ESCAPE in a Sentence
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301 example sentences for ESCAPE, such as:
1. TV is used as an escape from reality.
2. No one can escape from the prison camp.
3. He didn't allow any word to escape his lips.
4. It won't be easy for them to escape extradition.
5. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
2. No one can escape from the prison camp.
3. He didn't allow any word to escape his lips.
4. It won't be easy for them to escape extradition.
5. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ESCAPE
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escape
v. run away from confinement
n. a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 She had immediately loathed nursing but she could not escape this duty because she was on both Mrs. Meade's and Mrs. Merriwether's committees.
2 Scarlett had no qualm of conscience as she watched them but only a feeling of vast relief that she had made her escape.
3 They fell over the dirty face of a wounded man who feebly tried to turn his head to escape from their smothering folds.
4 Her first terrified impulse was to hide in the closet, crawl under the bed, fly down the back stairs and run screaming to the swamp, anything to escape him.
5 Then she heard his cautious feet on the front steps and his stealthy tread as he entered the hall and she knew that escape was cut off.
6 Ashley, like her, was tired of the struggle and he wanted to escape.
7 It was going to be difficult to escape from her chaperonage and she did not intend to rouse Mammy's fighting blood before it was absolutely necessary.
8 For weeks after Tony's escape, Aunt Pitty's house was subjected to repeated searches by parties of Yankee soldiers.
9 But much as she disliked having him see her with the slenderness gone from her waist and the lightness from her step, it was something she could not escape now.
10 Rene was managing it with true French thrift and Grandpa Merriwether, glad to escape from his chimney corner, was driving Rene's pie wagon.
11 She wanted to get away from herself, and conversation was the only means of escape that she knew.
12 She uttered a smiling acceptance, hailing in the renewal of the tie an escape from Trenor's importunities.
13 But Trenor, with a promptness which did not escape her, had moved between herself and the door.
14 She had never felt less like making the attempt than on the present occasion; but she had sought in vain for any other means of escape from an intolerable situation.
15 Selden knew that Bertha would fight to the last round of powder: the rashness of her conduct was illogically combined with a cold determination to escape its consequences.
Example Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
1 Hundreds of refugees fled across the border to escape the fighting.
2 He didn't allow any word to escape his lips.
3 Vents allow any steam to escape if the system overheats.
4 Of young men die many, of old men escape not any.
5 The more you fight something, the more anxious you become ---the more you're involved in a bad pattern, the more difficult it is to escape.
6 TV is used as an escape from reality.
7 I weighed up my chances of escape, and decided to wait for a better moment.
8 Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
9 No one can escape from the prison camp.
10 It won't be easy for them to escape extradition.
11 One company is giving its employees airplane tickets in the event they need to make a hasty escape.
12 Pleasure and pain are the wealth of life, to escape its negative, as some of the face of courage, in fact, be able to recall a blessing.
13 Robert was lucky to escape with just a broken foot after being squashed against a fence by a car.
14 She tried to escape the unwanted attentions of her former boyfriend.
15 The pistols were loaded so our escape is indeed providential.