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How to use escape in a sentence

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There was a host of tasks, from shoring up the fire escape to re-wiring to new windows.
The two ships then released all of their escape pods, effectively hiding the one with Brimstone and his second in command.
We will be able to hit a moving target, or even a target that is stationary at weapons release but attempts to escape as the weapon is in-flight.
He followed her, settling his weight on top of her in a most possessive way and not allowing her any room to escape from his relentless pursuit.
It seemed he would never escape the relentless torture of being forced to choose a bride.
The only sound I could hear was the steady pace of my own breathing, which along with the rhythmic escape of air bubbles was quite hypnotic.
A banned driver drove his car dangerously down St Peters Way and then demolished a lamp post as he tried to escape police.
To escape the budget syndrome, we need to reassert core values and revalue faculty expertise and participation.
Doherty still has a chance of saving the frame but misses the penultimate red when attempting to escape from a snooker behind the yellow.
The only way to escape the ravages of the plague is to find a place the zombies can't reach.
Cops cuffed him and brought him to the Guy station where he attempted to escape by hopping a small wall.
For Hewitt, nature becomes a refuge, a place to which he can retreat and escape from the rigours of life.
With a voice so void of emotion it was hollow, the child retold his story and details of his escape.
In spite of reform in the law they say conviction rates are not encouraging and in most cases the killers escape justice.
From deep within the recesses of his brain, Joel attempts to escape the procedure.
Here, however, momentary escape into the wild blue yonder gives way to reality as his body is found amongst the vehicle's twisted wreckage.
I only hope that I am able to restrain them before these unutterable terrors escape into the world at large.
Mr Wynn, an 18-year-old archaeology student at the University of York, managed to escape and raise the alarm.
Any attempt to escape will fail, and repentance may give you a shorter time of imprisonment.
I had to stay for dinner as it was all arranged, but managed to make my escape afterwards.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He shook his head, then turned to the other window, that facing upon the fire escape.
Note that this was downwind for him, and that rhinoceroses usually escape upwind.
The man who affirms that they are contented and happy, and do not desire to escape, is either a falsifier or a fool.
But that had been better than the dry-rot of an escape from righteous punishment.
While there, a little rosy, fair-haired boy ran laughing by, as if trying to escape from some one.
The first matter that here demands our attention is that of allowing the exudate to escape at the sole.
But if either of us will do, that'll give us each a fifty-fifty chance to escape your toils.
There are some questions which escape the doctor, unless he is also an educationist and a psychologist.
So he, too, began to experience a keen interest in the escape of the dazzler.
The man who did escape from Ellington, just sixteen years before, was discovered to be living near Malden, Canada.
So he lived always on the wing, and ended by exiling himself from Sardinia in order to escape the trammels of paternal government.
The president, Wingfield, attempted to embezzle the public stores, and escape to the West Indies.
He then endeavored to effect an escape, by flight, 277 and the Indians followed after him.
Balance WheelA term often incorrectly applied to the balance itself, but properly it is the escape wheel of the verge escapement.
The memory of her beauty was like a net which enmeshed his thoughts when he tried to escape it.
The death adder, so the keeper told us, is the most dangerous of all the Australian snakes, as it never tries to escape.
If he could only get around to the window he could dart out and down the fire escape.
DropThat part of the motion of the escape wheel when it is not in contact with the pallet.
But the man of old might as well have tried to escape from the jaws of the saber-toothed tiger.
This recoil is the slight motion backwards which the escape wheel makes at each tick.
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