Example Sentences

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Escorting ships through the strait will be an intensive task that will require “full-time work” from the ships involved, said retired Vice Adm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Escorting audience members into a studio at Gibney Dance, Ms. Livingstone smiled and spoke softly, like a hostess at a spa.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2018

Escorting the super-carrier, which was carrying more than 3,000 military personnel on a route some 125 nautical miles east of Malaysia, were a trio of guided-missile destroyers and an Aegis cruiser.

From Time • Apr. 28, 2016

Monica Hesse: Escorting in itself -- as in, paying for someone to accompany you to a party or office function -- is not illegal.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2010

Escorting Miss Caroline to her home that night, I listened to her account of this colloquy and found myself wishing that matters had been different.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Wilson, Harry Leon