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 Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson)

Yet he smiled, almost maliciously, as he thought: "I am escaping her, after all!"

From A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage by Morris, Clara

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 Collins, Wilkie