way-out

Example Sentences

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He gave in and was assigned to an army medical unit for a year -- where he met contract soldiers trying to find a way out.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

“He’s a slider guy. I got a good pitch to hit, put a good swing on it and it found a way out of here.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

This debt doesn’t necessarily mean you are “trapped,” but you may have to bide your time to make sure the door doesn’t hit you — hard — on the way out.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

In Shanxi, the province that sits at the heart of China's coal-mining industry, there's long been a saying: "Only go down a coal pit when you have no other way out."

From BBC • May 31, 2026

As long as she didn’t have a baby or I didn’t hear of it, there was a way out of this.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff