narrow escape
Example Sentences
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Buoyed by that narrow escape, Paul then held to love to go 6-5 up, and suddenly the pressure was all on the 24-year-old from Buenos Aires, playing in his first ATP final.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Hers begins with her family’s narrow escape from an occupied village west of Kyiv in the early days of the war.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
He described his own narrow escape when the car he was travelling in got bogged down.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025
There are some marvelous set pieces, including an extended sequence on a claustrophobic boat and a narrow escape from an apartment that ratchet up the tension.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024
Of course, Dorothea would probably have written if she’d known about April’s narrow escape, but she hadn’t known.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
