Example Sentences

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“I’m sure a lot of people will be escaping the heat and heading to the beach.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2025

“If they bore a hole through Belmarsh, that would be impressive. But I don’t think they will be escaping anytime soon.”

From Fox News • Apr. 29, 2019

Only last Sunday one of them said to me when talking of my husband: 'He will be escaping from the Germans some of these days.'

From The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland by Pearson, George