escape
verb (used without object)
to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty.
am escaping
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present progressiveof escape (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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As for me, I am escaping from Russia once more.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2015
"I am escaping only to prove my innocence," he wrote.
From Time Magazine Archive
I want to have a vivid impression of the misery I am escaping from.
From Three Dramas by R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) Sharp
I live professionally in an atmosphere of disputation, Mr. Hartright, and I am only too glad to escape from it, as I am escaping here.
From The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Did I understand you aright that I am escaping and have left that boy to bear the brunt of my folly, to suffer for my madness imprisonment and maybe death?”
From The King's Esquires The Jewel of France by George Manville Fenn
