How to Use ensnare in a Sentence

ensnare

verb

• The animals got ensnared in the net.
• The police successfully ensnared the burglar.
• But the rest of us, even the skeptics, are ensnared in the same structures.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
• Lies told first to impress her, then to ensnare her, then to keep her.
  — Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2021
• Once ensnared, smaller drones can be dragged away by the DroneHunter.
  — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
• Plastics can ensnare and trap marine life or end up in the stomachs of creatures large and small.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2021
• Queens had the charm of the South, conveniences of the northern lifestyle and was close enough to the teeming jazz scene of Harlem without being ensnared.
  — Mia Jackson, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• Once the trio gets in there, however, the tentacles lining the hallways spring to life and ensnare our heroes.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 4 July 2022
• In 2011, his now-defunct News of the World newspaper was ensnared in a phone hacking scandal.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• The photograph was the work of a makeup artist — the coup de grace of a straight-out-of-Hollywood ruse agents had devised to ensnare Aslanian.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• He got caught on something — his antlers ensnared in dog run cable, photos show.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2024
• Housing courts are again filling up and ensnaring the likes of 79-year-old Maria Jackson.
  — Michael Casey, Fortune, 17 June 2023
• Bernie Madoff, whose pyramid scheme ensnared tens of billions of dollars, was sentenced to 125 years in prison.
  — Byleo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 3 Oct. 2023
• Its barbed limbs are adept at ensnaring small crustaceans and fish, breaking them down inside its body.
  — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• Some public lands allow hunters to put down animal traps that might ensnare a dog.
  — James Gaines, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2023
• For the flytrap, the very leaves that snap shut and ensnare unwary prey also trap sunlight for use in the photosynthetic process.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• Our Body shows that all bodies in a hospital are ensnared in a subtle warfare.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
• First the Car Wash scandal starting in 2014, which ensnared much of Brazil’s political class in a sprawling bribery and kickback scheme.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• The fact that hyenas managed to ensnare this group suggests the area—now home to the coastal town of San Felice Circeo—hosted a large local population.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
• This show suggests that dwelling on what could have been to avoid a reality that hurts is the kind of human instinct that can ensnare even a superhero.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2021
• Who knew the already historic Snapchat filter, easily one of the best to use for thirst traps, would actually ensnare a prince?
  — Vulture, 15 Dec. 2022
• But requiring more third-party reporting would ensnare tens of thousands of small fish in hopes of catching a whale.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 May 2021
• Other materials can be ensnared by wool fibers, buckling and rippling as the wool shrinks.
  — Susan Brown, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• While the paperwork is simple, the zoning changes the law mandates can be big, big enough to spark complex conversations that could ensnare towns and cities for years.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2023
• Now Du was demonstrating how to use the hook handles of their canes to ensnare an attacker’s neck, how to thrust in one swift motion, how to whack a perpetrator on the toes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
• Bivens said the escapee was ensnared Saturday in a perimeter of law enforcement officers that was closing in on him in woods about 5 miles north of the city of Warren.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 16 July 2023
• Perhaps 20 of them parked themselves in the net’s path before the biologist touched off the rockets to ensnare 11 of them and, momentarily, one of the ibises.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
• Far better to lose a team than ensnare the public in another terrible financial deal for the sake of a sports franchise.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2021
• To ensnare their victims, the apps would bombard the user with popups, saying the victim had won a prize and needed to claim it immediately.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• The cost of buying special rope designed to sink, so as not to ensnare right whales, is adding up for Jon Williams, a fisherman in New Bedford who owns 14 boats that catch lobster, crab and hagfish.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 7 May 2024