Example Sentences

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Whether this will become a $15 million boondoggle for the district is unclear, but the relationship, possibly, is escapable, if need be.

From Washington Times • Sep. 9, 2020

For Schopenhauer, living on these terms, perpetually under the cloud of suffering, meant a kind of endless nightmare, escapable only in death.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2020

Otherwise we’d all be doomed; we’d sink under the lurking question of what’s escapable, the fear that real change isn’t possible for certain people from certain places.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2019

Is the reach of the state ever escapable?

From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2018

He knew as long as he kept his eyes upon his book she was much too considerate to disturb him, and between phonographic noise and rheumatic reminiscence, he chose the former as being escapable.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman