caped
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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In the driver’s seat, I turned on the windshield wipers, and three arms scaped dust from the outside glass.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025
"Yes, Mr. Tom, he scaped me all right."
From Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera, or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
Him followed his next mate; Both glorying to have scaped the Stygian flood As gods, and by their own recovered strength, Not by the sufferance of supernal Power.
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
How long his senses bore its chilling chain, He knew not—but, recalled to Life again, A stranger stood beside his shivering form— And what was he? had he too scaped the storm?
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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