| 单词 | trapped |
| 例句 | This disturbing phenomenon of people cycling in and out of prison, trapped by their second-class status, has been described by Loïc Wacquant as a “closed circuit of perpetual marginality.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She thought, How close this peaceful wall is every day while we are trapped inside. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 In another life, she could have been him—a ghost trapped in a terrible place. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z 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 “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 I felt confused and trapped by his tricky words. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Because the land was mined and booby- trapped, it was SOP for each man to carry a steel-centered, nylon-covered flak jacket, which weighed 6.7 pounds, but which on hot days seemed much heavier. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 You die of cold or hunger or suffocation, trapped in a dark coffin made of ice. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The chugging motion of the train, however, was still trapped in my body. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I already feel trapped by my own disappointment. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z 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 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 returning to his ship, he was trapped in an ambush. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Time freeze-framing as the guy behind the wheel locked eyes with the hitchhiker—trapped in the headlights and unable to dodge the thousand pounds of steel sliding straight at him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She's got us trapped, too, because no one wants to chase her down, not while their own pack sits so vulnerable on the table. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Zlata was trapped in her basement while she heard bombs going off and people screaming. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 Whenever he feels trapped and panic sets in, he loses control and dirties himself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 That was where the Communists trapped him, in the tree. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They did not appear often, and when they did, they went about their own business, trapped in a cycle of behavior only they understood. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It had been across the parking lot from a Subway, and ever since, I couldn’t smell baking Subway bread without feeling trapped and claustrophobic from the porcupine costume I was forced to wear. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Magdalys exhaled, realizing just how trapped and exposed they had been. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z 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 For we shall always be human, and always vicious; suspended motionless, yet never at rest; trapped, yet without any solid thing to grasp. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The mountains trapped the bone-scorching heat, stifled the city like smoke. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 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 The boy gritted his teeth, but he was trapped among the hurdles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 How many people were trapped in this flood? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 “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 How is it possible to have no visible cage around you, but to be so trapped? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z 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 It's like a train wreck, and I'm pinned down, trapped. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 It was like she had been trapped into something. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z 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 Fear coming back to me—I knew he’d made a mistake in bringing us ashore—I said, “Then no ships will pass even close to us. Not even schooners! Were trapped here!” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hope Your Grace will pardon me. Your king is trapped. Death in four.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z 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 had an air hostess’s heart trapped in a bear’s body. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like my octopus body has gotten trapped in a net. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I don’t like being trapped by the puffy blue wall like this though. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “The underground river...there’s a boy trapped in there.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z 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 “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 "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 Plus, the lobby seemed a spiderweb of trapped psychotic poets and artists. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z 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 My voice caught in my throat like a trapped animal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you’re trapped?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “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 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 I want to stay, but I’m also starting to feel trapped. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z 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 I am trapped on this island, where I killed those poor, poor dogs. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “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 She had a vision of herself trapped forever in the dusty brown parlor reading the Bible to Trotter and Mr. Randolph. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z 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 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 There are layers to fear, and complexities, and being trapped here brings that to light. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I found myself singing aloud this song that filled my head like the buzz of a trapped fly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z 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 I’d rather be outside with the people attacking the ship than trapped like this. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m at the fence before the hum makes me remember how very trapped I am. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z What if he’s stuck or trapped somewhere, and faints under the mighty sun? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z 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 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 Soon after the battle began, the warriors became trapped on a ledge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 We all trapped in this game of hurt. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z 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 “You’ll never be trapped like that poor amateur. You can see behind you like a bat. Hold the peasants back with one hand and kill the warrior with the other.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 A starling trapped in the house flew up the stairs to the second floor. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 crying, frustrated, angry because I let us get trapped. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 Washington’s presidency had become trapped within that contradiction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z After my first few days the food service worker who had been delivering the special hospital meals took pity on me bouncing off my yellow walls like a cricket trapped in a box. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 He might still be trapped in the pit, but he was alive. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Feeling trapped indoors, I prowled from room to room. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The foil, similar to that used by NASA, trapped the heat inside the structure while preventing the camouflaged outside surface from overheating. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z 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 Eating alone had reminded her of the days after her birthday, trapped as an ugly when everyone knew she should be pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I am trapped in a conspiracy of conspiracies. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “We were in bad shape, struggling to get across.the country to find that stupid lightning bolt, trapped in a truck with a bunch of mistreated animals. How can you be nostalgic for that?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Tiny bubbles were trapped in the ice like in Fox’s Glacier Mints. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Now Violet was as trapped as her sister. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 “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 Sometimes it can make you look like an elegant princess trapped in time. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z But there is no open here, only razor wire and electric fences, where all our truths are trapped. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z 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 His ugly face jeered as he saw that Ku-Ang was trapped. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z His body is his escape from the world, whereas I’m trapped in mine. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was fanning themselves and wiping sweat, frustrated, trapped on the bus from hell. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z It got trapped in a burning city and escaped, speaking bad French. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For billions of years they would have heard only weak and intermittent radio static caused by lightning and the trapped electrons and protons whistling within the Earth’s magnetic field. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “Well, first we gotta show you what it feels like to be trapped in a blizzard. You ready?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 She was still trapped, but now maybe there was some wiggle room. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z 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 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 I couldn’t imagine how Susie felt being trapped in one place, alone. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They might find themselves trapped in this village forever. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 If I were, I probably wouldn't be trapped in this hospital. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z 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 Kaz was dizzy, and his limbs felt creaky from being trapped in the chair, but everything seemed sunnier with a weapon in his hand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Being trapped in here with everyone hoping they didn’t die. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “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 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 Sure, they were trapped in the void’s gravitational pull too. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Another man was fallen, trapped beneath his injured horse, both of them screaming in pain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “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 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 It wasn’t right for them to be trapped like this. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z 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 I’m trying to unbutton his shirt because I want it off, but the bottom half is trapped beneath my thighs, so we pull apart and he puts me down so I can finish. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 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 The stale air trapped there smelled like a mildewed lemon. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I felt like I was trapped in quicksand; would he ever get anything right? Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 But it turned out the sci-fi Hela was inspired by the ancient Norse goddess of death, who lives trapped in a land between hell and the living. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Being loyal to the one who owned me gave me prickly thoughts, like burrs trapped in my shift, pressing into my skin with every step. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 So might a trapped fox feel anger at the paw which held him to the trap. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 The yelling, the nastiness, the echoes trapped in the walls. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The Kenyan naturalists trapped and netted hundreds of birds, rodents, hyraxes, and bats. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Joey shouted back over the din, “They must all be trapped in there!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “They didn’t deserve to be trapped there anymore.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I was trapped in a black hole, stuck in a soundproof bubble sealed away from the rest of the universe. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z 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 And then the glass box with the woman trapped inside slowly fills with white smoke. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 The sound seemed to be trapped for an instant in the thick timber. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “Maybe time is like that insect,” Blink said, “trapped beneath the crystal of your watch.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 He looked around miserably, like a trapped animal searching for a way to escape. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 He was seventy-nine and trapped inside a decaying body. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z If she isn’t now trapped in a graveyard. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Dad pushes a checker close to mine, and I’m trapped. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z 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 Golden walls hug around us like we're trapped inside the sun. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z 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 ‘What was the worst thing about being trapped in that block, Salim?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 A quick survey of the rest of the arena shows that most of the tributes are still trapped on their plates. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 To be so huge and trapped by such tiny, useless creatures. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Worst of all was the terrible energy that rolled through the trapped body. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They also stood on heated bricks and trapped the warmth under their skirts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Henry felt as if he were trapped under the weight of it all. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 They knew they’d be trapped by the gas and smoke if they stayed in Manhattan. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “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 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 Tess lifted the box completely and there Genie was, swallow trapped between his palms. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I woke up with a scream trapped in my throat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 How long was she going to be trapped? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As a result of the Armstrong decision, defendants who suspect racial bias on the part of prosecutors are trapped in a classic catch-22. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What if he was trapped in the rafters? Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 The man screamed and banged on the glass, jumping up and down like a fat fly trapped in a bottle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I wanted to get up, but I was trapped. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z 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 She didn’t admit to Tony what she’d really thought when she heard those noises: that a person was trapped inside. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z I feel trapped beneath all the things that make me think less of myself. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A liquid Gold light flowed, trapped beneath Pong's skin. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I know he hates feeling trapped inside, but did he forget that we almost died out there? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z 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 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 “Oh, I know — I just wanted to ask you something while we’re trapped here.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z To be trapped in a hotel room with him would be a kind of heaven. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 I feel like I’m wrapped and trapped in plastic. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Some days felt like we were trapped in a nightmare,” he said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His legs felt trapped, but people kept pushing. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 On the television, a black horse helps free a man trapped beneath a fallen tree. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Supposing the weight collapsed the earth, caved in the storage room and trapped them? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A payment for every screecher from that area, safely trapped and brought to Perchance, alive and well. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z 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 “Your mother is trying to do her best for her children. She is just trapped by the rules we live by. We all are.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Suddenly African Americans were trapped in jobless ghettos, desperate for work. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z 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 There were believed to be hundreds or possibly even thousands of workers and an unknown number of fire, police, and rescue personnel still trapped in the two buildings when they went down. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z After the wonder and ease of flying in so real-seeming a dream, he felt heavy and trudging and trapped down here on the surface of the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “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 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 I’d never felt so powerless in all my life, not even when we were trapped in that animal cage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z 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 I swung the little crate door shut and trapped her inside. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 I didn’t want to be trapped in the void. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I thought for a moment we were trapped; the thick haze tricked my mind and I knew not if we should proceed down or up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He may find himself trapped in his own garden paths. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Despite everything, he felt a shiver of excitement; he was sure they could avoid getting trapped out there at night again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I race through the hospital like a trapped wild animal. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Hazleton began buying more monkeys from the Philippines, from the same monkey house near Manila, and restocked the building with crab-eating monkeys that had been trapped in the rain forests of Mindanao. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Hazel herself trapped in a glowing maze of light, unable to help. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 Mary Miller had said something about me being adopted, yet adoption had trapped Mandy in the Moss family, where she could be punished as much as they wanted without anyone checking. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 The distressed cries of those trapped beneath the cart reached his ears. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z 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 When his front paws were unstuck, the strange sticky tape trapped his back paws and tail. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “Does that mean we’re trapped here? Surrounded by fire and those bone ships?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “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 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 My loneliness feels like a dark cloud that could be trapped and put in a jar. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 David Oddsson believed that Fischer felt “trapped” in Iceland in general, and Reykjavik in particular. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Mother and I looked at each other, suddenly conscious that we, too, were trapped by a violent mob. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Many lay trapped beneath the heavy ladders that had fallen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “We’re going to be trapped. Embers behind and ahead are burning up the trail.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z For working people like C.P., trapped in East Durham, that wasn’t an option. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z "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 Now he's trapped here, with no way to help Eden. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z 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 As they melt, the bergs also release atmospheric nutrients that have been trapped in the ice for centuries. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z My thoughts have trapped me and made me flee from You! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Whatever the case, they found themselves trapped in fresh water and died. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Terror seized me so strongly that I was literally trapped by it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 There was a lot of gold in Battle Mountain, but it was trapped in the ore. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Although Conrad was young enough to have his self-esteem and hope, I was already sad about being trapped in oppression. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 It declares that we are trapped in a world not of our making, while insisting that the obstacles to our remaking the world are indeed all of our own making. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z 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 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 On the inside, because the light is trapped down there, things may be attractively well- lit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My body and voice shook as if trapped in one of Ruth’s fits. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 Tad got to be whatever the hell he wanted, and still Tad thought he was trapped. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A body of ashes trapped in a vase forever. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Some, he heard, were trapped in the railroad yards of the great city a hundred miles to the east. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 Overhead, the emergency lights flickered on and off, buzzing like boxes of trapped flies. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The first dead man is on the floor with an arm trapped beneath him and a crimson mess where his head should be. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 "Help!" peeps the puppy trapped in the helicopter. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A bubble of air, trapped by monk’s robes, lifesaving, but disappearing fast. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Another creature trapped in a situation she didn’t want to be in. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Now his consciousness was trapped inside a charred crispy husk of demigod roadkill. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Your prey should never know you are coming for it, or only when it is trapped and cannot flee and you see it clear and you have it held. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I screamed at him, and he realized he was trapped. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z 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 Clusters of tracker jacker nests in the vicinity of the tree I was trapped in. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z 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 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 But Burr’s entire life had been a sermon on the capacity of the sagacious spider to lift himself out of hellish difficulties and spin webs that trapped others. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z 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 She didn’t admit how shaken she still was by the thought of Finn and Natalie being trapped in the secret room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 The news that a second child was on the way made him feel trapped. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 is trapped in a sea of foamy white packing peanuts. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z His grandmother might be alone inside the house, trapped. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Though her wrists were cinched with twine, she cupped her hands together; they bulged and pulsed, as if she had a fidgety mouse trapped between her palms, and white light leaked between her fingers. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “It will end the game even if I am trapped in the fire and not dead.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z 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 The last time he had listened like that, a blizzard hit that trapped them inside for close to a week. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 As I start to move, it feels like I am trapped twenty miles underwater. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Three years later, it had followed us onto the water, and now we were trapped with it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I was trapped up on the roof, so I grabbed a bungee jacket and jumped off. I hover-bounced halfway here.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Some are purchased from local breeders, while others are trapped in big-city railroad yards. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He felt trapped, and thought he could solve his problems by simply running away. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z 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 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 But though I laughed, I felt trapped, as hollow as a rotten tree. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 Regardless, the reality for poor blacks trapped in ghettos remains the same: they must live in a state of perpetual insecurity and fear. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z 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 He trapped fireflies in matchboxes so he would not inhale them in his sleep. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 The worst part of the Pathfinder trip was being trapped in the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 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 Only now that I was trapped did I understand the heaviness of forever. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z 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 “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 “And part of the caves go out to the river. There are whole sections that are underwater. You could get trapped and drown.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 His eyes darted around the cavernous room as if he was starting to feel trapped. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 “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 “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 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 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 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 There are little pockets inside the mound where the people are trapped. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 He had dropped his veil, and he stood there trembling, like a trapped animal. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Now you are trapped here, helpless, while the mortal world dies. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We were trapped in a night without end. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was being trapped into going farther than he had ever intended to go. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 Kate had trapped him like a rat—caught him with his pants down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That winter I trapped harder than ever with the three little traps I owned. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if he had ever had a choice, or if he had ever felt trapped. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I felt trapped, bound tight by his familiar glances. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He saw he was trapped in deep icy mud. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z 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 Wind slammed into him from all directions, keeping him trapped in place. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z 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 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 But Carol had been trapped inside the car. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I didn’t mean by me. You mustn't be stupid. I meant trapped at all.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z 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 I have Weaves blaring from my headphones but I feel trapped, too big for this small green square. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “My friend is on the roof. He’s trapped!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 They were trapped in the citadel to scrape up a life for themselves however they could and for as long as they could, and there were gifts that might make that easier. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z 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 He was trapped now, tricked into trying something that could never work. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 It wasn’t that the dress was ugly—in fact, the beautiful wax-print pattern was easily the nicest thing she’d ever worn—but her legs felt trapped beneath the rippling fabric. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z 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 The wind was howling, and he and the girl were trapped. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I waited, heart pounding, trapped in the middle of the floor. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “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 Can you be trapped and safe at the same time? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z 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 It’s easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 Dad had built a maze on Buck’s Peak and trapped me inside it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z 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 I was trapped in the moment that I lost my dog forever. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “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 As if something trapped inside has managed to escape. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “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 We would all be trapped as surely as coneys in a snare. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Kyle’s other brother, Curtis, who was fifteen, was still trapped over in the neighbor’s yard, dealing with their dog. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “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 I fall deep inside me and feel trapped. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 The Fairy Queen had asked for their decision by end of the day, and Con felt trapped. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Someone dead whose spirit was trapped and couldn’t get away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 During dinner, I heard cries as if there were a cat trapped above our heads. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 A green and gold maple leaf was trapped under the windshield wiper. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was trapped in a cycle of acting out and punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z And there you will remain, trapped in the maw of madness for all eternity. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z If this explanation is correct, then Pollard was trapped. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I cannot show you a tesseract, because we are trapped in three dimensions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 This meant that passengers and crew were trapped on board with successive generations of diseased insects. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z 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 He shot nervous glances from side to side like a trapped animal. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Her voice trails off, but now I see how she was trapped. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 I had enough sense at that point to break away toward the waterline, but I was trapped there, forced to watch it all play out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She felt as if she were trapped in a funnel cloud of plants. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z 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 They really hadn’t learned anything new in all the years I was trapped in Thurmond? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z 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 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 “I was trapped in the crowd,” I said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 She flew away from the dead-end corridor where her life had trapped and taunted her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z You are trapped in my embrace, Gaea said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z 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 “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 Captain Short was still trapped in the manor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “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 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 I’d never thought anything of it until the day I felt trapped out there. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z “He wept and wept until the whole land flooded and all the islands drifted away from each other. He wound up trapped on an island all alone until a crocodile came and ate him.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He did not like the feeling of blood trapped in his head. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 I felt trapped again, like I had felt under the floorboards and down in the salt mine. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe that’s what happened when you got trapped in a flooding ship together. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z They know I was in the woods and should be trapped there now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There is no free water now on the surface of Mars, but there is evidence that there once was, and it is possible that there still is moisture trapped below the surface. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Hearing the rough snap of each button, I bend and squirm but am trapped in the quilt like a fly in a web. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z That trapped and cornered feeling slipped into my skin, and I quickly looped her arm. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 He was trapped in a pack of stragglers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Man in the White Shirt thought of those people trapped on the upper floors, and of the firefighters who’d have to climb ninety flights to reach them. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z 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 But beneath it she can sense his thoughts fluttering like trapped birds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “The ranch is north. The fire is sweeping up the whole ridge. We’ll be trapped.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It was as if my life was trapped between two words: run or stay. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You would not joke so had the queen trapped you!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 She felt trapped inside the kitchen where she worked. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 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 The gases in the rumen get trapped and the rumen inflates like a balloon until it presses against its lungs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It looks like a fallen star trapped inside my pocket. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 Elévée ran off to play with Pascal, rather than be trapped into this drear exercise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 But I was four or five feet up in the air, trapped and weak. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Looking back, I can see that we were all trapped in our own unhappy circumstances. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 If the universe is closed, light is trapped within it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 It was like I was a bug trapped inside a Macy’s bag. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z 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 The way he talks about getting out—it’s like he thinks we’re trapped. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 EST, a boat off the coast of Maryland becomes trapped in ice. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Frost painted the ground the color of a gravestone, ashes trapped in ice. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel trapped in the moment, then jump my own cab and go after him. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z A solinium flare ricocheted around the room like a trapped bolt of blue lightning. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Moreover, I had trapped myself beneath the table and could neither approach Hamlet nor retreat without being seen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “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 ‘These lights? They’re all round us now. Are we trapped? Who are they?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 We were trapped between a monster and a fully armed helicopter. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 You will be trapped here alone for the rest of your life. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Though my arms are trapped, I rock my body to try to seal the quilt around me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 Luke glanced at his men, and he saw I’d trapped him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Flames were licking up its sides from where a torch had fallen on straw, and she could hear the screaming of the animals trapped within. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 Ignatius belched the gas of a dozen brownies trapped by his valve. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “How small the city is. How small they have to make everyone to keep them trapped there.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Like the earth, the sandy bricks radiated the day’s trapped heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Their problem was that they were trapped in roles dictated by the heavy weight of their country’s cultural legacy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 It turned out they had been trapped at locations all over central Uganda. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Its golden edges shine like a trapped sun in the early evening darkness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z We are, all of us, trapped in a pocket of unending violence. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z 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 His right arm was trapped under him, his left arm flung out to the side. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 I was trapped in so many cross turns. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Then we’ll be truly trapped in the cellar, in constant danger of discovery. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z 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 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 On screen, the cherry trees froze, blossoms trapped in midair. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She can watch the wind shift the drifts of snow trapped in the courtyard behind me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 She had been trapped inside a bag that smelled like earth and rotten cabbage. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The boy wrenches his trapped arm away from me and throws me to the ground. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z And “hell” was the right way to describe the room she’d gotten trapped in. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I felt trapped and occasionally, for a few days, I would stop reading. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Trujillo was doing all the crazy things of a trapped animal. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, in this story was all these people trapped inside their own town because the plague attacks them and they are put into quarantine.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z 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 I see myself getting trapped in an obvious airless pocket. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z 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 Mass incarceration depends for its legitimacy on the widespread belief that all those who appear trapped at the bottom actually chose their fate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “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 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 We stop to rest for a few moments under the tree where the Careers trapped me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They were being trapped like animals in a pen, ready for the slaughter. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z "Sometimes good people get trapped in the dark." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “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 Just like being trapped by a forest fire. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Daddy held the lid open so I wouldn’t get trapped. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Some of those in the gallery had begun to slip quietly away, but the notables on the floor were trapped, unable to depart without the king's leave. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Wait...these giants trapped my dad in a bronze jar?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I think, This is what it must feel like to be trapped in quicksand. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z 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 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 I stood still, and felt instantly trapped inside a stage play of rehearsed hostility. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z 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 “Idiots. They built their door so it opened out. When it snowed, they trapped themselves inside. The weaklings couldn’t pull or claw the door down!” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She shook her head from side to side, her mouth moving with trapped words. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Maybe there is beauty, trapped somewhere deep beneath this black skin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z 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 Now he was trapped in this house full of soldiers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 If a troop of Peacekeepers were to come through that door, we’d be trapped like rats. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Mr. Flux exploded, “Because I was trapped with these idiots!” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 The Rusties had been stuck down in these streets like a horde of rats trapped in a burning maze. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 He felt trapped like a worm in a nut. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 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 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 I'm trapped in the glare of his strange golden brown eyes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Roberta shut her eyes to keep the tears trapped under her eyelids. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z 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 "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 They seemed to be trapped in them, Piper realized, as if their feet were glued to the stone along with the decorative seashells. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Do not go anywhere south of here. We’re trapped that way.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 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 Violet stood up and took off her coat, carefully pulling her arms trapped in frayed silk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 I can’t leave town without the two of them in tow, so until I can find them I’m trapped here. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “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 That we will be trapped like rats until the hour passes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z My hands are totally and completely trapped now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z 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 “Because once we get the other horses loaded you’ll be trapped back here.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z 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 Ten minutes later, her engines still at full steam, the cruiser heeled and sank with many of her crew still trapped belowdecks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z 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 Was she trapped in the wrong terminal, worried that her new husband had abandoned her? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 She was trapped on the route to the railroad. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They are a moment of process, trapped on the canvas. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She trapped herself, she marched into the labyrinth of her own construction, and was too young, too awestruck, too keen to please, to insist on making her own way back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And then I draw a shriveled girl trapped within her shadow. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Something—a sage hen?—was trapped in its talons. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He drew my trapped hands around his back, holding me to his chest. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 there all right, trapped in that room. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z People trapped in this system were forced to work for little or no pay. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The littlest, like the one that had trapped Gum Baby, only had the collar head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I’m trapped inside the guardhouse, which means I’m safe from the beast. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z 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 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 I was trapped in that book and I couldn’t get out. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 There seemed to be a cool breeze trapped inside the car. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The seniors chased him and trapped him, like a snarling wolf, up against the emergency exit door. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 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 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 I bet kids in Arizona enjoy playing hooky more than kids trapped in Central New York. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I am his prisoner, in the backseat, trapped by child locks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z As if everyone trapped in this hole didn’t know they were in trouble. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z 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 “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 Joey found one, trapped it in a paper cup, and brought it to me. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Ha, I’m about as trapped as a skylark in the air on a clear day! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z 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 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 Rather than pushing the UP button, Clytius stepped back from the controls, keeping their friends trapped inside. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 All I could hear was her breath, trapped behind cupped palms. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z 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 Only, when I put my arms around his neck, I find myself trapped in his embrace. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z 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 became aware of how his body felt in that moment: cramped and trapped. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 In an instant Matt had him trapped inside the bag. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 We were each a man trapped inside a boy's body. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Of trapped lightning, of fire, of powders that explode.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t let her stay trapped in a place she didn’t want to be. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z 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 “Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 That may seem like plenty of room, but try being trapped in a van for eight days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Captain Nemo has planted his flag on the South Pole, but if he doesn’t move the submarine north soon, they will become trapped in ice. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When he had eaten, he felt restless, trapped. 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 There, the local ground crew discovered Zhenya’s body trapped in her Yak. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The little peasant had trapped her lips between her teeth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “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 room appeared to be a reception area, with rows of straight-backed chairs facing a massive desk and some filing cabinets, all trapped inside tons of ice. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I could tell Minnijean was trapped and desperate, and very fast running out of patience. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “My teammates will see that I’m trapped,” I say to him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 It was trapped in a small clear box, and it was black with yellow splotches. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z The glass panes in the windows are stained gray as trapped smoke, making the light strange. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 Finding itself trapped, surrounded by predators, it would beat itself to death trying to get free. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 He was quick on his feet, but he often got trapped in gym class or in comers of the hall, where he was kicked and punched. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No painter trapped on Earth ever imagined a world so strange and lovely. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Sneaky's snoring is like thunder trapped in a blender. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I shudder, repulsed at everything that I may or may not be, wanting to escape but trapped again. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 If she went up to the roof to check for Peris, she’d be trapped. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 He examined the room he was trapped in. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “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 “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 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 I want to move, but am trapped in a cocoon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The forest became a kingdom trapped under a curse of darkness.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “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 He heard horns blaring to his left; cars were trapped at the light at 5th because of the throngs of people streaming by. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I try to get up, but Bernard has me trapped. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 “Tad rescued me instead and got trapped with the rest of us.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z After a considerable amount of time spent trapped within the room, Bailey finds a key concealed in the seat of the swing in the middle of the cage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “They don’t know what it’s like to be trapped.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z One night, while talking to his wife about his life, he used the word “trapped.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z 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 So now we all sit there, silent, forks in hand, trapped at the dinner table. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Her plane flipped and she was trapped in the dark and the cold. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “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 I crack the window open to let out the heat trapped in my room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z 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 Cries trapped in the thickness of my pillow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “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 He has the look of a trapped man, a man with a gnawing secret. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z 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 Hazel stared out of the window and watched the houses shrink and thought of villains and snow globes and what it would be like to be trapped inside. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z One last log spins, trapped in a swirl of current. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z 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 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 “And what of our dead, trapped up there?” she asked. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z 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 Everything has this kind of energy trapped within it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So here we are, trapped thanks to me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A very cute puppy, trapped in the back seat, presses his nose and paws up against the helicopter's smoky glass windows. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There were people trapped in the glass paperweight on the policeman’s desk. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of the voices below grew louder, getting trapped between my ears. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z 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 That was harder, because the clean air had to be trapped and compressed into a tank. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z 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 It was first thought to be hot intergalactic hydrogen, an immense amount of it never before seen, perhaps enough to close the Cosmos and to guarantee that we are trapped in an oscillating universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was as trapped as a roach under a dishrag! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 She was trapped and she took the best possible way out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “On three,” said Harry, looking back down at the locket and narrowing his eyes, concentrating on the letter S, imagining a serpent, while the contents of the locket rattled like a trapped cockroach. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z 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 “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 She gives him a look that one trapped person gives another; then Fredericks mother swishes out of a side room wearing tennis clothes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Evelyn is in that city, and Marcus, and all the grief and nightmares and bad memories, and the factions that kept me trapped inside one version of myself. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Percy couldn’t help thinking of Mrs. O’Leary, and how much she would hate being trapped inside one of those. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 She thinks she is more trapped than she actually is. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I was trapped in the corner of the bedroom like a dog. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z 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 huge steel city—and thousands trapped inside—was sinking to the bottom of the sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “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 The crocodiles had been trapped and burned to death in an eruption of Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Prophecy of Gray’ trapped you, as it trapped us, long ago.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Because if I got trapped in a blaze started by arcing electrical overload in the wall of the garage, the searing pain of losing my mom and dad would go up in smoke with me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 What shook me the most was realizing that I had trapped myself under the bed without a gun. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been lulled, lured and trapped, and there was nothing he could do but sit there like an idiot and watch the ugly black puffs smashing up to kill him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z 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 On the third day, Curt Lemon stepped on a booby- trapped 105 round. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 My heart was fluttering like a trapped bird. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Suddenly, it has me trapped in its light. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When I dream, I dream that I’m the one trapped behind the window. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 When the seas rose again, some people were trapped on the island, which was poor in resources. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 And a frantic trapped feeling came over him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Then the wings were trapped again by the filmy, almost invisible strands of the web, and the black legs kicked at the air. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z 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 “That was a bull shark. It was trapped in a salt pond on the Cape.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I feel like I’m trapped inside my own head. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z They were fast and irregular, like a pair of trapped moths. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I hoped to see its soul trapped inside its head. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “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 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 There was a snap, and the hand was trapped in a mousetrap. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z 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 I froze, trapped between the urge to flee and the unbearable thought of being alone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 Yet, as much as she hated it, it was better to be outside in the brisk sea air than trapped indoors behind the Academy's suffocating stone walls. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I threw my eyes around in panic like Black Beauty trapped in the flames. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 They were trapped down there, just like everyone else. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Bod realized that he was trapped when he heard the lock turn in the door. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He was trapped by his beard and earlocks, he said, and there was nothing he could do. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And if we can’t, we are trapped like birds in a net. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I was afraid I might be trapped in Rufus’s time for a longer period if I went again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He was trapped in a pit without a friend in the world, and he was afraid. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z 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 A small rag doll covered with what looked like blood was trapped under one of the bus’ front wheels. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I laugh at the ingenuity of my poor, trapped countryman. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 I am almost as trapped as I was in the instrument closet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “You must feel as if you are trapped in a dream, Overlander.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “We’re trapped. We have to get out of here. We have to get out of here.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 Under that tarp, wearing space suits, they dissected any small animals they had trapped, looking for signs of Marburg virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We all seem to be trapped in some sort of a cage. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s definitely not Aurora trapped in the middle of Route 3. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Then, I think, I don’t know why, what if we’re trapped? Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z They trapped and hunted moose, caribou, otters, and beavers; they speared fish and clams and mussels. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 |
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