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Example sentences for: escape

How can you use “escape” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Many were condemned to death, and still more fled the country to escape persecution.
Athens managed to escape the scourge, but only after 700 b.c. did it take over and lift to unimagined heights the heritage of Mycenae and Crete.
If for no other reason, it has provided an excuse to escape for a day the pressure--cooker atmosphere associated with putting the finishing touches on a major rate case decision.
Hungary was the ﬁrst country to draw back its Iron Curtain, dismantling the barbed wire along its Austrian border and allowing East Germans to escape to the West.
Nita Lowey would have been the best candidate, actually, but at this point she could never escape the comparisons and the celebrity gap.