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

Is the reach of the state ever escapable?

From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2018

Saturday wasn’t necessarily the day to dwell on this, but it’s in escapable, too: The person making the decision on Durkin’s replacement will be Damon Evans, who somehow remains the athletic director.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2018

Wrong must seem to him to be dependent upon the will of another, and its disagreeable consequences to be escapable if only he can evade the will of that other.

From Study of Child Life by Washburne, Marion Foster