Sentence example with the word 'entraps'

entraps

Last update: August 16, 2015


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Every drop of mercury, as it enters from the funnel, entirely closes the narrow tube like a piston, and in going past the place where the side tube enters entraps a portion of air and carries it down to the trough, where it can be collected.   [Please select]

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We cannot help asking ourselves why the pitcher-plant entraps these insects.   [Please select]

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Meanwhile the first assailant, having secured one noose, comes up from behind with another, with which, amidst the vain rage and struggles of the victim, he entraps a fore leg, the rope being, as before, secured to another tree in front, and the whole four feet having been thus entangled, the capture is completed.   [Please select]

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