“The guards have successfully thwarted an escape attempt by two inmates.”

“The expansion results in a seal that prevents the escape of gases.”

“I play word puzzles when I need an escape from reality.”

“The inmate's escapement from the maximum-security prison remains one of the most daring and elusive acts in criminal history.”

“One of the motors drives the escapement while another is used to select the character for printing.”

“In general, any lantern clock with a balance wheel has had its escapement restored.”

“A well-heeled urban escapee who could hire a decent architect could turn this into a smart holiday home.”

“The incident was sparked off at about noon by a sighting in Colchester of a prison escapee.”

“Constables in Humberside, England, got a tip that a prison escapee was living in their town.”

“Newman's passion for abstruse matters of theology strikes Wilson as escapism or worse.”

“Okay, this has been such a gonzo news week that I thought some escapism would do us all a world of good.”

“This is definitely a novel I would recommend if you are looking for a few hours of entertaining escapism.”

“San Marino were beaten, Croatia were held, and Brown's escapology confounded his critics once more.”

“Arsenal have an incredible record of navigating their way out of Champions League groups but their escapology stood to face the acid test.”

“For previous generations Southampton and Coventry City were Wigan's equivalent at the art of escapology.”

“Do duty in a prison yard and catch the escapist in this fun pretend-play police station game.”

“It could be argued that twenty-first-century people are fond of an escapist dreaming of the Middle Ages.”

“I was once on a TV programme with an escapologist who freed himself from a sack bound with chains.”

“Harry Houdini is known as the world's greatest escapologist, but he fostered a reputation for invulnerability that proved to be fatal.”

“Now a new film based on the life of Harry Houdini is set to tell the fictional tale of how the escapologist fell in love with an Edinburgh woman.”

“The body language of the escaper, who approached my position, was one of utter dejection, head down, shambling forward with obvious reluctance.”

“Like every prisoner in that 18th-century castle in Saxony, Crawford was a one-man awkward squad, a habitual escaper and troublemaker.”

“Survival on a southern chain gang is the main theme of this book in which a prolific escaper pits himself against authority in a constant test of wills.”

“It doesn't cater to the lowbrow philosophy that romance readers are all about intoxicating escapisms and lookisms and that they will shriek if someone over thirty gets naked.”

“The film is a difficult sell with too much action blockbuster for heady purists, too much intelligence for popcorn escapists.”

“Even hard core escapists are bound to be defeated by the generic tough-guy twaddle and the impersonal action sequences.”

“Ferda at first dismisses the Plastic People as long-haired escapists who have nothing to do with the real struggle.”

“Two escapees once stumbled upon the oasis by a sheer chance and pure luck, thus becoming the parents of the somber population.”

“He said that during follow-up operations 40 of the escapees were recaptured within a few kilometres of the prison.”

“Some escapees have found it exceedingly easy to walk away from prison and return to society.”

“Then followed a multitude of other escapes, gradually diminishing in sound but rolling and re-echoing through the troubled air.”

“Napoleon escapes by sea to return to Paris in hopes of dethroning the king and reinstating the republic.”

“After being repeatedly abused, the boy escapes, but something inside him is damaged for life.”