doesn’t have some person in his life trapping his ability to simply be. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There are two hundred perfectly good traps stacked on the dock right now, all licensed and tagged, not doing nothing since my dad quit fishing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Being trapped in here with everyone hoping they didn’t die. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the last, Estraven stopped and made camp early, in order to set traps. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like my octopus body has gotten trapped in a net. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone trapped in their roles: orphans, cadets, Frederick, Volkheimer, the old Jewess who lives upstairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had been trapped inside a bag that smelled like earth and rotten cabbage. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But police, railroad security agents, or la migra could bar the doors, trapping him inside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were the eerie moans and whirrs of machinery coming from the Grievers, sitting there as if enjoying the little trap they’d set for the humans. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Emma got the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals involved, and they had a contest to see who could invent the most humane but effective trap. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We went to these caverns in Tennessee once. A real rip-off tourist trap. What were they called?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You were caught in our trap, plain as day. We knew the trickster would send someone, but children? He is truly desperate.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The Kenyan naturalists trapped and netted hundreds of birds, rodents, hyraxes, and bats. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night when Pa was greasing the traps he watched Black Susan come in, and he said: “There was once a man who had two cats, a big cat and a little cat.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a lot of noisy kids trapped in a cage for twenty minutes to play a game they didn’t have time to play or enough of whatever they needed to play it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Two hundred traps. It’s possible you bit off more than you can chew.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the gray eyes were level with his, Hunter had to struggle to keep from feeling trapped—in his own house. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lobster trap is an awkward thing to handle because the weight is all in the bottom. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I trotted back toward the house, but when I looked over my shoulder, Susie still stood in the middle of the twisted vines, almost like she was trapped and didn’t know how to get out. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was an athlete, a marble player, a pitcher of one-o’-cat, and the trappings of a girl inhibited her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when Pa had walked his traplines quickly because the traps were empty, or when he had got some game sooner than usual, he would come home early. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d left the windows down, but the Bel Air was still all filled up with the kind of heat that can only trap itself in a car. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

That we will be trapped like rats until the hour passes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now she saw a third figure whom she had not noticed before, striding along the driveway toward the trap. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t help laughing as they watched the monkeys struggling to punch the air and each other with their trapped fists. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede dug her fingers into the ground, trapping the soil beneath her nails. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was so beautiful that I stopped near a thicket of dwarfed and wind-warped cedars and junipers, and once stopped I was caught, trapped in color and dazzled by the clarity of the light. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You addlepated...What have you done? Now both of us are trapped! And you talk about sense! You haven’t...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Or it was just a trap, for kids looking for the real East River. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was, of course, another stereotype, another trap. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Just like being trapped by a forest fire. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I know it's risky to be setting traps, but food will go so fast out here. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how to open the trap. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Living in her respectable house in the center of town, crowded by four other houses, each so near anyone could peer through the windows and whisper a judgment, Faye felt trapped. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The trouble was, the crowd was getting thicker and we were trapped in the middle of it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I froze, trapped between the urge to flee and the unbearable thought of being alone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of cows ran into the trap, and two fell to the lions’ fangs and claws. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the universe is closed, light is trapped within it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You try you a little sabotage. That’s the only way you fight that kinda trap.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But why would we want to enter the traps?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tess lifted the box completely and there Genie was, swallow trapped between his palms. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Our feet were trapped under a weight on top of the blankets that turned out to be Tree and Zheegwon lying perpendicular on top of the comforter. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I was conscious of my unruly hair that would not be trapped in a neat braid and my enormous eyes, which my younger brother called owl eyes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I screamed at him, and he realized he was trapped. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He endeavored to trap and nourish the impression in order to predict, and perhaps even control, what incident would occur next, but the afflatus melted away unproductively, as he had known beforehand it would. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If it was a dragon, she could tell Yedsha about it, and hopefully it wouldn’t take him long to figure out how to trap it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her advisers warned him that Octavia was setting a trap and had married him only to further her brother’s cause. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It never quit fighting, but the more effort it put in, the tighter it trapped itself. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you keep your trap shut and let us ask the questions?” said the colonel. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Chamberlin had planned the meeting as a trap to try to shatter Holmes’s imperturbable façade, and was impressed with Holmes’s ability to maintain his insouciance despite the rancor in the room. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Because if you try, I will freeze all the water and trap you inside it,” Nathan said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A group of babalawos tried apanaldo, an exorcism, and thought they had trapped an evil spirit in the rooster they buried in a knotted cloth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the sounds that Taisin had made at night in her dreams: the eerie, half-senseless murmurings of beings trapped behind bars. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

These “traps” were covered with sticks and leaves as if to disguise them, and the hunters lurked in the false undergrowth. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Up there somewhere in the mountains, Pa, Ma, Keav, and Geak are still trapped and unable to go home with us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When particulate matter in the atmosphere was sufficient, light from the ground got trapped and reflected back, and the entire Detroit sky would become the soft pink of cotton candy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“If they’ll just die in private I think I can handle it. I better get a half-dozen ant traps and buttons, and also a can of powder.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing how I was trapped in the car, my mother took the opportunity to harass me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking about taking, well, actually stealing, one of Old Tallow’s traps,” said LaPautre. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She glanced in surprise at Omakayas, trapped, and then unable to hide her amusement, a big grin spread over Mama’s face. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It had its leg caught in the trap, but I got it out.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He touched the corner of my eye, trapping one I missed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“A mouse, hm? That’s probably it. A lot of students have complained about mice in their ceiling lately. I suppose we’ll have to put out some traps.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Arachne thrashed and rolled and squirmed, but the trap held her tight. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bear Skip Mac You can find me here— I’m imprisoned, trapped by a verbomaniac and locked far from fun, from freedom. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Magdalys exhaled, realizing just how trapped and exposed they had been. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her fish trap was useless without a narrow channel, and no birds ventured this far from shore. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So? The railroad yards are where they go to trap pigeons and bring them here. Why did you have to let him go there?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

So James Cook sent Minty out to inspect his trap lines. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sanctuary had trapped the sticky heat of the past several days, which came close to stifling anyone wearing a starched white shirt with a starched white collar. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I can already feel the silence like a wall, barbed wire crawling up my legs to trap me where I stand. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I saw a clear path, the traps to avoid. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if those other children of Athena died because Tiberinus and Rhea Silvia led them into a trap? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“She wants kids. She wants to collect them. She puts them in snow globes. She traps them with promises, and if she can get them to agree to stay there forever, they’re hers.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I am making a figure-four trap as tall as me with a log on it that I can barely lift. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew they’d be trapped by the gas and smoke if they stayed in Manhattan. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Monstrous and abominable eyes they were, bestial and yet filled with purpose and with hideous delight, gloating over their prey trapped beyond all hope of escape. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Misery owns me now, but then great Ares and Athena gave me valor and man-breaking power, whenever I made choice of men-at-arms to set a trap with me for my enemies. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The center had all of the trappings of a high-security prison, and its inmates were incarcerated there for relatively long periods. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Here the smell of bodies and refuse was worse, trapped by the sweating moisture of salt water. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The spider holes in our yard are covered and ready to be manned, booby traps are set, and the security shutters are down. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He locked the door to the yard, set booby traps, locked the front door too and barricaded it with the couch. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a long night, where I’m trapped inside a dreamworld and can’t decipher whether I’m awake or asleep. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And if we can’t, we are trapped like birds in a net. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Maybe time is like that insect,” Blink said, “trapped beneath the crystal of your watch.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"I was so stupid. I walked right into her trap." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Most traps have at least a crab or two, but it happens. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Kurnakov, “how do we know that you’re not just an agent of the U.S. government trying to trap me?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as I live I will never forget those wild eyes, like the eyes of a trapped, savage animal. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flux of circumstances delivered the Laughing Man’s best friend, his timber wolf, Black Wing, into a physical and intellectual trap set by the Dufarges. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Had me a string of traps when I was your age.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The thing about being a fish on a hook is the more you try to get off, the more trapped you are. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Brian stood away from the fish trap and shook his head. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it okay? I mean, if it turns on again, will we be trapped inside?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Day Seventeen: The trap was still standing, as if not even the wind was interested in it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I shouted and beat the side of the calèche, hoping by the noise to scare the wolves from that side, so as to give him a chance of reaching the trap. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Unless I get trapped in New York without a hotel, in a freak late-October blizzard. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She thought that previously, when God did not make the same traps out of the months and years that the Turks used when they measured a yard of percale, things were different. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Out of their talk of traps came my plan of trap-springing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So they think the person behind the bombings has more bombs and is trapped in here with us?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“The brightness that led us straight into a trap?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He remembers the sound of people half-dead around him, moaning and tapping on the walls of the train, whispering hoarsely for help, words that only those who were also trapped and injured could possibly hear. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius belched the gas of a dozen brownies trapped by his valve. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why’n’t he just get a rat trap and put his head in it?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the Indians left, the industries and businesses in and around their territories closed up too: small-time fisheries, hunting camps, tourist traps. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The Hephaestus cabin had set up traps around the entrance to the Labyrinth—razor wire, pits filled with pots of Greek fire, rows of sharpened sticks to deflect a charge. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’s doing something I can’t quite see, but a moment later, I hear a click—as though a lock was tripped or a trap disarmed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But she only sat in the chair, turning her fingers over slowly, staring at them expressionlessly, trapped. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entire western half of the isle at the center of Paris was trapped inside those walls. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You know, someone told me, or I read it somewhere, that it takes about a week for scent to die away. How long has it been since you made those traps?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zoe rushed forward, but Artemis said, “Stop! It is a trap. You must leave now.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Once Burr extended his demands to cover their entire public careers, and then also refused to recognize the traditional distinction between personal and political criticism, Hamilton was truly trapped. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

First day after lunch I work like a demon dragging traps to my skiff. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were fast and irregular, like a pair of trapped moths. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s dead obvious from the shock trapped in Dr. Chin’s raised eyebrows after meeting Troy and Emilio that he got no forewarning about the nontraditional family next door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Joey shouted back over the din, “They must all be trapped in there!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rigged up a figure-four trap under the log, and baited it with elder berries rolled into a ball. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My loneliness feels like a dark cloud that could be trapped and put in a jar. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful sight to behold, the struggle of the carp to regain his abode before the river dried to a trickle and trapped him in strange pools of water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor had said we were lucky the trap hadn’t broken any bones. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you’re trapped?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Don’t think it didn’t bother me, the way those traps sat all summer, stacked four deep against the back of Dad’s toolshed. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Burger had never liked or trusted Dasch, and it crossed his mind that Dasch might be leading him into a trap. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“It seems so odd to us, Madam, that she should have let herself be trapped like that in the cabin. She was so experienced in a boat.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I did not dare to argue with Laertes further, lest he trap me into admitting my love for Hamlet But I would not grant his point. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Her dream was for us to take a bus trip across the country. Stop in little towns. Visit all the tourist traps.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

We all look like ants marching in this dust straight into a giant trap where we’ll be stuck or where we’ll be fed poison that we inadvertently spread to the rest of the group. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Nathan couldn’t figure out why it hadn’t fallen for the trap. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Genie and Ernie couldn’t set the trap up in the yard—Grandma was always out there. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Most of them had assumed the wine with nothing in it was a trap and placed it toward the end of the spectrum. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I am trapped on this island, where I killed those poor, poor dogs. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Doubletree Mutt put his stupid nose in the trap and got it smacked, and shrieked with agony and limped away with blood on his nostrils. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the cop ordered him to shut his trap. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was of brown glass and the light of the kerosene lamp was reflected in it as if there was a little genie trapped inside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. I got caught in a trap once when I was a kid. How old is your brother?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The stormy weather kept the big British warships from laying their trap in the East River. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sound seemed to be trapped for an instant in the thick timber. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But returning to his ship, he was trapped in an ambush. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I glimpse Asher and Hammie hovering near the center to the archway, flying in tight circles as they are trapped in by two other beasts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Break free of the skin-seeping smell of people who are more than happy to be trapped here. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m very glad I could help you two save a library from turning into a cheap, Floo-powdered World of Wizardry tourist trap,” she continued, her voice shaky. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

And that was precisely when I totally figured out how I—Finn Easton—could never have been trapped in my dad’s novel in the first place. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

His life is as dark as an unlit coal mine; he’s trapped in the prison of his own fear, anger, agony, despair. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon,” he says, glancing around with intense brown eyes, as though he’s surveying the room in case he needs materials to build a last-minute booby trap. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body and voice shook as if trapped in one of Ruth’s fits. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their two small children, left with their grandmother, were trapped in a town that had been taken over by the Germans during the summer of 1941. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I think, This is what it must feel like to be trapped in quicksand. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Shucks, a whole hour and a half trapped in a car with him. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Then tell him to keep his trap shut and let us ask the questions.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Thirteen for each trap and I got all summer to catch ’em. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘These lights? They’re all round us now. Are we trapped? Who are they?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

So while Ernie let Samantha lick his sadness away, Genie, on Day Sixteen, ventured off to the yellow house to check the trap. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A starling trapped in the house flew up the stairs to the second floor. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Do you think we need to worry about any more traps out here?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He set out the big bear traps hoping to get a fat bear before they all went into their dens for the winter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made a perfect half circle in front of the synagogue doors, like a steel trap with gaping jaws ready to be sprung. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped to see its soul trapped inside its head. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they even fished in the Big Buckwater River, or set traps in the woods, and thus caught rabbits or squirrels and added a little variety to their food. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had no choice but to go through this door, even though Reynie had no answer to his last burning question: What if it was a trap? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

After tying the strands together he made them into a loop, which enabled him to trap—with great cunning—the birds, without their even knowing they were in danger. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to set his big fish traps later in the week, and if the catch was good, he would let her bring us some fish. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I vowed that if I lived through this ordeal, I would not touch a single one of those animals they trapped and killed out there on the hillside like innocent children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if setting a trap solved the horned toad problem, Nali still wanted the fence fixed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The area was heavily mined, thick with Bouncing Betties and homemade booby traps. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt better the next morning, but she got a nasty surprise when she made a tour of the animal traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to wriggle forward, but the trap was already stuck to her abdomen. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Henry felt as if he were trapped under the weight of it all. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When you set those traps up you’re supposed to hide somewhere nearby, so you can put the dead down real quick. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

David Oddsson believed that Fischer felt “trapped” in Iceland in general, and Reykjavik in particular. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bent over, shivering, examining a trap, not liking the scaly look of the tails of the muskrats and yet not liking to see them caught in the traps. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must have looked into our eyes and seen the shining idolatry there and understood that she was trapped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes," said Tertius, warily, as if her words guarded some trap. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They like to come up to the light because it is so, so pretty like something they want, and then they get trapped in there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t let her stay trapped in a place she didn’t want to be. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It someone needs to get to an airfield and you can get them there, by taxi Anson or motorbike or pony trap or pig-a-back, you should always take them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Real casual, he allows as how if I was to drag a grapple along the bottom, I might hook up on my traps. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My hands are totally and completely trapped now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The seniors chased him and trapped him, like a snarling wolf, up against the emergency exit door. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another man was fallen, trapped beneath his injured horse, both of them screaming in pain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But despite the rattle of the wagon’s wheels, Inej could tell Kaz’s breathing had gotten worse—shallow, rapid pants like an animal caught in a trap. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was almost suppertime when me and Howard rode our bikes back to Gus and Bertha’s and checked the trap one more time. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe even more important, it gave the average citizen—trapped in Philadelphia and at the mercy of the mysterious killer—cause for hope. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I poke the comers of the clothes in between the wringers and they are grabbed and dragged through, the arms of the shirts ballooning with trapped air, suds dripping from the cuffs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wobbling, almost falling, he finally managed to trap it between his fingers and pull it out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Papa told me to go down in the canebrakes back of our fields and trap. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached his trap, the young man saw that he had caught a small bird. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The sphere came to rest in a sand trap near the outer wall. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I made sloppy moves, I overlooked traps, I let myself be cornered and captured. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

When she put her hand in through the top trap door, he cringed and forced himself back into the corner. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I want to move, but am trapped in a cocoon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Though my arms are trapped, I rock my body to try to seal the quilt around me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She shook her head from side to side, her mouth moving with trapped words. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ducking underneath the offensive line, Winchell took the snap from center and handed the ball to Billingsley on a tackle trap. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning Mr. Tanner reported to Miss K and Miss K reported to her class that no mice had been caught in Mr. Costa’s traps. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the mines and my father, trapped, unable to reach sunlight, buried forever in the darkness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My heartbeat was fluttering, making me think of trapped butterflies, but did I even have a heartbeat right now? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If I’m trapped there and my mother is trapped there too, then that just means I have my mom. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You led us straight into that death trap!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Catharsis could only gather around the theme of love, which, considering that they were strangers trapped in an opera box, was far more uncomfortable than cathartic. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She said it so easily that I felt like I’d walked into a trap, into something I wouldn’t be able to handle once it arrived. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

And so it stayed trapped inside him, poisoning him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I call into the hallway, thinking of the way my feet got so cold when I was trapped in the rain the other day. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Eric continues down the hallway, away from me, and I try not to stare as the Candor woman stumbles past me, her hair still trapped in the fist of the Dauntless soldier. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered that detail from the old legend—how Skeleton Woman dug big pits in the ground to trap her victims. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then Lee said slowly, in a strange, soft, slow tone of voice, “Soldiering has one great trap.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were crazy if they thought he was going to spend a whole year of his life like some animal, trapped on a remote Alaskan island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I felt trapped, bound tight by his familiar glances. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He breaks his way into the trap more easily than I would have figured and grabs the lobster, who starts waving his powerful claws around. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

His trappings of scarlet and gold flapped about him in wild tatters. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He struggled against the trap, scratching at it with his claws. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When we got to Gus and Bertha’s, we set the trap up over by the bushes at the edge of the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Seems as if they're working on a condensation trap to purify some water, and though I’m thoroughly impressed that they even know what a condensation trap is, they’re going about it all wrong. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dad pushes a checker close to mine, and I’m trapped. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

As if everyone trapped in this hole didn’t know they were in trouble. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I want sponsors to see I can hunt, that I'm a good bet because I won't be lured into traps as easily as the others will by hunger. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“So you decided to spring a trap for me?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It feels like I’m going to get trapped in here with whatever little oxygen there is. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We are, all of us, trapped in a pocket of unending violence. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Once they take you, they don’t let go. You’ll be trapped in the spirit world if you go there to find her.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They’d heard him banging away on the metal, calling out, but no one could locate a way into the double hull where he’d trapped himself. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And girls who only wanted to learn were trapped inside homes that had become like jails. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I am full of hate for the boy who caused the accident that has me trapped in my bed and I know that not a good thing. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The green kite drew closer yet, now rising a little above us, unaware of the trap I’d set for it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I guess the easiest way to put it is, it became a slum building—a death trap—which was crazy because it was such a nice place when the Brysons had it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

All the cages she had seen in her visions; the glimpses of the fay trapped within them—she knew now that they had been imprisoned there by this woman. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I was trapped. I couldn’t get free, and the van left without me. It took me this long to get back here.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even an ant’s just got its own one life to live, and I did consider this briefly as I crouched down and dropped a partly squashed ant into an ant lion’s trap. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls shook, and I tried hard not to think about being trapped in cold seawater for eternity. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

From the back, a loud whisper broke the silence: “Close it, or you’ll trap flies!” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The leopard would be thinking of how she might trap the hare or some small buck to eat, and of the caves in which she could hide away during the day. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

But in the circle of Isengard, trapped and alone, it was not easy to think that the hunters before whom all have fled or fallen would falter in the Shire far away.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was trapped now, tricked into trying something that could never work. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it remained too hot in the courtroom despite this; the trapped heat wouldn’t dissipate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Captain Short was still trapped in the manor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Its powerful magnetic field, amplified during the collapse, traps charged particles rather as the much tinier magnetic field of Jupiter does. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he started to lick, she snapped her knees together like a vise, trapped his head in the folds of her skirt, and reached down and grabbed him by the hair. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That would be your mother, I believe...Medusa’s two children were trapped inside her, unable to be born. When the original Perseus cut off Medusa’s head—” “Two children sprang out,” Annabeth remembered. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Leo was just forming the thought Where's the other dwarf? when he heard a click behind him and realized he’d led his friends into a trap. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All I could hear was her breath, trapped behind cupped palms. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was a trap to make her become careless. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t move, he was trapped, and there were Pope’s small black eyes, very close, staring into his own. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the strain of trying to make friends with Hooper and failing, of anticipating his cunning, all the fear of the unknown traps he might lay, would be gone. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But as I journey into night, I feel more and more trapped, suffocated by the slippery bindings, unable to emerge until I have transformed into something of beauty. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Trujillo was doing all the crazy things of a trapped animal. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Glub, glub," the stone said, and when the stonecutter raised his head to look at the stone, he saw the beseeching eyes of a trapped creature. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He saw he was trapped in deep icy mud. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I have worried, of course, that Mr. Loomis might use Faro to lead him to my new hiding place and trap me here while I was sleeping. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’s pleased when I show him I can still set the trap that leaves an enemy dangling by a leg from a tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re the one who trapped me! What are you going to do, you pudgy human?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ivy remembered arguing with her, telling her that being trapped in a dark dungeon would be an adventure. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was only one route out of the trap they were in, and that was a narrow defile ahead, where a dry riverbed emerged from a fold in the cliffs. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Symbol of Shamash, the patron god of kings, and the guy who had a magical net capable of trapping all sorts of terrible evils. You're very lucky to have such a powerful gift." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Another creature trapped in a situation she didn’t want to be in. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nin stared at the thing like it was a bear trap, full of metal teeth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was trapped in so many cross turns. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this a trap? Are you sending us to another sorceress? Is she evil, like you and your kind?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Was she trying to ruin me, or was this a trap set by some secret enemy of the movement waiting outside the door with cameras and wrecking bars? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are even sites where fences and obstacles were erected in order to create artificial traps and slaughtering grounds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bombs have collapsed the hospital roof and set the building on fire, effectively trapping the patients within. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Finding itself trapped, surrounded by predators, it would beat itself to death trying to get free. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was seventy-nine and trapped inside a decaying body. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A coyote with her paw in the trap. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She took two of the now-useless fish traps, plugged the small ends, and hung them by long ropes from the highest branch of the lucky-bean trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite feeling terribly dizzy, he managed to find four of his fellow firefighters trapped almost out of sight under parts of the second-floor ceiling that had collapsed into the first floor. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

To alleviate this, the Ptolemies legitimized their power by adopting the trappings of old-time pharaonic rule. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Her father, her Deydey, was in the fur trade business, which meant that he was often gone, paddling the great canoes for the fur company or sometimes trapping animals himself. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

If being a man meant always having to act confident and never being able to admit feeling sadness or self-doubt, it was just as much of a trap as being a woman was. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was trapped in the moment that I lost my dog forever. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“And don’t look at how your mom’s trapped, with the handcuffs and all. I’m sure...I mean, she’ll have a defense attorney, of course, and...” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had spent most of his years alone and trapped by his flightless body. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

More than 150 people had been hurt—carried away by the river of molasses, trapped in crushed buildings, struck by flying metal when the tank exploded. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

In May, there was no water in San Francisquito Creek, just a few spots where puddles had been trapped in some of the deeper depressions of the bed. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

So I was trapped in the ER, waiting, harassed by Tyler’s constant apologies and promises to make it up to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be trapped in the void. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When he felt the trappings being taken off him, so that he was in hunting order, Cully did make some movements as if to rouse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I race through the hospital like a trapped wild animal. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt like the muskrats, one moment she had seen them diving and swimming in the river, and then suddenly click! and they were caught fast in the trap. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ant struggled in the soft, sandy trap until a pair of pincers suddenly reached up and grabbed it, thrashed up a little dust, and pulled it under. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our nation declared a war on people trapped in racially segregated ghettos—just at the moment their economies had collapsed—rather than providing community investment, quality education, and job training when work disappeared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The massive teeth snapped like a bear trap. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were darting back and forth now like a hare caught in a trap, looking from the vines to the approaching warriors to the vines again with visible panic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Soon every Dauntless in the building will rush toward us from every angle, and we will be trapped in this pale maze. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looks unnerved that I know this; for all she knows, I'm a spy sent to trap her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘See! Some of the Southrons have broken from the trap and are flying from the road. There they go! Our men after them, and the Captain leading.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux exploded, “Because I was trapped with these idiots!” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The other nets the invader and traps them for either interrogation or execu-tion, depending on the captors’ preference. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They had an unpleasant musky smell but she still didn’t like to see them held fast in the traps. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For fifteen years, she and the others had survived in hiding, trapped in this citadel of murdered gods and scraping a meager existence from it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She went off to harvest the birdlime traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a frantic trapped feeling came over him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dustfinger caught a rabbit he didn’t take it out of the trap until he was quite sure the poor thing had stopped wriggling. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The knight's leg was trapped, the arm he'd used to break his fall twisted at a grotesque angle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had seen crows and one other raven in traps but never with this kind of rage. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell if he’s asleep or just trapped in the same Jell-O mold across the room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, he sought to discover any trap or pitfall lurking in his “opponent’s” position and respond accordingly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Still, in the beginning the bigger birds would try the smaller cars, get trapped, and raise holy Hannah trying to get out before the tourists drove off with them trapped inside. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not that I really expected a booby trap. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Harvard men beat a hasty retreat, but two of them were knocked down in a doorway and then stomped on, and two others were trapped against a wall and beaten viciously. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I wonder whether he’s just given me permission to speak to her, or if he’s trying to trap me for having done so. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I rub it, looking down to a frill of seaweed, bits of rope, and a broken lobster trap caught between the huge rocks at the water’s edge. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt trapped and occasionally, for a few days, I would stop reading. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not uncommon to find a lobster trap washed up onshore, but to find a live lobster inside? Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The huge steel city—and thousands trapped inside—was sinking to the bottom of the sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Something—a sage hen?—was trapped in its talons. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Pollard had delivered a masterpiece of reinsmanship, avoiding the traps and saving ground while minimizing his run along the boggy rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sprayed area had become a lethal trap in which each wave of migrating robins would be eliminated in about a week. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When the nets got tangled, some lazy fishermen would just cut them loose and let the trapped animals die. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They rushed down the river but were suddenly turned by the rapids and hurled against some boulders, then became trapped under a tangle of vines and tree branches. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“A little too perfect, don't you think? What if it’s a trap?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Knabe tried to trap her into saying Dr. King had bewitched them all. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He had noticed no such trap previously on the path. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

That night he happened to be reading The Killer Angels, a novel by Michael Shaara about the Battle of Gettysburg: Then Lee said slowly, “Soldiering has one great trap.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally me and Howard finished and, I swear, you couldn’t hardly even see that trap nestled there in the bushes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Shut your lousy trap,” advised the man who held all power in that hour. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was afraid to accelerate for fear of running into a speed trap. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no doubt that their chariot had all kinds of mechanical traps and more fancy options than a fully loaded Maserati. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Our daughter was trapped in the trunk of your son’s car, while she was removing the dynamite Red had stored there.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d rather be outside with the people attacking the ship than trapped like this. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I was approaching the house, I was putting out my hand, I was choosing the trap I would take...” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Washington and Rochambeau rapidly changed their plan: They would head south to Virginia with the goal of trapping Cornwallis’s troops gathering at Yorktown, near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had tamed the bush, and in return it yielded them their food and their scant living from trap lines and a wood lot, but the struggle to keep it in subjection was endless. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which means I have to get through the rest of this weekend, like a tongue trapped in a shut mouth. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The glass panes in the windows are stained gray as trapped smoke, making the light strange. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Let’s scout around the palace. Maybe we can find some extra Greek fire or Hephaestus traps.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We’re not trapped by the fire, but the forest still makes us hard to find. Rescuers might come, but maybe too late for Jay.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The growing spatial mismatch of jobs had a profound impact on African Americans trapped in ghettos. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If I could deck her I would, but I'm trapped in a hole in the dark, so all I can do is listen as she keeps talking. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Copyright traps have featured in mapmaking for centuries. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He frowned at his fingers, trying to pull them out of the trap. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You lack a set of spinnerets, and you lack know-how. But cheer up, you don’t need a web. Zuckerman supplies you with three big meals a day. Why should you worry about trapping food?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I miss the old trappings— trappings that disclosed a different reality. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caution murmured it could be a trick, a lure, a trap. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self rejection. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Caught in a lush, green trap, Indian villages could not possibly have grown as large as he reported—indeed, Meggers once proposed an upper limit of a thousand on their population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And unlike them, she could fish and trap game. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He hesitated again, wondering if this was some cruel trap. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was always a terrifying moment of emptiness when that happened: What if she got trapped in there and no one came to get her? Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s the traps, isn’t it? The number of steps you took would bring you almost exactly to the one behind the Institute Control Building.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The preacher, Don Joaquín, was slight, with child-size hands, delicate shoulders, and a thin neck trapped inside the collar of a starched shirt. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He would then lead the herd into an open area of the forest where he would change back into human form, then trap and shoot the pigs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Pong felt trapped—squeezed by the walls of the temple, by the walls around his heart. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He was trapped on a godforsaken island, alone, and mauled within an inch of his life by a white monster bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

What traps have the Gamemakers hid den to liven up the slower moments? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One snowy evening in late February, when even Dad was trapped in the house, he suddenly erupted over the newspaper. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Assuming you don’t incinerate all record of me when you’re done with it, what I’d love to capture, to trap here for eternity in amber, is how exciting it was to come here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He always acts like there’s a trap somewhere and he’s not about to get caught in it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His jacket was undone and there was a wedge of fat trapped between the top of his pants and the seat belt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I laugh at the ingenuity of my poor, trapped countryman. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A diamond necklace caught in a lobster trap. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In setting the trap for Faro, I had exposed an important secret: I had a gun and bullets. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He felt trapped like a worm in a nut. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still trapped, but now maybe there was some wiggle room. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He trapped fireflies in matchboxes so he would not inhale them in his sleep. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Figure out of two hundred traps I’ll get back half, eventual. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you left too much xent around when you made those traps,” he said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But some part of my brain had trapped his single word of reply and let it swim up through my dreams to taunt me now. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Though we must check the trap for a more accurate number.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He wakes in distant quarters of the night and sees Frederick in his bedroom in Berlin, wearing his eyeglasses and necktie, freeing trapped birds from the pages of a massive book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As he walked he recalled the boy’s constant references to being trapped, his fear of crowds and cities. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

By reading and typing text, you made your way through the virtual world, collecting treasure, fighting monsters, avoiding traps, and solving puzzles until you finally reached the end of the game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He made a sound like someone had let the air out of him, and when he fell backward, his desk trapping him against the floor, Grace pinned him and punched him again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sticky said, glancing all around, as if the trap might sneak up and grab him. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was jumping through bushes, hoping I didn’t hit any booby traps, avoiding anything that looked like it might be a step easier. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For users who don’t know how to get past this second security shell, they’ll get trapped entirely in the darkness. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You never set traps for mice, do you?” she asked. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As an added discomfort, they were all young, attractive, and well dressed, causing me to feel not unlike Pa Kettle trapped backstage after a fashion show. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He is afraid of walking into a trap. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I had simply left too much scent around my traps. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She guessed the ship was a regular mortal vessel anchored for the night, but if she was wrong and the ship was a trap . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

To be trapped at the summit, where the wind was coldest and strongest, was too dangerous. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Either way,” Bennie said, “it does speak to Izzy’s whole theory that we just walking into a great big trap, doesn’t it?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then we heard it, the sound, and Jimmy Latham said, ‘What was that? ’; and I told him what it was—the trap door. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used the wall for support and tapped the floor in front of her with her crutch to make sure there were no traps. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The government must've found something at the hospital and wants to lure me into a trap. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

If I bring ’em out three at a time I can be fishing all two hundred traps in a couple of weeks. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I was four or five feet up in the air, trapped and weak. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might still be trapped in the pit, but he was alive. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m no longer floating in an ocean, but standing in a cavern encircling me, trapping me in. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A brave sailor, balancing on the stern, hacked at the glass with an ax, trying to free the trapped people. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This complex and exceedingly efficient government operation was completed while residents of New Orleans were trapped in attics and begging for rescue from rooftops and highway overpasses. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My mother’s greatest fear was that I would end up paying the black tax, that I would get trapped by the cycle of poverty and violence that came before me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had one of my arms trapped beneath his knee, but with the other, I reached out, desperately searching for the dropped revolver. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They borrowed a female in an interesting condition and set their trap under the cypress tree at the top of the vacant lot. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an open space with few hiding places, and I scoured the area for signs of a trap, but as far as I could tell, Marcus was alone. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“There you are,” I say, falling already into the trap of addressing her like a child. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Genie, startled, tripped the string and set off the trap. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The cattle had been driven from the trap in the arroyo to the corral, where they could water in the pond. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Papa told me to be a little more careful where I set my traps. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because right now he could be the boy I ran into in the woods years ago, the one who accused me of stealing from his traps. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Would they come with him and render assistance to his friends, many of whom were lying trapped beneath the cart, crying out for help? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Where we went in Wisconsin to fish, using a fish trap carried a five-dollar fine. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman said Harriet was clumsy, slow, no help at all, so the man set her to watching his trap lines. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone presses in and I’m trapped, like I’m in a crowded elevator. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She had to make the maze more dangerous, more spectacular—make Pasiphaë focus on the traps rather than the direction the Labyrinth was leading. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“But if what Abby picked up from Tater is correct, he is trapped inside that bathroom. Remember? She mentioned cups wrapped in plastic and one big water bowl.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

What happened to the man who lost his foot in Uncle Louver’s trap? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then again, this was a trap meant for gods. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be stupid. I’m seventeen, you idiot. Of course I don’t get tired of parties. You know what, you’re an old man trapped in the body of a seventeen-year-old guy.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Despite the many trappings of civilization at Base Camp, there was no forgetting that we were more than three miles above sea level. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmie got into a foxhole, but was trapped in the crossfire. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scraping noises; and then, like the gates of the Western Paradise, the trap door would open, lowering into the basement an almost intolerable beam of light. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It snorted and stamped and whipped its head back and forth, trying to pull itself free, but it was trapped. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

That gulf of experience encouraged Pizarro to set his trap and Atahuallpa to walk into it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody agreed to this deal: the Agricultural Revolution was a trap. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s probably a reason this magiciangirl18 is hiding from the Bureau. What if she’s Moreau’s apprentice? What if this is how they get to you? You could be walking into a trap.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It would be trapped in lunar orbit unless its engine worked properly to start it on the trip back to earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At two minutes before four in the afternoon, his father sprang the trap. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I had feared that her sharp, stubborn mind, caught in her self-made antihelical trap, might dig up irrelevant results that would foster uncertainty about the correctness of the double helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Piper wasn’t happy about that, but she stood obediently on the beach, squinting up at the cave entrance and hoping she hadn’t guided Frank into a death trap. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Only Tayo could hear it, like fingernails scratching against bare rock, her terror at being trapped in one of the oldest ways. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They sound to me like ghosts, or like animals caught in a trap: thin wails of exhausted pain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His thought raced like a rat new caught in a wire trap. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know, it seems confusing, but just picture every cartoon trap you ever seen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The very walls of the room made her feel trapped; even with the window opened wide it felt as thewgh there were no air to breathe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With a sharp jerk, the net trap scooped her up and slammed her against the side of a tree. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

End of two weeks all two hundred traps are fishing and I’m pulling twenty-five a day by hand. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Carry salt with me wherever I go so that I can throw it at her and trap her and question her about my mother? Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He filled with gas, the sealed valve trapping it just as one pinches the mouth of a balloon. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His legs felt trapped, but people kept pushing. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The projector’s light traps a galaxy of swirling skin flakes and popcorn husks in the air. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He was eager to work, and when I set him down through the trap door in the wire mesh of the maze, he moved swiftly along the pathways to the reward box. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent most of his years alone and trapped by his flightless body. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I went for a wing first, pulling apart the spindly double bones and getting all the meat trapped there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep in mind that the police are allowed to lie. They can say anything to you. Set any kind of trap.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Bod realized that he was trapped when he heard the lock turn in the door. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Averaging a pound and a half per trap, keeper size, and more crab than I know what to do with. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The worst part of the Pathfinder trip was being trapped in the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded like there was a bird trapped inside trying desperately to get out. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“It will end the game even if I am trapped in the fire and not dead.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But just to be safe, she scanned the ground for traps. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What if this is a trap? What if it’s what they expect us to do?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I arbitrarily picked eight hours for the test duration, so I was trapped in the rover until then. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was almost nothing about me that wasn’t in his book, that didn’t trap me into being something invented by someone else. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I reckon he figured if all the blood and bits of bone and brains got trapped in the oilcloth, Loma Baby wouldn’t be mad at him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One last log spins, trapped in a swirl of current. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Why did Atahuallpa walk into what seems to us, with the gift of hindsight, to have been such a transparent trap? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All those traps in the back of the bear wagon made Mary Lou nervous. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“For your information, I’ll be fishing all two hundred traps,” I go, bragging on my own idea. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

To be trapped in a hotel room with him would be a kind of heaven. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was trapped in the dark pit of the world, but he would not cry. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“See? You should already know what I’m talking about when I say trap music. It should already be on your playlist. Now, what do you like to listen to?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In Not Without My Daughter, Sally Field plays an American woman trapped in Iran with a psycho husband who won’t allow her to leave the country with their young daughter. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“How small the city is. How small they have to make everyone to keep them trapped there.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Celaena pushed a chair into the doorway—it wouldn’t do to have it slam shut on her and leave her trapped forever. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She was trapped on the route to the railroad. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was during supper that she heard the trap go off. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t hurt, it was free, and Genie had wanted to trap it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The day had gone exactly as Link had said it would, but even so, I found myself wondering if he were only building my trust in order to lay a bigger trap for me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Help!" peeps the puppy trapped in the helicopter. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“These become sticky when I turn the power on. When I turn them off, whatever’s trapped is free,” Petey explained. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then I raced back out to the trap with Bertha not far behind, calling, “Wait for me!” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But witches and wizards never reveal their identity, so you never know where their traps lie waiting. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

But, trapped by winter, Descartes shut himself up in a room heated by a stove and sat and sat, and thought and thought. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If they didn't come in daylight to my fire, they won't risk what could be another trap at night. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Moreover, I had trapped myself beneath the table and could neither approach Hamlet nor retreat without being seen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At that point, Grace would have answered questions about the clothes dryer’s lint trap from the lady behind the makeup counter. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There wasn't a town trapped underwater or generations of men with the same name destined to repeat the same mistakes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I am sorry that you were trapped in the oak grove in the water with Reach. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But now Mom sagged back against the chair she was trapped in, and Emma could feel her mother’s despair like it was something contagious. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the Anansi tales, Gum Baby was a doll Anansi used to trap an African fairy while he was on a quest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

What if he’s stuck or trapped somewhere, and faints under the mighty sun? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I allude to the setting of steel traps for catching vermin. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sat down and dug his feet in like a mule when I pulled on the rope to get him out of the trap. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“You thought a piece of Scotch tape would trap them there?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I closed the latch on the door of the trap and hurried inside the house, calling for Bertha. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As soon as he said that, she saw the trap she’d fallen into, and cried out in dismay, “No! Not Malcolm!” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I drive past front yards trapped between holidays, some with inflatable turkeys on the lawn, others with fake snowmen and high-class wreaths on the front door. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

At the angles are funnel-like openings for nets or basket traps. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When she did get it in at last, she had to be careful not to trap its tail in the lid when she slid it closed. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

How long had he been trapped, yelling with unseen friends about the state of the nation and preserving the Union? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

How soon before the fire reached the survivors trapped in this room or before they breathed in too much smoke? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Furball was gone only two days. Matt was trapped for six months. It takes time to recover.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an instant Matt had him trapped inside the bag. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every mouse should end up in a trap so nice,” said Tucker. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tilted her face up, and trapping her against his ribs, kissed her eyes and parted her lips with his tongue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Being trapped in a tiny cage with six other birds goes against every natural instinct of a chicken. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She felt as if she were trapped in a funnel cloud of plants. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Well, this morning I pulled the trap deep into the woods to open it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith does not seem surprised, and I realize he has already guessed that this might be a trap. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His body is his escape from the world, whereas I’m trapped in mine. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny bubbles were trapped in the ice like in Fox’s Glacier Mints. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When he had closed it up, he had inserted three hairs into the zip, trapping them in the metal teeth. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Someone had set a trap in the field, the metal kind that bites an animal until the animal is forced to chew off its own leg. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was trapped in quicksand; would he ever get anything right? Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know why, at the sight of anyone unfamiliar, she felt like a fish trapped in a bowl of ice, unable to even gasp for air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were waiting for Crazy Horse’s signal to spring the trap. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Beneath our feet, the floor was a death trap of broken boards and splinter-lined holes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Because they wouldn’t let him. They decided he had to be a certain way, and he was trapped. He couldn’t be anything except for what he was,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The young man bent down and took the blind man’s bird from the trap. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A seemingly colorblind system has emerged that locks millions of African Americans into a permanent undercaste, and it appears that those who are trapped within it could have avoided it simply by not committing crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was trapped on this side of the road, away from my uncles, and the river was too flooded to swim across to the village and the safety of my grandfather’s home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tad rescued me instead and got trapped with the rest of us.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Boyle found that if the pressure was doubled, the volume of trapped air was halved; if the pressure was tripled the volume was reduced to a third; and so on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It did wonderfully during the boom, but then he got trapped in the bust. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait, you idiot! It might be a trap!” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Vast numbers of them are trapped far above the clouds and are condemned to bounce from pole to pole until by chance they encounter some high-altitude atmospheric molecule and are removed from the radiation belt. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would simply have to ambush it with whatever sense I had left, or it would trap me in its stupid cage for fifty years without any sense at all. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The voyagers had traveled 600 miles since Endurance was first trapped in the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

All I knew then was that even though my body was two thousand miles away, my mind was still trapped in Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days a hunter would shoot or trap animals just to feed his own family, perhaps his village. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You said I have to meet you halfway, but you need to pick me up from home. It’s not a trap, I swear.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But Kelton is like an animal in a trap, and he’s ready to chew off his own foot to escape. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Zlata was trapped in her basement while she heard bombs going off and people screaming. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe the library will become filled with books with the trapped world of prisoners' thoughts concealed between the lines. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had pushed his body against hers, pushing her dress right up above her knee and had trapped her where the shelves met at right angles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“No. It isn’t a trap. The best thing you can do is see her. Teresita won’t hurt you. She works only for good. It is her wisdom that finds the lost and turns the wicked.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Never was a body found. He brought his brothers back to find it and there sat the trap, still snapped shut. All that was left was an old boot.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Would you rather be trapped in a car for three days with Baby Brit or with Coop?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

You are falling into an obvious imperialist Yankee trap. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

My refuge from the nightmare of Plaszów was now a trap. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Between the other vendors—totally beaten and ailing itinerants whose names are something like Buddy, Pal, Sport, Top, Buck, and Ace—and my customers, I am apparently trapped in a limbo of lost souls. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt sorry for those trapped birds, whose skinny legs were plucked to reveal spurs sharpened into lethal spikes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She gestured for Koffi to follow her across the rugs on hands and knees as the animals and beastkeepers trapped inside the burning tent continued screaming. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Got a dozen traps set in close to the rock where the lobsters like to hide. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The idea is very simple, despite its magical trappings: in viewing the universe, every place is as good as every other place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t like being trapped by the puffy blue wall like this though. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

American and French soldiers travel to Yorktown, where French warships close the trap on British troops. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her the door slammed shut on its own, and an icy chill ran over Ophie’s skin as she realized she was trapped. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I took an item out of my inventory, a wand that could detect hidden traps, magical or otherwise. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Thousands of the free folk are gathered there, trapped and starving, and we have had reports of dead things in die wood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It might have been cozy, if not for the animal traps set up in a perimeter around the place, jagged-toothed things trailing chains. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were people trapped in the glass paperweight on the policeman’s desk. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also defined as someone who had a lot of money or at least the trappings of money: a big car, an expensive watch, or expensive clothes. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The conflagration prevented her from entering the building when she realized there were people and animals trapped inside. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It now dawned on Harry, however, that the cup of cold tea on which he had trodden that morning might not have been a booby trap at all. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her arms were pinned, which meant at any moment the vial trapped between them might break...and that would be extremely bad for their health. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He sat on his bed with his notebook and imagined himself trapped in a staticky TV. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He did not like the feeling of blood trapped in his head. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he's trapped here, with no way to help Eden. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The distant voices and faraway footsteps he kept hearing echoed through the chamber, like the voices of ghosts trapped in the walls. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I mean...okay, the kid is basically a grumpy seventy-year-old man trapped in a seventeen-year-old’s body, but he’s only being this insufferable to try to push you out.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If I don’t escape before they come back, I’ll be trapped in this frigid room all night. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know. I thought he was down looking at his traps.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were caught like rats in a trap. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We had fallen into the trap, up to our necks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the crushed hood lay the tattered, glistening remains of a giant silk cocoon—the trap that Annabeth had tricked Arachne into weaving. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Next time he would do better; he had let Britten trap him on that Communist business. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

How fascinating, they will likely say, that a drug war was waged almost exclusively against poor people of color—people already trapped in ghettos that lacked jobs and decent schools. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“That box on wheels was a death trap—not to mention its transmission was shot to hell.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that I’m not the only one that’s been caught. There’s irony in three of the greatest experts in robotics in the world falling into the same elementary trap, isn’t there?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Agloe, New York, is a fictitious village created by the Esso company in the early 1930s and inserted into tourist maps as a copyright trap, or paper town. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In his last two years at Duke, for all his early infatuation with the social life and trappings of wealth, Farmer quit his fraternity and began concentrating on his studies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“But you trapped him here when you built your dam. He has been angry about it ever since.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s not the sort to run into a burning building and get himself trapped.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘What was the worst thing about being trapped in that block, Salim?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself singing aloud this song that filled my head like the buzz of a trapped fly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When the lawyer realized what was happening he grabbed an ax, lunged outside bellowing dementedly, trapped one attacking dog inside the chicken pen, and literally hacked the squealing mongrel to pieces. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it kinda weird that the traps didn’t work if they love jelly bean fish so much?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And so different from them, besides, like the calico lobsters that turned up in traps very rarely and always with great to-do. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, he laid one last trap for the FBI. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cave wasn’t really comfortable: The ceiling was too low, and she hated the feeling of being trapped. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was born in Lowe River in the tiny parish of Trelawny, Jamaica, hours away from the tourist traps that line the coast. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He pulled up the door and jumped back, as if a host of black outlaws waited in a trap. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“No, baby. Those places are traps. That kinda debt is impossible to get rid of. I’ll figure something out.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Behind her the walls of the room were flooded with green and yellow and orange fireworks sizzling and bursting to some music composed almost completely of trap?drums, tom?toms, and cymbals. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she heard Mr. Curtain send S.Q. away, and suspecting a trap, she beat a quick retreat down the culvert to the shore. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon sun, trapped beneath a wall of pewter, stained the clouds a yellowish gray, making the sky unusually bright. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get up, but I was trapped. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Plus, it gives our game its first booby trap.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I’d never thought anything of it until the day I felt trapped out there. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The heat trapped inside the auditorium during the whole stupid summer turned up a degree or two with each new ditto. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Staying because of Kara and Locke and all that they will never be except trapped. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“What kind of man puts traps like that in a field? What is he trying to catch?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

How terrible it must be to remain trapped where one had no place, where nothing ever mattered or could change anything. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see how it can be a trap, and anyway we can always run.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She unlocked two bolts on the front door and waved her hand in the air, saying, “Smells like I got a mouse in one of those traps.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect trap, he said, for everyone. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was a danger, I instantly knew, that the feeling of power, even temporary, could possibly draw me in, could trap me the way that the temporary relief of drugs trapped people. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Memories can be trapped in a room, and this one still held all the years that she'd come in this window full of righteous malice. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hemming in the remaining Jews like animals in a trap. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We were each a man trapped inside a boy's body. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He now found himself trapped in a demanding relationship at an age when he no longer saw himself capable of tumultuous love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were setting the traps, I said. Not checking them.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a good idea. If he walks into the trap himself—alone, of his own volition—there’s not much way it can be traced to us.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

No matter how much you poisoned them, shot them, scared them, trapped them, hated them, caged them, or generally raked over their habitat, you could not entirely kill all the coyotes, Joe thought. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in a boat full of trapped fish almost under the bloodshot eye of the sheriff. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

How long was she going to be trapped? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“They won’t let me turn the comer!” he once exclaimed, “I’m caught in a trap!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached home it was too late in the day to start making my traps. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would all be trapped as surely as coneys in a snare. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him six Recruiters crept forward in a semicircle, trapping my brother between them and the dense trees in which I was hiding. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I will ask the ratters to set a trap for him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of inching along the bridge as fast as I can, I give up several precious seconds and set a quick trap for Hammie. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But beneath it she can sense his thoughts fluttering like trapped birds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Each tiresome new thriller includes a scene in which the hero, trapped by some version of the enemy, runs for his desk in a desperate race against time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But he sucked air through clenched teeth and breathed hard, trapping those words inside. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Really, Sticky, you amaze me! A trap is for catching things—or people.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But this time, I trap my terror, push it down, and stay by his side. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly pushed something—a crab trap, perhaps?—down under the water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I sat there by the trap and looked over at Gus and Bertha’s little house nestled on the side of the mountain. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She is frustrated at being trapped in a body that refuses to move. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were so numerous that I could never hope to get rid of them either by traps or with arrows. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moody could see through Invisibility Cloaks. . . he alone could see the full strangeness of the scene: Snape in his nightshirt, Filch clutching the egg, and he, Harry, trapped in the stairs behind them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“And what of our dead, trapped up there?” she asked. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Do what, Swamp Thing? Mess with your stupid traps?” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the evening before the second task, Harry felt as though he were trapped in a nightmare. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Matt saw the red of canyon walls, the heavy green of creosote, and a blue that was the color of the sky trapped between high cliffs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Must be it’s too much work to actually haul up the trap and steal the lobster. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The trap lay on its side at the bottom of a freshly scraped crater at least five feet across. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Once, he’d lured Percy into a trap in the palace of Hades. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nor did the English regard the Dawnland wetu as primitive; its multiple layers of mats, which trapped insulating layers of air, were “warmer than our English houses,” sighed the colonist William Wood. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was only two stories up, but a fall could still mean broken legs, and broken legs would mean that she was just as trapped as she’d been before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe he could see if the Mustang was out there and if Frankie was trapped in this mess with him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

So you have a bunch of regularly-spaced waves that are trapped, bouncing back and forth in a container that fits their wavelength perfectly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It’s less about the mechanics of the traps than the psychology behind them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, it was spikes, traps, and awkward turns that caused her to dislike herself almost as much as she disliked him, though she did not doubt that he was mostly to blame. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even before they reached the traps, the blind man was able to tell that they had caught something. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Tiny glowing faeries are trapped inside for the purpose of adding a warm glow to the room. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Davos tasted a trap, yet he saw no sign of any foes sweeping in behind them, only the great fleet of Stannis Baratheon in their ordered ranks, stretching back to the watery horizon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Working his way hurriedly through the alleys, circles, roundabouts, and barriers, he found himself trapped in a dead end, deadlocked and defeated. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once a day, around noon, a big jug of water was passed in through a trap in the door. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He has a cat's sense for traps—he got it from our mother. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But what sort of trap have they laid that requires such dexterity? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

By these tests, terror is certainly a noun: the terror, terror of being trapped, the terror’s lasting impact. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I should have specifically forbidden it. I forget how curious and daring children can be. And how resourceful. I would never have supposed you were capable of actually trapping one.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We almost screamed when the skin reacted to the salt, jerking and jumping like it was caught in a trap. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Asha tried to slip to her right, but her feet were tangled in some roots, trapping her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Father, please keep your trap shut and let us ask the questions,” urged the major sympathetically. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Bailey closes the jar and the scent and the feeling fade, trapped back inside the glass with its handful of sand. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She was trapped and she took the best possible way out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nick and Glen tried to trap along the sidelines and they called Glen for a foul. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the instant between saying the word and before it sailed off into the air he had clamped his lips shut—and the “but” was trapped in his mouth, all made but not spoken. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were trapped down there, just like everyone else. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pa said he must go to town to trade the furs of the wild animals he had been trapping all winter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, the lobby seemed a spiderweb of trapped psychotic poets and artists. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Layla, that seems dangerous. Are you sure he’s not trying to trap you?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She could pull the fish traps back by means of a string. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there was smoke and her ankle throbbed and she was trapped on the third floor of a bombed building and whatever phone call Dad made to the mayor’s office wasn’t going to help. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He went over basic strategy, how to read the keys for the six sweep and the ten tackle trap and the waggle at eight, what to do depending on how Nimitz lined up on offense. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh...and some of those ice cubes were shaped like rusty bear traps and triple fishhooks, too. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a safety expert at the top of the chain of command, who lives every day with the responsibility for managing risks, the bird traps set out by her underlings are a distant memory. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In that way he had avoided four out of eleven traps. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’ll die out here. My spirit will be trapped forever with those ugly animals watching me. I wish I’d never left home!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The thing that was written on the paper might be a threat, a summons, an order to commit suicide, a trap of some description. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Come back with James, then he'd know I didn't purposely let him walk into a trap. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t set any bait for your trap. You’re not going to catch a thing.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Now I stand in front of the polished wood doors, lit by two lamps of trapped sprites who fly in desperate circles. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The teeth clamp the man’s leg like a trap and he is bleeding bleeding. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth had been tempted, maybe just a little, until she realized the place was a trap, and Percy had been turned into a rodent. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That winter I trapped harder than ever with the three little traps I owned. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo bent down, whisked a smallish fish from the cone-shaped trap, and popped it into a basket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a slow, very clear voice, Tad said, “A friend and I are trapped on the second floor of the school.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Dad had built a maze on Buck’s Peak and trapped me inside it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Encanis was still bound to the wheel, but he no longer howled and fought like a trapped animal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She packed a cooking pot, mealie meal, and matches into the fish trap. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am just far away Tm sorry But the words echo back at me, trapped inside my head. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The walls of the room appeared, and then the floor and the ceiling, and she had the distinct feeling that she was trapped in a box, a lovely cage filled with tapestries and cushions. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Overhead, the emergency lights flickered on and off, buzzing like boxes of trapped flies. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Or a trap. Well, I must be going! And if I were you, I’d do the same!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He trapped snakes and draped them around his neck, where they writhed in sumptuous silvery waves that seemed to tickle. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They are a moment of process, trapped on the canvas. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At one point the bones weighed upon his back and he feared they had trapped him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Facebook, I guess, but I don’t know if Olga even used it. I’m telling you, she was an old lady trapped in a twenty-two-year-old’s body.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

May didn’t allow rat traps in the house, as she couldn’t even bear the thought of a suffering rat. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she’s going to rat on me, she doesn’t need to set a trap. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And the next day, Easter Sunday, Amaka did not join the rest of the young people who wore all white and carried lit candles, with folded newspapers to trap the melting wax. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When his front paws were unstuck, the strange sticky tape trapped his back paws and tail. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then the two of them walked towards the blind man’s trap. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“You fell right into my trap,” he said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“They give us the option to leave, then trap us so that they can later use it against us and portray us as unreasonable. Irrational.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incarcerated men would trap rats, poisonous spiders, and snakes they found inside the prison to pass the time and to keep safe. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird were trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even indoors Devon was a nest of traps for him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three years later, it had followed us onto the water, and now we were trapped with it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sigurd had set a trap for her and her best friend, Ivan, last year. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

First, we realized that finding the Toy Tinker’s truck, which had seemed like such an enormous stroke of luck, had in fact led us into the very trap we should have avoided. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Turning his back on the affluent trappings of Duke, Farmer began sensitizing himself to the centuries-old plight of the the poor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He gathers up the sheet of blue plastic, careful to trap the berries inside, and goes to toss them into the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Yet he could not simply flee the trap: to do so would be to break his trust with the islanders and to leave them to the imminent dragon, undefended. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m trapped under a layer of ice, holding on to what little air I have, drowning under a cold, hard ceiling that’s keeping me from something that can save me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Deep down, part of her believed that marriage—even to a “good” man like William—was a trap. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Note: The straw connected to the trigger makes it so that when the bird eats the flies and sets off the trap, the arm doesn't snap down on the bird’s neck. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He looked around miserably, like a trapped animal searching for a way to escape. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

For Kelly J., I would also put out traps for mice, and catch fish for food. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I fall deep inside me and feel trapped. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sensing a trap, I’m about to let my arrow fly, hoping it finds his heart before the trident impales me, when he shifts his hand and something on his wrist catches the sunlight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every second seeming like a minute keeping me trapped in this lame prison of cool kids and square pizza. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’m crying, frustrated, angry because I let us get trapped. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

People have been known to jump into a trestle barrel if a train comes at the wrong time and they get trapped. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One morning I didn’t get up to run my trap line. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie didn’t know what to say to that, so he just sat there wondering what it must be like to be trapped in a house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Pike and a friend came running down the box alley, drawn by the smoke, and I was trapped. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He leans forward, rests his elbows on his knees, and traps me with an unblinking stare. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The way he talks about getting out—it’s like he thinks we’re trapped. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But what if it’s a trap? The sheriff, setting me up.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The people had no idea they were walking straight into a trap. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We passed what I thought must have been a black wrought iron fence, but it was almost impossible to see, trapped as it was beneath what looked to be raggedy, patchwork blanket. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Was this whole thing a ruse to confuse and trap him? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Joey found one, trapped it in a paper cup, and brought it to me. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my three little traps and a bulldogged determination, I set out to trap Mister Ringtail. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke glanced at his men, and he saw I’d trapped him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Journalistic detachment was one thing, letting lads walk blindly into a trap was another. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t get trapped here, but he might ambush whoever was following him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tad got to be whatever the hell he wanted, and still Tad thought he was trapped. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I was trapped in that book and I couldn’t get out. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’m trapped inside the guardhouse, which means I’m safe from the beast. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gathered around the dining table, and Piper explained what had happened at Topeka 32—their conversation with Bacchus, the trap sprung by Gaea, the eidolons that had possessed the boys. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We knew how to spring traps and ruin a hunter’s aim, but we had no idea if we’d need our skills this time. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I would have happily chopped off the heads of a barrel full of eels to escape another afternoon trapped with men whose voices droned on and on and on like rumbling, dusty grindstones. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muddy banks covered in tangled water plants lead to large rocks that increase in size until I begin to feel somewhat trapped. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Home is Dad on the TV couch and a boat with no engine and a rich kid laughing while he cuts my traps. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Both were working after hours; they were found in the back war room, huddled together, trapped, overcome by fumes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see herself a child, rocking a baby in a cradle, rock, rock, rock; could see herself sick with the measles, walking the length of Cook’s trap line, in winter, shivering, eyes watering. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would show the image over and over again while they read the names of those who were trapped inside, begging for help. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I trap monsters in mirrors! I know a lot of things! Now hop to!” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I see myself getting trapped in an obvious airless pocket. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Because his soul is trapped in his body. Once you close his eyes, it can fly up to Heaven.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He tried to calm himself, to concentrate on finding the Horcrux, but his thoughts buzzed as frantically and fruitlessly as wasps trapped beneath a glass. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t care to see any more traps. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, my lord,” Aelia said, “Daedalus thought you would come. He thought the riddle might be a trap, but he couldn’t resist solving it.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I feel like I died a hundred yards downhill, and now my spirit is trapped here, doomed to haunt this place, reliving the climb, and the thirst, and the flames for all eternity. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Many lay trapped beneath the heavy ladders that had fallen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was trapped by his beard and earlocks, he said, and there was nothing he could do. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She might have been some kind of wanga, a charm sent to trap me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I search the ground for animals and birds that might have been trapped or killed in the fire, providing me with ready-cooked food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Doors of Death needed to be sealed from both sides, how could they do that unless someone stayed in the Underworld, trapped? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They emerged through a trap at the back of a stable, having come perhaps a distance of three blocks under Rhaenys's Hill. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So Mr. Odom showed us how to staple chicken wire to wood and how to screw on hinges for a door, and before long, we had a trap perfect for catching a dog. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We shall have it like a coney in a trap. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She isn’t trapped in the spirit world, and I won’t have to travel through the eclipse to become stuck there for the rest of my life too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

These weren’t typical hunters; the strings of bullets told me they were combatants, probably hungry and unpaid and setting traps for extra food. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk past Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and Madame Tussauds, a tourist trap with wax models of celebrities that people take selfies with and share on Facebook. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She knew something of the dietary habits of owls, and she did not much like the idea of being trapped in his house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of dampness trapped because the sun can’t work its way beneath these balconies. Do you cook?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw us, he stopped and backed up into the far corner of the trap again. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

On the third day, Curt Lemon stepped on a booby- trapped 105 round. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I feel his hand on my cheek and try to trap it, but it dissolves like mist through my fingers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Nature’s booby trap,” Ruza called it, and they left it there, unharmed, to await the next wave of faranji adventurers foolish enough to attempt the crossing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know what to say except, “The booby traps work.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I try to hide it, but Mom knows I’m feeling trapped inside this wide-open room. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Looking up at the swirling tentacles of darkness, Frank felt like he was trapped at the bottom of a flushing toilet bowl. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At one time he must have been caught in a trap and had pulled himself free. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not to walk Cook’s trap lines any more. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my feet don’t listen and my hands start itching and I feel like I’m trapped in cement. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“My friend is on the roof. He’s trapped!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Dozens of people, many of them children, treaded water, checking crab traps and hoisting river prawns up to their parents and friends, who waited up top with buckets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He told me that some of the Marburg monkeys were trapped in a group of islands in Lake Victoria known as the Sese Islands. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His life had consisted of a series of traps and obstacles—all the way back to the Nampa gang—that he’d slip or bump into and come to see as his inevitable fate. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It got trapped in a burning city and escaped, speaking bad French. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I am his prisoner, in the backseat, trapped by child locks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Would I have been able to trap a child, to do what, cut them into pieces? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When all that came of it was this trap—the store, then home to sleep, and back at the store again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“All things would be possible, if only we were going to live. But I have trapped both of us.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

At first, Watson feared that her “sharp, stubborn mind, caught in her self-made...trap” would resist the model. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A weird funnel device was attached to the forges chimney, trapping the smoke and heat and channeling it through a pipe into the floor, next to a big bronze manhole cover. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some part of him was screaming, This is a trap, he is playing with you, the son is just the shadow of the father. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I felt confused and trapped by his tricky words. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The air had died in the cypresses in the courtyard, in the pale trappings of the bedrooms, in the dripping archways of the garden of perennials. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had to wade to see if the traps had been sprung. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were trapped and tapped out of ideas and cash and just waiting to collapse, and I was glad I wouldn't be around to watch it all happen. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Not that I would know what a teacher’s trap would look like. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Joe, there’s a whole family of baby mice in a drawer in the first bedroom. You can get rid of them and set all those traps you brought.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was fanning themselves and wiping sweat, frustrated, trapped on the bus from hell. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The next morning Louis took me to watch as the leopard, in his trap, was loaded into the truck for the long drive to his new hunting grounds. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Last week he’d made an elaborate trap to catch a prairie dog. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He scanned the trail ahead for wires or other traps. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

‘No, he will try to trap the fly and take the sting,’ said Gandalf. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Some days felt like we were trapped in a nightmare,” he said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know until just now how true that really was. I’m afraid I’ve doomed you, Jacob, my sweet friend, to a short life trapped in a dying world.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Supposing the king’s small escort was trapped and overcome, but he escaped into the darkness — alone in the wild fields of Rohan with no idea of where he was in all the endless miles? The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The civilization he meant to build has transmogrified to a forest thick with traps. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall grandfather clock sat at the foot of the stairs, pecking away at the hour as if a crow trapped inside were trying to break loose. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anansi pointed at a pile of leaves beneath the tree, and when Leopard prowled over them, the great cat fell into a hidden trap. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But his eyes had the look of a jaw trap about to close. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I spent hours trapping and skinning and cooking that squirrel, and you not only eat most of it, but then you throw it all up!" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It was as if my life was trapped between two words: run or stay. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, if Hades wasn’t lying, some big trap was going to be sprung in New York by the end of the day, and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There used to be a winch in the trap shack, and that’s where I’m heading when Tyler Croft comes by on his thousand-dollar mountain bike and thinks he sees me cryin’, which he don’t. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Witchlings were having a sleepover that was really a cover for something else: a trap. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But after the landing he was able to crawl free of the aircraft, only to see that Masha and Galya were still trapped in the front cockpit of the burning Pe-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I took a flying leap off the carousel, stretched out my arms, and trapped the baby screecher under my coat. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He became aware of how his body felt in that moment: cramped and trapped. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I heard the hinges on the trap door creak. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he got out of the school, he could tell the firefighters that there was someone trapped on this floor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Of course she had never considered that their father, who could not even trap a mouse, had shot their friend, but the connections seemed jumbled. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No defenders? No giant? This has to be a trap.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were all the coves and creeks where one could fish and set traps. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why Tim put up with your fat, nasty, dirty trap”—Sally folded her arms and jutted her hips out—“for so long before dumping you, I'll never know.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“That explains the missing foot. Still in the trap, I expect.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” he says, “you going to fish a few traps this summer? Good for you, son.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When he had eaten, he felt restless, trapped. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When we got to the trap, Wishbone was digging at the ground beside the wire like he was trying to dig a hole clear through to China. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the trap that snagged him, Flux said, “Smart.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, by the end of the first week I get near a hundred traps in the water, all baited and waiting for visitors. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We went back to Gus and Bertha’s a few times to check the trap, but the table scraps were still in the pie tin. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Of course, she hadn’t known he was still alive and trapped here—she’d immediately assumed the worst—but that didn’t change the truth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then at the ranch house he baited a rat trap with stale cheese and set it where Doubletree Mutt, that good big dog, would get his nose snapped. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama pulled the pitchfork out of the ground, then lightly tapped the open trap with the side of the fork. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At Sunrise there were no prisoners left behind, but evidence of their trapped lives was everywhere. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Its thick pilings caused races in the current that could trap a small boat and maybe even overturn it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, he would have to remain there, alert for any trap the devilish creature might spring . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He waved the fingers of one hand, gripping tightly to the rope of his crab trap with the other. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The horse was barded in bronze- colored trappings dyed to match the rider's cloak and emblazoned with the burning tree. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Now he was trapped in this house full of soldiers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another life, she could have been him—a ghost trapped in a terrible place. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You accusing me, the sheriff of Platt County, of running fish traps?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One does not touch the other: Should an inmate somehow escape from his cell, he’s still trapped inside the building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the earth, the sandy bricks radiated the day’s trapped heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was so heavy that if it fell she was sure she would be trapped down in the darkness forever. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it can make you look like an elegant princess trapped in time. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I cannot show you a tesseract, because we are trapped in three dimensions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good God, kid. Just keep your trap shut till you learn the vernacular, would ya?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Only thing, pulling the traps out of the water turns out to be a whole lot harder than putting them in. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If Clara’s spirit was trapped at Daffodil Manor, it made sense that she had been killed there, possibly by someone who lived there. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Feeling trapped indoors, I prowled from room to room. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I think our best bet will be setting our own trap.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I’ll deal with the hare another time. Right now I want you all here in case there’s a chance of trapping this one,” Cluny murmured. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

No painter trapped on Earth ever imagined a world so strange and lovely. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accepting my environment at its face value, trapped by my own emotions, I kept asking myself what had black people done to bring this crazy world upon them? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why is he willingly walking into a trap? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Eddie was in the back corner, trapped between two seats, struggling and failing to free himself. He asked me to save him. ‘ Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“The workers trap rats when they don’t satisfy me enough to get fed. Some of the grass roots are said to be tasty. I wouldn’t know.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he was old enough to leave the nest, his mother had taken him to see a baited trap in the hotel kitchen and had explained its evils one by one. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“He won his Games with wire. Setting up that electrical trap,” says Peeta. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

These game animals were caught in pit traps, shot with bow and arrow, and run down with dogs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I threw my eyes around in panic like Black Beauty trapped in the flames. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I already feel trapped by my own disappointment. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

What if he knew his own mother ran illegal fish traps? A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he clapped his large hand on the housekeeper’s, like a trap, as she stretched it across the table. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A bubble of air, trapped by monk’s robes, lifesaving, but disappearing fast. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Smaller and smaller the circle ungrew, with all the former life of a broad grassy plain trapped inside. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As one of her admirers observed, “She has plenty of nerve and is as sharp as a steel trap. She moved her base up north and continued speaking out in cities around the country. “ A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He found the fish traps hanging from the rope, but he couldn’t reach them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now pay close attention,” he said, “because this is the main part of the trap.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate to say this, but we need to check that out. I’ll go—you guys stay here and keep quiet. For all I know this is some kind of trap.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know who’d set the trap, but I knew it was there to catch things like coyotes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Annabeth and I were used to traps, and usually those traps looked good at first. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A woman tossed and turned in bed, her long hair trapping moonlight against the pillow. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No Unforgivable Curses from you, Potter!” he shouted over the rushing of the flames, Hagrid’s yells, and the wild yelping of the trapped Fang. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Lobster is stuck in there until you pull the trap. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Near them, half-moon lobster traps bleached under the heat of the sun, the salt dried to white streaks along their boards, their rope netting stiff and a bit ragged. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he had ever had a choice, or if he had ever felt trapped. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Daddy held the lid open so I wouldn’t get trapped. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine how Susie felt being trapped in one place, alone. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

With everyone at school trapped inside, there would be no one to rescue us, and we’d need to find our own way out. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The trap door creaked when he opened it. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama picked up the trap by its short chain. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“And the boys said there was a criminal who’d been trapped and captured because of some kidnapped kids!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, I felt trapped, sitting on that bench between the two of them. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But you never know—it could be a trap. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But how? I’m so confused. How did he get this photo? That’s kind of creepy. Am I being stalked? Lured into a trap?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Everybody else ducked down out of sight, but Mom was still trapped in her chair and couldn’t. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She hoped that he could cross the border fast as a fox- far away from the snares of those who would trap him. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The survivors around me—people and animals who had been trapped within its planks—cheered weakly as they clung to their own pieces of flotsam and kicked toward the shore. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The Specials sometimes tried to crash the party, setting traps for the New Smokies, but someone always gave a warning, and no hovercar could ever catch a board among winding streets and rubble. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Julia and I could look up at the canyon rims on either side of us and imagine the towering monolithic face of a one-hundred-fifty-foot-tall death trap that stretched across the sky from west to east. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, I’ll load on, fire up the outboard, go down creek to the harbor, fetch a bucket of bait from Dev Murphy, then off again to wherever I’m setting traps. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart beat madly inside her like a trapped bird, feathers flying, wings breaking against the bars, but inside the ring Archer was as still as he had ever been. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Seed Collector said, “He caught me in a trap and then held on to me as the sun was rising. He was going to let the morning rays strike me!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The crocodiles had been trapped and burned to death in an eruption of Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on my bed, trapping the bunnies next to the wall. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you somehow managed to survive all of the traps and find your way through the labyrinth, you would eventually reach the crypt of Acererak the Demi-Lich. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It makes no sense. Why set traps and then warn us about them?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They saw the blue light of tracer bullets as the German night fighter fired at the trapped plane—missed—and fired again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

How many people were trapped in this flood? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“My brother! An accident! He got his foot caught in a trap.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I trapped furs and Perry worked with the Alaska Road Commission the first winter then he got work on the railroad for a short while. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she could help me trap the woman in black. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Right,” Valerie agreed, and the minute Max had shut the trap door, she clambered silently up the ladder and pressed her ear to the ceiling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing, you just have that little old granny look about you, to lull people into your trap of playing good cards!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

From these twisted creatures, the Scholars learned to trap the jinn with salt and steel and summer rain still warm from the heavens. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The more difficult answer—the more courageous one—is to say yes, yes we should be concerned about the behavior of men trapped in ghettoized communities, but the deep failure of morality is our own. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They really hadn’t learned anything new in all the years I was trapped in Thurmond? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Their floors were always collaged with stray bits of paper, and trapped flies waved for help from the gummy killing fields of their tabletops. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was this one voice, though, loud and sure, that buzzed in my ears like a trapped fly, reminding me of once-upon-a-time phone calls and hotlines to God. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The Cree move into the camps for fall and winter to trap and the buyers fly from camp to camp on a regular route. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one so much as glanced at the house on the other side of the street, at the girl trapped like a mannequin behind the glass. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Rats, turtles, and snakes caught in our traps are not wasted as we cook and eat their brains, tails, hides, and blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr.Jones’s trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Or bait for a striper. No point in spending too long in a trap beforehand.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes are wary, and I know that he, too, suspects this might be a trap. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

"Billy, how do we know the prince ain't laid a trap for us in that message? He could have said one thing and wrote another. Where'll we find someone to read it off to us?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here I will find what I need, if I have the strength to take what is offered, and the wisdom to avoid the traps and snares. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He wept for Celia trapped in the stables and for Tam Lin, who was trapped in a different way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Jam was silent as she walked out, because the only thing in her chest was a low kind of bitterness, a sort of feeling trapped and not being heard. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Grace was locked in deep debate about whether a fly was trapped inside her Jell-O cup. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

No longer did they try to fit themselves, like paper-doll figures, behind trappings so foreign to their actual lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, so I had set this trap for myself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car drove off and I could see the white man looking about anxiously, fearing a trap; or so it seemed to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Celia trapped him into that marriage, telling him she was pregnant. I guess she was a compulsive liar even back then.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Uncle Louver was out setting his raccoon traps. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It had been such a rainy May, and the basement felt appropriately cryptlike: cobwebs around the doorframe ghosting our faces, that smell of dirt and rot and trapped air, and it was dark, totally dark. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe there is beauty, trapped somewhere deep beneath this black skin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He may find himself trapped in his own garden paths. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We young men had been trapped by the community, the tribe in which we lived and of which we were a part. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petey flipped the switch on his control panel, and there was a crackle of static electricity in the air as the trap powered down. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It might be possible, he thought, might just be possible to trap them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, supported by the inability to trap or record an actual bird and the negative DNA tests, all led to the conclusion that my town had been living a lie for nearly four months. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Once the animals were inside the trap, it was easy to drag the gate across the opening. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Manit always found him setting his traps in these stagnant back canals. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He did not bother to disguise the blind man’s trap, as it was hot and he was eager to get home to his new wife. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I mean lost. A mouse in a trap. He saw dead people passing through the walls. Terrible things in the corners of the streets. Now your great- uncle does not go outdoors.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We start stepping toward it slowly, but Manchee’s kept his trap shut for just about as long as he can bear and barks, “Todd?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was getting the skiff ready to pull lobster traps. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I have Weaves blaring from my headphones but I feel trapped, too big for this small green square. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Everything was like a picture show to her, and she was the one on the railroad track, or the one trapped in the sheik’s tent when it caught on fire. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miig leaned over the trap he was trying to show us how to reset and beckoned us in with a lowered voice. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He had dropped his veil, and he stood there trembling, like a trapped animal. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She deserves to be here, caged behind iron bars, trapped in her own jungle, left to stew in the memories. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, waves would seem to be appearing and disappearing regularly at exactly the same spots, so these trapped waves are called standing waves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Look: I realize now that I wasn’t only trapped inside my father’s book; my father also did not want to let go of me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Of trapped lightning, of fire, of powders that explode.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The drug causes sedation, not sleep, so I am trapped in fuzzy, dully aching misery for what seems like always. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of actors trapped in a recondite play with no hint of plot or narrative. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were trapped in a night without end. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then haul another six traps, inch by inch. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

All those nights Henry can’t sleep, just knocking around these endless, impersonal rooms, like a bird trapped in a museum. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I'm lying in a sand trap of my dad's golf course looking at the sky. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Feeling like a rat in a trap, Worsley looked for leads from the crow’s-nest and signaled the course to the man on the bridge. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The reconstructed language is full of words indicating a maritime economy, such as “outrigger canoe,” “sail,” “giant clam,” “octopus,” “fish trap,” and “sea turtle.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody saying that it was a booby trap. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want his feelings tampered with; he feared that he might walk into another trap. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sammy pulled his foot out, and I let go of the trap, which snapped shut. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Versions of me and my friends are trapped where I never want to go again. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I wake up several times during the night from a nightmare where I’m trapped in a glass room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Mary Rose still don’t have an engine, and my traps are still cut. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then the group moved as one machine, setting up the main camp, stringing the woods with traps and alarms. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

If there’s a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who’s trapped underground, I don’t know it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then he takes my hand again and wraps the trap around my wrist like a bracelet, the web of data glittering against my skin for a moment before turning invisible. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anger welled up in Ged’s heart, a hot rage of hate against all the cruel deathly things that tricked him, trapped him, hunted him down. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Anything that could close behind me, or trap me, I never liked. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been lured into the open, and trapped, twice trapped; trapped by being in jail for murder, and again trapped by being stripped of emotional resources to go to his death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure Prof. Ezeka will be able to explain it, some sort of migratory behavior. Don’t shut the window so you don’t trap them in.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The spring on the trap had caught the mouse at the neck and nearly pulled his head loose. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the 1915 occupation, the police in the city really knew how to hold human beings trapped in cages, even women like Manman who was accused of having wings of flame. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking back, I can see that we were all trapped in our own unhappy circumstances. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Prophecy of Gray’ trapped you, as it trapped us, long ago.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although few cartographic corporations acknowledge their existence, copyright traps remain a common feature even in contemporary maps. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It infiltrated Xerox machines and worked its way inside personal computers and inside the cushions of chairs and fingered down into the floor drains until it touched pools of lingering bleach in the water traps. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, if she stabbed through the braided silk, the trap might unravel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He must have known all along that the scientific life was not for me, that the jaws of the domestic trap were well and truly sprung. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Jezebel, what in blazes are you doing? That’s an animal trap!” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Esperanza was locked in the house, both Armijos were gone, and so the trapped dog wailed in pain all day, each of its woeful howls like an arrow piercing Herbie’s sensitive breast. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Normally these traps are made from woven bamboo, but spider silk is even better. It will hold you fast, and it’s much too strong to break—even for you.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This meant that Clinton believed that he, coming from the south, and Burgoyne, coming from the north, were about to trap an American Army led by General Horatio Gates at Saratoga, New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind man followed the other’s advice, and put his trap in a place where birds might come for water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The equerry galloped, there was a twinkle of armour among the leafy oaks, and Lot’s mind jumped to the trap. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what kind of trap could it possibly be? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I know — I just wanted to ask you something while we’re trapped here.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I would not trap the mice that danced so close or the owls that plunged just outside the fire. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he laid away the traps, and he took his fiddle out of its box and began to play. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see the barrier to this trap, because it had been carefully built around a curve in the bank where the animals could not see it until after they had gone through the opening. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The forest was seething with an army of wild animals, distracting the robot, luring the terrible thing deeper into their trap. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

That has always been frightening, for I have always felt that he would guess I might come, and wait there to trap me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They look nice, but they make my feet feel trapped, probably like Rani feels when she's stuck indoors. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Osh laughed a little as he hauled the trap up and into the boat. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He ran into the cornfield and saw the lizard trapped in the cage that Jet had set up. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I waited, heart pounding, trapped in the middle of the floor. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In fun I went on to trap Francis into believing that I did not think my X-ray picture was in fact very critical. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Wild things recognize stealth for what it is, a lie and a trap. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

What we decided to do was to set a trap, like Daniel in the temple. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the dress had somehow trapped both our legs inside it and all I was doing was gyrating uselessly on top of him. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As for Tyler, the lying weasel, he swore up and down he didn’t cut my traps, but his father didn’t believe him, so he lost the use of the Boston Whaler for a year. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then the following morning the body of his first wife being found, trapped in the cabin of her sailing boat, at the bottom of the bay. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie was sitting upstairs with Mo, watching him remove a book from its mildewed binding as carefully as if he were releasing an injured animal from a trap. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When a week had gone by and still no results from my traps, I gave up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled ahead of Anya, excited and gesticulating as he spoke, so he got caught in the trap first. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The stale air trapped there smelled like a mildewed lemon. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But just as she had done to him, he hooked the dull edge of his knife over her wrist, trapping her arm, and twisted. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You knew it was a trap,” I said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn Stark was trapped against the stone face of the mountain with three men around her, one still mounted and the other two on foot. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At dinner Minho had told him an old story—one of the bizarre and random things he remembered from before—about a woman trapped in a maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But later she told us perhaps this lapse was for the best: what if they were trying to trap him politically? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no gardens about so no one would think of setting a trap for him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trapped inside my church while people were shooting, breaking windows, and screaming for their lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wondered if he had been one of the culprits who had destroyed her traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reckon if we trap ’em in a net or something, Will can cut through and close up and that’s it, we’ll be free.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Most of those who had been on the first floor were trapped under debris. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Napoleon was seemingly in an impossible bind, but he found a way out of the sugar trap. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The descent into the underground lair took longer than I thought it would, partly because the curving staircase was covered in invisible booby traps. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As she walked the length of Cook’s trap line she saw an occasional gunning skiff, heard the wild free crying of the water birds, watched them fly up, wings spread wide. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered what he said about not leaving the lobsters in their traps longer than we had to. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She does not know how long she has been trapped in the attic or even if it is day or night. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Booby traps and land mines and gangrene and shock and polio from a VC virus. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could be trying to trap me here, hoping I’ll stay a Mask long enough to decide that a soldier’s life is better than an exile’s. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sand traps of the golf course were newly raked. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now Violet was as trapped as her sister. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Martin skipped his midnight rounds in the attic, scared that they were in the teeth of an elaborate trap. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe—just maybe—he was trapped in this hell, scared and confused, just like Tad, and wasn’t telling the truth because Tad had never given him a reason to trust him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then I grab the next buoy, pull on the line until I feel the trap lift off the bottom. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not nonsense, Lancelot. They hate you. They won’t try a combat this time, not after Meliagrance. They are too cunning. They will do something to trap you. They will go behind your back.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t know what it’s like to be trapped.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was not even sure if Cluny was shamming, pretending that his injuries were severe merely as some kind of test or trap that he had set for his captains. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” said LaPautre, “I was about to close my fingers on the trap when I heard a voice.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Now the smoky air was alive with subtler sounds: water gushing from broken mains, the whine of a trapped dog, hoarse voices moaning for help. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Grandma,” I said, “is trapping fish legal in this state?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt trapped, and thought he could solve his problems by simply running away. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It looks like a fallen star trapped inside my pocket. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Behind, the trapped Men in the lane, still about four score, tried to climb the barrier and the banks, and the hobbits were obliged to shoot many of them or hew them with axes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

If this explanation is correct, then Pollard was trapped. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there you will remain, trapped in the maw of madness for all eternity. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And then came the sound of a distant roar, like a lion just sprung from a trap. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was furious that she was twisting my story to save her skin, but now she had caught me in her trap. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I knew this strategy, the sneaky way to get someone to pounce back in anger and fall into a trap. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He offered a hand to Nick, who ignored it and got unsteadily to his feet, rubbing his windpipe and glaring at us like some trapped and wounded beast. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and Adah and I stood there with our traps hanging open. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because once we get the other horses loaded you’ll be trapped back here.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

My only hope was if he got his leg caught in a rusty badger trap. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He must not fall into the messenger boy trap. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The first spy to be trapped in the Cold War's net maintained his innocence until his death. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s move out. Your mission is to locate and recover the bullion. Watch for booby traps. I didn’t trust Fowl when he was alive, and I definitely don’t trust him now that he’s dead.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The virus may have entered the cotton factory by some unknown route—perhaps in insects trapped in the cotton fibers, for example, or in rats that lived in the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s definitely not Aurora trapped in the middle of Route 3. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

"I felt his return to Germany had been something of a boyish lark and he had ended up trapped...still there was something serious about him." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And then I draw a shriveled girl trapped within her shadow. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I was a fool. I thought I could go anywhere in the Underworld, but I walked right into Gaea’s trap. I might as well have tried running from a black hole.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

From this height they looked like insects, eagerly massed at the entrance of a bug trap. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cries trapped in the thickness of my pillow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Not an indignant, violence-seeking monster, but a human being, honest and raw—trapped in this house with us, and scared to the bone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Them critters love that cheese,” she said fondly as the trap sank from view. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d gotten trapped because of me, and now he—and the others—were suffering. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I think he sensed it was a trap. I don’t know. He just knew something was off.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Chris smiled, thankfully with his trap closed, all the food stuffed in his cheeks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I felt the bubble start to form — I’d trapped the air! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

He wore white breeches and boots and a white shirt with white lace at the throat, and the fabric of his clothes gleamed as if there were light trapped within its threads. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw spears, javelins, and banners—the trappings of an army. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“June 20 “I decided today to dig a pit to trap a deer, so I am whittling a shovel out of a board I found in the stream this morning. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Complete silence fell in the clearing, and all seemed peaceful and quiet in contrast to the wildly beating heart of the desperate, trapped cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swung the little crate door shut and trapped her inside. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He removed a whole arsenal of tools that none of them had ever seen before and proceeded to trap an ant and carefully observe it with his microscope. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I’m leaving Murphy’s, loaded up with bait and a couple of traps that need new heads. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d steal the bait from the traps, spring the triggers, and sometimes even turn them over. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, ever so casually, she added, “I also found another trap.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The thorns had captured Father’s gleaming new rickshaw, bushes closing around it like a trap. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was trapped in the corner of the bedroom like a dog. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Sneaky's snoring is like thunder trapped in a blender. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Still, she regularly caught francolins and doves, and she was able to snare smaller birds in the lime traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If only I had my armour,” he said with irritation, “it seems ridiculous to be caught like a rat in a trap.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Proteins also form the structural components of the cell: filaments of hair, nails, cartilage, or the matrices that trap and tether cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It's the police officer who trapped my mom in the car. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On the way to my third trap I had to walk through a thick stand of wild cane. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Eril-Fane was trapped in his own shock and grief, and kept his great arms to himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I am sure it is a trap. I am sure the King has gone away for the night on purpose that you should go to her, and then Agravaine will be there to catch you.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was she trapped in the wrong terminal, worried that her new husband had abandoned her? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Their sticky sap could be used to trap birds. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The peril of being trapped within the city, without hope of change until some calamity, weighed heavily upon me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

One night, the old guard in the museum forgot that Hugo’s father was up in the attic, and he locked the door, trapping him inside. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

We trapped mice to feed it, but sometimes it didn’t eat them, and we couldn’t clear away the carcasses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But then, intelligence tests hadn’t trapped an andy in years, not since the primordial, crude varieties of the 1970s. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Papa asked if I wanted him to help make my traps. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to stay, but I’m also starting to feel trapped. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The forest was full of deer, and I already had drawn plans on a piece of birch bark for deadfalls, pit traps, and snares. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peer through the bushes, afraid the Careers have returned, trapping me here for an indefinite time. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

What if he was trapped in the rafters? Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Kate had trapped him like a rat—caught him with his pants down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait...these giants trapped my dad in a bronze jar?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once when he was young, Mutt got caught in a coyote trap, and always after that he limped, even when he was scolded. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was back before they dropped fish traps all over the reefs. Back before certain creeps started dumping their crapola in the sea.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The blind man thought that he had disguised his trap, but he did not see that he had failed to do so and any bird could tell that there was a trap there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Zoey traps the ball with her heel, flips it up, and starts juggling again. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Frost painted the ground the color of a gravestone, ashes trapped in ice. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled woodsmoke and passed a stack of old lobster traps, blown over and the staves broken in, then a heap of firewood guarded pitifully by some old barrels, also broken. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He swept the boards clean and knelt and hooked his fingers in the ring and lifted the trap door and swung it open. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Taking the fundamental ideas behind Gale’s traps and adapting them into weapons against humans. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“What about that ghost lady? The one who escaped while the fairies were trapping Bahumat?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And the way he looked at them said it all—he thought for sure it was some kind of trap. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you know anything about elf trapping, Strange?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw struggled to get down, and for a moment, caught the leather satchel against the gear handle of the tractor and was trapped. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe that in this wide beauty there roamed three souls trapped to do evil. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there’s no helping other people’s souls. We can only try to help the people trapped inside the rubble.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was in a trap there. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She gripped the cover tightly, as if trying to keep her apology trapped there, afraid it might leap out and throw itself into Mr. Larson’s hands. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

This is him as a boy, waiting every day for his brother to come back, falling asleep every night to the same nightmare, trapped forever wondering if he had only done one thing, anything, differently. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly African Americans were trapped in jobless ghettos, desperate for work. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I could have kicked myself for being trapped with mean, murdering Okonkwo when The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou and The Outsiders rattled around unread in the underbelly of our Greyhound. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

This time it shifts a little, but then the rope slips through my hands and the trap clunks back on the bottom. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She could not find a way out of the trap she had set for herself, and she was closer to despair than she had been since her mother died. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wet board folded up easily enough, but it felt too heavy when she was done, as if the water was still trapped between the layers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Once the teeth were out, it drew its leg out of the trap altogether. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Byron was trapped in the doorway, with his right foot in and his left foot out. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tens of thousands of people scrambled for their lives, became trapped and confused; most figured out how to escape, but scores of people perished in dead-end streets. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even with her broken ankle, she could manage to avoid a giant silk finger trap. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It took them more than four hours to free the four men who had been trapped in debris, including John Barry, who had come close to dying of suffocation before the rescuers arrived. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I must have pushed the two boles apart as I stepped up into the place where they joined, and then when I stupidly let go again they closed on my foot like a trap. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then of course the black phone rang, and Dad heard there was a fall, men were hurt, maybe trapped, methane was surely seeping in. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was a boy trapped with girls, and they might have been like sisters, but they weren't sisters, and they were...well, they were pretty. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It's like a train wreck, and I'm pinned down, trapped. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s trapped by the same memory of love, of better times, that his mother is, and it isn’t enough. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was thinking furiously, trying to see if there was a trap in this, or danger. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad lingered on for a few more days, ice fishing, setting my traps and snares, and husking walnuts. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still humming softly, I placed the tines of the pitchfork into the narrow opening between the jaws of the animal trap. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Beowulf fell into them, as into a seaweed trap. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briefly there came back to her, as she stood behind him and politely cleared her throat, a memory of old Hardman and his trap. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some people, like Ora Lee Hurley, find themselves trapped by fees and fines in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But there is no open here, only razor wire and electric fences, where all our truths are trapped. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Everything has this kind of energy trapped within it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Hey, I remember when Big Skiff built that! Lovely lines. You think you can haul up a trap all by yourself?” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a trap. You go in there saying you want to straighten out your papers, they’ll deport you.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And sometimes insects get caught in it, and over millions of years the amber turns into a gemstone, but it traps the insect inside.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Get the next trap up to the side, grab the end, haul it over the side. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bus exhaust freezes, trapping all the noise in a gritty cloud. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Boy, they all shut their traps after that. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Of course bonobos didn’t have language, couldn’t trap thoughts and keep them to use on others. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

To confirm I got electrocuted by the fence or trapped in the woods so they could take my family in for questioning. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

June was trapped between the two of them, her eyes fixed on the TV screen. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He held the flat of his hand over her papers, trapping them there, trapping her there. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was like she had been trapped into something. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This is the second lesson of Blink: understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

One fishes in the river or cuts grass with a machete, like a fieldworker, and whisdes to the others to set a trap. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

While I abhorred the notion of British imperialism, I never rejected the trappings of British style and manners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm trapped by her words, each one a pin tacking me in place, until a pack of black gossip post-balloons swarms me like a kettle of vultures. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Some had nets, and others pretended to dig traps, which were really the trapdoors that opened from below. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hazel herself trapped in a glowing maze of light, unable to help. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The preserved heads apparently were “spirit traps” designed to keep the spirit in its original dwelling place. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw how to open it: by pushing down the tabs on the sides of the trap. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A strange gray dust was trapped in his salt-and-pepper beard, and a thin white film had crawled over his open brown eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He ran, slinging his head and flopping his long tongue around, bawling like he’d stuck it into a bear trap. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was leaping around Basta faster and faster, ducking, retreating, advancing, but suddenly he found that his fearless dance had trapped him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He surveyed the area and decided to set the trap up not far from where he saw the swallow the first time. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But despite his Nazi trappings, he rarely talked about his political beliefs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The hunt was resumed, various traps were set, but to no avail. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

There are flame-throwing booby traps, a net of pillboxes with periscopic sights; they have stockpiled enough ordnance to spray shells into the sea all day, every day, for a year. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I crack the window open to let out the heat trapped in my room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The distressed cries of those trapped beneath the cart reached his ears. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I often felt like a very old person trapped in a young person’s body; Matlock was my people. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But that don’t matter because there’s stuff in the trap. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Jay were really lucky we didn’t get caught in that trap. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just the herring for the traps or the catch itself. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

While he had successfully trapped the prairie dog, the rest of his invention wasn’t quite the success Chase imagined. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

On screen, the cherry trees froze, blossoms trapped in midair. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I feel heat rising in my cheeks as I imagine Gram trapped in Morning Glory Cottage, forced to live behind her curtains. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

One morning, late in November, two PTs came in escorting a landing craft that had just rescued some Marines who had been trapped on a riverbank. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because she's two years older than me, she falls into that trap of thinking all little kids want to stare at something like fat ducks. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I woke up with a scream trapped in my throat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of Grandpa Portman’s photo of the girl “trapped” in a bottle, only whatever darkroom technique had been used wasn’t nearly as fake-looking. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I feel trapped beneath all the things that make me think less of myself. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some hit the traps the Hephaestus cabin, had laid. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Louis hoped the leopard would follow the trail, enter the trap, and thus be captured. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bag stank, like he had kept old cabbages in it, and the loamy scent of the leaves trapped inside did nothing to improve the smell. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was like I was a bug trapped inside a Macy’s bag. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She thought, How close this peaceful wall is every day while we are trapped inside. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A new caretaker has come. The last one set traps, remember?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He directed a truck to bring a big, live trap to within about three hundred feet of the dead hound, which was then dragged across the ground and put into the trap. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I learned about the middle game and why tactics between two adversaries are like clashing ideas; the one who plays better has the clearest plans for both attacking and getting out of traps. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The energy of the band and the crowd made me feel like there were hyper butterflies trapped inside me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon she packed the fish traps with dried meat and suspended them from the overhanging branch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t hard to find places for my traps. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a troop of Peacekeepers were to come through that door, we’d be trapped like rats. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Some days I feel like I’m halfway to the moon, trapped between the Earth and it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

For those few seconds I was not a prisoner in a Nazi ghetto, trapped behind high walls, but a twelve-year-old boy like any other, relishing the mix of danger and excitement. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

All of these feelings, all of this want, was strange, like a thousand hummingbirds trapped between his ribs, but he liked it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I get a good haul from the traps—eight rabbits, two squirrels, and a beaver that swam into a wire contraption Gale designed himself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It can’t be much of a life trapped up there. But now that we know about you, we can get you out.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He tore a flap from the opened cardboard box and chased out the smoke with it and then he climbed up and lowered the trap door and turned and looked at the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ll show you how to use the security system, and make sure you know where all the booby traps are. The whole place will be yours for the duration,” he says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The first story was flooded, so he assumed the dogs—two of them, he guessed—were trapped on the second. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s just it. I don’t want to have any thoughts, because then I’ll have to think about how I’m trapped down here with no way out.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy trapped Harry and Miss Goodacre in a corner and gave them a detailed explanation of the difference between the male and female Deinacrida, or giant locust. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I said, “Not even Grandma,” and his hands started shaking, like birds trapped under a tablecloth. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was alone, it was getting cold at night, and no matter how fast she flew, Tally was trapped, and she knew it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“There was a friend I was supposed to meet today. And I’m not sure if he’s still trapped in here.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

That may seem like plenty of room, but try being trapped in a van for eight days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Must have snuck out here and emptied out my traps, letting me know he’s better than me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You think this is a trap, then?” the Count asked. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The chugging motion of the train, however, was still trapped in my body. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I know everyone is suffering. It’s just I feel so trapped. Sunday is the only day I’m outside. I guess God could tell my motives were impure. I’ll pray for His forgiveness.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He put one end of it on the top of my hand, and pressed his finger down to hold the end in place until he wrapped the gauze around enough times to trap it down. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes their tops get covered by snow, like the mountain’s laid a trap. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“There was a crack, and I heard Ray’s cry. I could hear him, but I couldn’t see him. I think he’s trapped.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But instead an image of Tariq’s parents presented itself: Tariq’s mother trapped in the lorry, upside down, screaming for Tariq through the smoke, her arms and chest on fire, the wig melting into her scalp . A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

You got to put your trap where the lobster lives. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If it weren’t for the little fact they were torn apart from friends and families and trapped in a Maze with a bunch of monsters, it could be paradise. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing alive...at least not for several hundred feet. The tunnel slants down, then levels out and goes south, more or less. I don’t sense any traps...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

All have been accused of crimes they speak of only with reticence, anxious about what traps might lurk within any question he puts to them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He examined the room he was trapped in. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She was a weaver, and the wife of a man named James Cook, a man who hunted and trapped for a living. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian screamed with a trapped feeling of terror and began to shiver, feeling very cold suddenly and very weak. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The opulent fur-trimmed silk and gold ornaments told of the woman’s wealth and nobility, but those were mere faded trappings compared with her loveliness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Frypan’s task was to take all the nonperishable food out of the kitchen and store it in the Homestead, in case they got trapped there—Thomas could only imagine how horrible that’d be. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I think that such a net as this would be best used to trap fish,” said Kvasir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“How do we know it’s not a trap?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next couple of weeks I work on finding my lost traps. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There, the local ground crew discovered Zhenya’s body trapped in her Yak. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“One thing. The giants are expecting us to do this, right? So we’re walking into a trap?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sure, they were trapped in the void’s gravitational pull too. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I like planning what I will do to trap his pieces. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I know you must be in there, Doc. You shoulda just stepped in that trap—then I wouldn’t be out here now.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I know that mice get hunted and they sometimes get poisoned or caught in traps. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When a baited and set question was offered to him, he walked happily into the trap and was glad when the constable looked happy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or was it just the two of us in all the world, trapped in our own separate boxes? The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Is the reason that I can’t let go of this trapped inside my head? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “I must have water, Timothy. I’m very hot” Without answering, he opened the trap in the raft and secured the keg again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Check to make sure Rose ain’t leaking—nope, dry as a bone—and then drag traps out to the end of the dock and lower ’em into my skiff. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was bait for a trap set without my knowledge. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He showed me each item, handling the strange machines as if he had tamed whatever demons were trapped inside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Driving, I have created turtle traps in my mind, have written long, detailed letters never to be put to paper, much less sent. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt trapped between the dark of Mom’s room and the fake light of Dad’s office, and without thinking, I went to my bedroom, grabbed Mom’s book, and walked right outside, into Mom’s greenhouse. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit may have been trapped in the barn, but his idleness didn’t hurt his celebrity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was a trap he had laid for me on purpose. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I was trapped, sir, and she set me free. She saved me from the cat.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was the cry of a wild animal trying to pry its mangled leg free from the bear trap. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I bet kids in Arizona enjoy playing hooky more than kids trapped in Central New York. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They have the power to trap, transport, and even transform you if you are lucky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon Beetle left the village for the woods, where she gathered honey, trapped birds, and collected herbs, leeches, and spiders’ webs. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were trapped between a monster and a fully armed helicopter. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, she cut down spotted aloe plants to make new traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What usually results is a poisoned environment, a lethal trap in which not only the resident populations succumb but those who come in as migrants as well. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I quickly trapped the hand on my chest with my forearm, grabbing on to the fingers. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Merry was trapped: another crack had closed about his waist; his legs lay outside, but the rest of him was inside a dark opening, the edges of which gripped like a pair of pincers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My vision tightens around the roof edge, trapping it in the center of a pinhole. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She feels the entirety of the circus radiating around her, as though a net has been thrown over it, trapping everything within the iron fence, fluttering like a butterfly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was running my team up a small frozen creek when I came around a corner and saw a raven caught in a number-four steel trap. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But instead, I knelt down to remove the trap. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Cobb was doubtful and feared they were being drawn into a trap. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If it is some trap, better that I die than let them hurt me more, she told herself. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I were trapped inside that house, as if I couldn’t escape the broiling walls—as if my life and the life of that house were burning down together. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Something to do with the microwaves trapped in the watery fruit and getting really hot. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And the idea of those walls closing and trapping him inside this place they called the Glade was downright terrifying. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

That trapped and cornered feeling slipped into my skin, and I quickly looped her arm. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“If the Bureau can get to the Key Holder first, then maybe we can spring a trap for Moreau’s apprentice. This could be how we get Quinton and Maria back.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He is trapped in a sea of foamy white packing peanuts. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Named after a woman who promoted the education of prisoners and championed humane conditions of confinement, Tutwiler has become an overcrowded, dangerous nightmare for the women trapped there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z