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For example, Nancy Romanovsky’s oil paintings reflect scenes such as a tide scape at Tolmie State Park along Puget Sound.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
Thinly slice the scapes into discs by holding the scape perpendicular to your knife.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023
That trait spent the afternoon surmounting an unusual hell scape of obstacles.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022
In L.A., where lowrider culture reigns supreme, a custom 1960 Chevrolet Impala is still cruising slow down Van Nuys Boulevard to show off the intricate airbrush scape on its hood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
Embryo straight, in the centre of the albumen, slender.—Low alpine perennial, with round-kidney-form and long-petioled leaves chiefly from the root, obliquely truncate sheaths, and small greenish flowers clustered in panicled racemes on a slender scape.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
In the driver’s seat, I turned on the windshield wipers, and three arms scaped dust from the outside glass.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
Hard was his lot whom these rare qualities Preserved not, neither had his dauntless heart Been iron, had he scaped his cruel doom.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
How long his senses bore its chilling chain, He knew not—but, recalled to Life again, A stranger stood beside his shivering form— And what was he? had he too scaped the storm?
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Verily verily I say unto you: He that heareth my words, And believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into damnation: but is scaped from death unto life.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
The chase endured a five English miles, and if the Scots had been men enow, there had none scaped, but other they had been taken or slain.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
As her body was lowered into the ground, men surrounded the grave, scaping the sand and dirt over it with their hands and placing a rough headstone.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2022
If the pallets embraced 4 teeth, the angle would be 84°; or in case of a 16 tooth wheel scaping over three teeth, the angle would be 360 × 2.5⁄16 = 56¼°.
From An Analysis of the Lever Escapement by H. R. Playtner
