escape

Example Sentences

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Tammy Abraham's opener was clearly offside, Villa's full-back Lucas Digne inexplicably escaped conceding a penalty for handball and the Frenchman could easily have been dismissed for a reckless challenge as well.

From BBC

After a suit-and-tie celebration, which neither seems too celebratory about, Shane leaves his hotel room in a huff and escapes to the hotel gym for a late night stationary bike ride.

From Salon

Little attention was paid to the environmental catastrophe for Lake Maracaibo, destination of much of the escaping crude.

From Los Angeles Times

We meet in a park and sit under a cafe's gazebo to escape the rain.

From BBC

The film's depiction of the desparate crush at Kabul airport of people escaping approaching Taliban forces made use of a disused German prison.

From Barron's