Definition: 1. To get away from a place where you have been kept as a prisoner or not allowed to leave. 2. Run away from confinement. 3. Fail to experience.
Use 'escape' in a sentence:
1. She managed to escape.
2. For her travel was an escape from the boredom of her everyday life.
3. We managed to escape observation.
4. The man's girlfriend managed to escape unhurt.
5. Little by little, he formulated his plan for escape.
6. The child was lured into a car but managed to escape.
7. They managed to escape under cover of darkness.
8. It will not have escaped your notice that there have been some major changes in the company.
9. As a child he would often escape into a dreamworld of his own.
10. She managed to escape from the burning car.
11. That was the luckiest escape of my life.
12. She felt she had to escape from the claustrophobia of family life.
13. She tried to escape but he tugged her back.
14. The clinic felt like Alcatraz. There was no escape.
15. They had escaped to America shortly before war broke out in 1939.
16. Two police officers had a narrow escape when rioters attacked their vehicles.
17. The pistols were loaded so our escape is indeed providential.
18. The man made his escape.
19. They were hacked to death as they tried to escape.
20. Yasin had seriously hurt himself while trying to escape from the police.
21. She yearned to escape from her office job.
22. He tried to escape by diving into a river.
23. The prisoners attempted an escape, but failed.
24. By some freak of fate they all escaped without injury.
25. They made no attempt to escape.
26. The guards were ordered to shoot on sight anyone trying to escape.
27. She was lucky to escape punishment.
28. The two officers were extremely lucky to escape serious injury.
29. Children were evacuated from London to escape the bombing.
30. I hear you had a very narrow escape on the bridge.
31. Any escape, once it's detected, sets off the alarm.
32. Clouds of toxic fumes escaped in a huge chemical factory blaze.
33. They were glad to have escaped the clutches of winter for another year.
34. I was lucky to escape with minor injuries.
35. Put a lid on to prevent heat escaping.
36. No detail was too small to escape her attention.
37. There is no escape from the long arm of the law.
38. Police searched the area but found no trace of the escaped prisoners.
39. They escaped out the back way.
40. She began to lay her plans for her escape.
41. He took an elaborate escape route from South Africa to Britain.
42. As soon as he turned his back, she would make her escape.
43. The animal had slipped free and escaped.
44. They were accused of aiding him in his escape.
45. They were accused of aiding his escape.
46. Water gradually escapes by seepage through the ground.
47. She tried to escape the unwanted attentions of her former boyfriend.
48. Many problems, however, escape detection.
49. There was no escaping the fact that he was overweight.
