How To Use Escaped In A Sentence

They all escaped after jumping from the top floor of the burning house thanks to their neighbours' help.
The gang escaped with a haul worth hundreds of pounds.
And when he escaped, might it not have been to these ancient, forested hills? Times, Sunday Times
They thought he had escaped through a specially constructed tunnel.
Minutes after they escaped, there was a fire flashover and the whole building went up in flames.

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But they escaped the relegation trapdoor by just one point as Leicester were held at Stoke. The Sun
Apparently some creature called a kobold escaped from wherever my grandfather trapped it, and it has teamed up with Milo. Master of Mirrors
Aaewin asked without thinking, clapping her hands over her mouth after the words escaped.
Stewart's pigeon house almost succumbed under a drift six feet high, and half the pigeons escaped where the weight of sand forced an opening in the galvo.
He escaped a rolling road block by turning into the street where he lived, only to find it blocked by another police car. Times, Sunday Times
Whether it is a native cat, previously thought extinct, or an escaped exotic pet, the Beast of Bodmin is a creature that refuses to disappear.
Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by taking refuge under the porte-cochere of No. 6. Les Miserables
The lorry driver escaped unhurt, but a pedestrian was injured.
The breakout brings to 15 the number of awaiting-trial prisoners who have escaped from police holding cells in the Transkei since the weekend.
The raiders then escaped with about £ 300 from a safe.
Some escaped after a bouncer battered down a partition wall. Times, Sunday Times
I sighed softly, relieved to have escaped another untimely lecture.
While several councils have been fined for signing-off deficient work, in other cases councils have escaped responsibility because builders used independent certifiers.
The so-called "particularism" of Israel's idea of God was in fact the real strength of Israel's religion; it thus escaped from barren mythologisings, and became free to apply itself to the moral tasks which are always given, and admit of being discharged, only in definite spheres. Prolegomena
Most of it, however, had escaped into the atmosphere as heated gas and likely would not recondense for several hours. Harbinger
Florida escaped the pains of the lagging economy nationwide elsewhere because the state has such a small manufacturing base.
So it seems that overnight the one little pussy escaped from the alley.
Two suspects who had fled the stolen car involved in the chase escaped and were being sought in a house-to-house search.
As it was, we escaped with our lives - but it was a close-run thing.
The prisoner escaped from the prison by knotting the sheets together and climbing down them out to the window.
The disparity in halves hasn't escaped the coaching staff's attention. Washington Redskins are halfway there: First two quarters have been better than last two
The prisoner escaped through a hole in the wall.
He escaped with a hard glare. Times, Sunday Times
Having thus escaped the danger, the Romans threw their sentinel down the rock; while on Manlius they conferred by vote a reward for his bravery, intended more for honour than advantage; for each man gave him a day's rations, which consisted of half a Roman pound of meal, and the fourth part of a Greek cotyle of wine. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
The village has escaped all modern developments, yet without becoming twee or 'preserved'.
Venetians cheered from the rooftops as the docks burnt but the medieval city escaped damage. Times, Sunday Times
I'm afraid words have escaped me, and perhaps it is better as so.
He escaped with a cracked rib and bruising.
They escaped after the woman pretended she would run away with him. The Sun
Although the oil-rich kingdom has escaped the sort of unrest unleashed in Egypt, Libya or Tunisia, there have been signs of domestic discontent over high unemployment, as well as some nervousness that Saudi Arabia's Shiite Muslim minority could be inspired by the protests of their co-religionist neighbors in Bahrain. Saudi King to Return Home as Turmoil Sweeps Region
We present them the example of France as an unanswerable proof that one great nation can maintain bimetallism, and that by maintaining it she escaped the worst evils that have affected the monometallic countries, and assured for herself an extraordinary progress and prosperity. If Not Silver, What?
The pope and the king of France taught Edward II to dissolve the preceptories, to the number of twenty-three, belonging to the Templars; in 1410 the Commons petitioned for the confiscation of all church property; in 1414 the alien priories in England fell under the animadversion of the government; their property was handed over to the crown and they escaped only by the payment of heavy fines, by incorporation into English orders, and by partial confiscation of their land. The Age of the Reformation
I escaped him and went to the bathroom and vomited again and again until I felt that if I puked one more time, my body would disappear.
Claims 1965 shootdown, (Marine Captain) held in Hanoi, stabbed guard and escaped! Heroes or Villains?
Curtis earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in 1958's "The Defiant Ones, " playing an escaped racist convict chained to a black prisoner, portrayed by Sidney Poitier.
Kuyt escaped from Benoît Assou-Ekotto once to a flick-on from Carroll and set up a thwarted shooting opportunity from Charlie Adam as a result before the inevitable substitution arrived. Luis Suárez back for Liverpool but Dalglish starts with Andy Carroll
You escaped serious injury by a whisker, so consider yourselves very lucky.
In her bedroom she buried her face in the pillow while numerous sobs escaped her, shaking her slim body uncontrollably.
Apparently with parties and spray tans to think about, that little detail escaped her tiny mind. The Sun
The plant escaped from the fields and naturalized in the fencerows. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
As the breeze changed into a south-western gale, few of the passengers escaped seasickness.
Shots were fired and Tony narrowly escaped with his life.
I escaped with severely bruised legs.
The thieves escaped in a stolen vehicle.
Only Protestants escaped the onslaught, though they were never supporters of the regime.
Missouri fortunately escaped. opened my trunks and boxes and exposed the articles to dry. found my papers damp and several articles damp. the stoper had come out of a phial of laudinum and the contents had run into the drawer and distroyed a gret part of my medicine in such manner that it was past recovery. waited very impatiently for the return of The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
They escaped after the woman pretended she would run away with him. The Sun
I am privileged to have escaped the monotonous toil of endless physical labour and to have experienced a soft life in which I have been able to indulge my passion for history.
Her beautiful hands held a cup to the lips of the stranger; while her long hair, escaped from its bands, fell in jetty ringlets, and mingled with his silver locks. The Scottish Chiefs
Others have been dislocated from work, escaped from an abusive relationship or just have low self-esteem, which is where Mr. Ramchandani comes in. New Suits for New Starts
A wire caught Jim around the neck and he luckily escaped with lacerations.
The film also hammers the myth that one of the princesses escaped and fled to America. Times, Sunday Times
When Nia walked into Rephaims house, the bright and festive dcor surprised her, a stark contrast to the rooms appearance when shed escaped earlier. The After Wife
The only painting of his to change hands in recent years was a Nativity, stolen in 1969 from a church in Palermo - where Caravaggio had painted it after having escaped from gaol in Malta.
The sergeant has come instead for a blacksmith who can promptly mend the broken cuffs so that they can be put to use this afternoon in the hunt for two escaped convicts.
His defence that King John had disafforested Brewood saved his life and he escaped with only a fine.
For a while, words escaped me and I couldn't imagine what to say.
William, however, appears to have escaped not only unharmed, but with his appetite for soldiering undiminished.
Faced by an overwhelmingly superior force, our badly depleted three divisions had barely escaped being bagged in the net of which the enemy had all but drawn the noose in a strategetic surrounding movement. 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
But there were so many chances against them in all these cases, such as storms, to overset and founder them; rains and cold, to benumb and perish their limbs; contrary winds, to keep them out and starve them; that it must have been next to miraculous if they had escaped. The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
His name escaped her at the moment, but Catherine remembered that he was a senior.
The prisoner escaped by the back stairs.
If I'm guessing a-right, his forefathers were escaped bondsmen. A TIME OF WAR
Luck was on his side and somehow he escaped both a fall and a puncture.
His friend, Neil, escaped with cuts and bruises in the assault.
She escaped serious injury as a pavement cafe boss rushed to grab her shoulders as she was left dangling yesterday. The Sun
“The Arab al-Arabá” (or al — Aribah, or al-Urubíyat) are the autochthones, prehistoric, proto-historic and extinct tribes; for instance, a few of the Adites who being at Meccah escaped the destruction of their wicked nation, but mingled with other classes. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Two were injured, but he escaped.
Lamarr escaped the marriage by drugging the maid and climbing out a window.
Getting the message, each of the couples escaped to the dance floor.
For a moment Trent and Mariana were held immobile, stunned by the incredible power from which they had so narrowly escaped.
Latvians who escaped persecution in their occupied country and set up home in Bradford have been given a special preview of a moving exhibition.
Collar found in girl's possession had Dyran's brand, identified as concubine collar last worn by Serina Daeth, slave who escaped to desert under sentence of death for bearing halfblood. The Elvenbane
Aided by the remoteness of its location , Machu Picchu escaped destruction.
He escaped death by an inch.
He escaped a rolling road block by turning into the street where he lived, only to find it blocked by another police car. Times, Sunday Times
The little pismire tried to have me arrested and confined, but I escaped him using two of my sigils. Conqueror's Moon
He didn't mean for it to, but a choked sob escaped from his throat.
Despite his training from speech therapists, a slight twang escaped Cutler's lips on that final word.
It won't have escaped your notice that I've been unusually busy recently.
At different times of the year, the Campbell hosts all five species of Pacific salmon: chinook, coho, chum, sockeye, pink - and even the odd Atlantic salmon escaped from a nearby fish farm.
Both players escaped with a yellow card. Times, Sunday Times
The storm had passed and they escaped safely to land.
She escaped through a secret door.
These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.
Five firemen narrowly escaped death when a staircase collapsed beneath their feet.
He lifted the bag of diamonds and turned it upside down with one surprisingly swift movement: like little cockroaches, the jewels escaped and beetled off in all directions: “There, ya snuffling swine, truffles fer ya!” At a Welsh Wedding
They come from southern Asia, and are the descendants of birds that were released or escaped from captivity. Times, Sunday Times
He reported on the war until 1965 and narrowly escaped death after being shot down in combat aircraft three times. Times, Sunday Times
The one who escaped submitted a statement to the local court: the sheriff declared the arrest illegal, fined the bailiff, and insisted that the original dispute over labour payments could be heard only when the men were freed.
Amidst all the hubbub about politician's perks last week, one chap escaped everyone's notice until it came up in Senate estimates this week.
She and her husband and two children escaped with cuts and bruises after a wave smashed through the windscreen of their van.
Urban myths are the stuff of nightmares; the stories people tell to spook each other, such as the two lovers in a remote lane, at a time when an escaped mental patient is on the loose.
A 19-year-old who escaped police still wearing the handcuffs used to detain him has been brought to justice.
The attackers escaped with her light fawn plastic shopping bag, which contained her denim purse and cash and a white cagoule.
After hiding in the hole for several days,the escaped prisoner gave himself up.
As Adam opened his mouth to place a piece of meat in it, a long, loud belch escaped, seeming to reverberate indefinitely in the open dining room.
For when the spirit, or moisture turned to spirit, has escaped from some porous body (as wood, bone, parchment, and the like), then the grosser parts are with stronger effort drawn and collected together; whence ensues induration or desiccation, which I take to be owing not so much to the motion of connection to prevent a vacuum as to this motion of friendship and union. The New Organon
I went clammy, cursing myself for not having escaped sooner. THE TARTAN RINGERS
BUNGLING firemen blasted an escaped red panda 40ft out of a tree in a botched rescue bid. The Sun
From there, the deportees eventually escaped to refugee camps.
They escaped impeachment only by making a very large loan to the Parliament at a crucial stage.
Other politicians in other countries have behaved worse and escaped to survive and prosper. Times, Sunday Times
Once I'd escaped I walked a few blocks to the European Climate Exchange (which trades in carbon credits), where a very different, "fluffier" protest was taking root. The Nation: Top Stories
In the film they play escaped cons with bad teeth.
At a party I met a striking young woman whose hair escaped in a shock of dark anarchic curls.
Owing to diffusion gas escapes with extraordinary rapidity, and if the fabric used is not absolutely gastight the air finds its way in where the gas has escaped. British Airships, Past, Present, and Future
While the history of this participation remains sketchy and incomplete, individual contributions have not escaped notice.
But Lachlan himself was the miracle, always standing stupefied and shocked, having escaped with only a few cuts and bruises.
She had barely escaped disinheritance but that didn't stop her from confronting her father or taunting him about her lifestyle.
The female escaped but the male deer suffered appalling injuries as it tried to get away from the crowds of jeering onlookers.
The government is creating a force that will suppress the criminally influential, but many have escaped the blacklist whether through influence or virtue.
Pop described how he escaped Mayo poverty, four years before the Easter Rising, by stowing away on a boat to England, where he planned to earn passage to America.
Her face was fixed on her, through the night; she was the creature who had escaped by force from her cage, yet there was in her whole motion assuredly, even as so dimly discerned, a kind of portentous intelligent stillness. The Golden Bowl — Complete
They recaptured the prisoner who escaped last night.
The demons and other beasts that escaped banishment hid in the dark places of the world, like the forests and great pits.
Shapiro escaped with false papers to Gomel, where the chief of police, a former Red Army officer, sent her to a German racial "specialist. Witnesses to Horror
A major search is under way to find the escaped prisoners.
“Liza could brag about her experience with fire, too—how she and her sister had escaped with their baby-sitter through a third-floor window, but a playmate had hidden in a closet and died.” Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
The escaped convict took to the hills
In most of the documentaries the testimonies come one after the other, often lapsing into a monotone, telling the viewers what the speakers had seen, how they had escaped or been rescued and, sometimes, what it meant to them.
The King's son Edward escaped from imprisonment at Gloucester, and mustered an army.
they saw a coyote in the dark but it escaped
Sentimental children forever whining about how bitterly unfair your lives have been. Well,it may have escaped you notice, but life isn't fair.
At the other end of the vertebrate scale, hominoids have similarly provided the butt for many a joke, while Darwin himself has not escaped completely the humorists' pen or pencil.
The police are pursuing an escaped prisoner.
Nevertheless, the vast majority of servants seem to have escaped impregnation - illegitimacy rates were low, between 2 and 5 per cent.
A major search is under way to find the escaped prisoners.
According to a recent profile in the New York Times Magazine, physicist Freeman Dyson escaped from his stereotypically hellish English boarding school by: reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which gave him his first sense of America as a more "exciting place where all sorts of weird things could happen," and Jules Verne's comic science-fiction descriptions of "more crazy Americans" bound for the moon. Archive 2009-04-01
The company's 10 workers escaped without injury, but part of the works roof and machinery is badly damaged.
I am still shaken up and get very upset when I think about what I've been through, I have heart palpitations," said Miss Capuana, who escaped the sinking vessel along with her fiancé, her brother and his girlfriend. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
They escaped with minor injuries but the van was a write-off.
Mr Robarts escaped to the Dragon of Wantly, partly because he had had enough of the matutinal Mrs Proudie, and partly also in order that he might hurry his friends there. Framley Parsonage
The burglars escaped before the police showed up
Hardly anyone in the town escaped the slaughter when the rebels were defeated.
A demolition worker escaped unhurt when several tonnes of rubble fell on the digger he was driving today.
A strangled scream escaped my throat as the great white shark ripped the protective cage to pieces, as if it was made of matchwood…
He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorial powers even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience; into all conduct which had given scandal; into all actions which, though they escaped the law, might appear contrary to good morals. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
In the case of the bird-watcher abduction, the Filipino guide, Ivan Sarenas, escaped by leaping over the side of the boat in which they were being carried after securing the approval of the others, Swiss national Lorenzo Vinciguerra and Dutchman Ewold Horn. Philippine Strike Kills 3 Terrorists
It hasn't escaped our notice that the hospital has come out of all the proposed changes really quite nicely.
They escaped the blaze but were rushed to hospital suffering from shock.
I hear that our married neighbor has escaped to her lover.
Only one girl had escaped the powerful net of her authority in her fifty year career, and that had been well nigh twenty years ago.
But there in lay their weaknesses also. Banks soon started to favour business that was profitable (ie, risky) but which, under Basel 1's crude definitions, escaped the appropriate capital charges.
The prisoner slipped past the guards on the gate and escaped.
We've escaped and become tourists ourselves - though admittedly in much nicer vans. Times, Sunday Times
I could hear the gurgle and hiss as gases escaped the bloating bodies. Fire The Sky
A handful escaped across the shark-infested waters on makeshift rafts. Times, Sunday Times
A giggle escaped Anna at the look of indignation on Kate's face and the sheepish grin on Ben's. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
We escaped to our summer house for a few days
Mr Madhi escaped from Iran in February 2008 after being sentenced to 73 years in jail for what he described as a trivial charge. Latest Articles
Brewer escaped from prison last year and has been on the loose ever since.
Elzevir Terence, printed in red letters, and a curious Birman book, whose pages consisted of thin leaves of ivory, gilded at the edges; and here too were black rhyta from Chiusi, and a cylix from Vulci, and one of those quaint Peruvian jars, which was so constructed that, when filled with water, the air escaped in sounds that resembled that of the song or cry of the animal represented on the vase or jar. St. Elmo
It can hardly have escaped your notice that the satellite television revolution is now well and truly upon us.
She narrowly escaped getting drenched by a couple of sprinklers.
The thieves escaped with three Chinese Shar-Pei pups aged six weeks and a five month old American bulldog.
THE Earth narrowly escaped a cosmic disaster yesterday when an asteroid the size of a bungalow flew past. The Sun
He escaped to England, was posted to the Royal Horse Artillery, served in Gallipoli, France, and Italy, and was decorated with the Military Cross and a Bar. Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond
Twenty of the crew escaped on three small boats. Times, Sunday Times
The family that lives there escaped unharmed. Times, Sunday Times
None of that will have escaped the acute political antennae of the member for Airdrie and Shotts, John Reid, the home secretary.
The Iraqi insurgents then let all the prisoners out of jail and escaped, and the U.S. had to come in and -- U.S. forces had to come in and reseize that jail -- Lou. CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2004
I applaud his swift-footed move: Like the toreador who dodged the bull at the last milisecond, he escaped being gored.
She is not expecting Dysart until the day has well grown into its afternoon; but, book in hand, she has escaped from all possible visitors to spend a quiet hour in the old earwiggy shanty at the end of the garden, sure of finding herself safe there from interruptions. April's Lady A Novel
A British tourist told how he and his girlfriend were hit by the lorry but escaped, shaken and with bruises. Times, Sunday Times
The escaped prisoner was nowhere in sight.
But he had other things in mind - plans that had been consuming his soul since he had escaped from La Fortaleza, the once impregnable fortress that had fallen a little over a year ago.
The driver of their vehicle escaped from the scene and is now the subject of a police manhunt.
But here's the clincher: It seems to have completely escaped the European politicians prattling about issues like animal welfare, biodiversity and ethics that cloning technology of one sort or another is already widely applied to a variety of foods that Europeans and American have consumed routinely and uncontroversially for years. The Cloned Cow Has Left the Barn
Three accomplices escaped and police fear they may try the same scam again.
Anselmo remained amazed, and almost besides himself, hearing his friend Lothario so unexpectedly to acquaint him with those things in a time wherein he least expected them; for now he esteemed Camilla to have escaped victress from the forged assaults of Lothario, and did himself triumph for glory of her victory. The Fourth Book. VII. Wherein Is Prosecuted the History of the Curious-Impertinent
She was sure that this man would have thrown her in jail had she not escaped from his cart.
Angel Coro, an escaped mental patient with a long criminal record, was arrested.
The swarms that followed the first crusade were destroyed in Anatolia by famine, pestilence, and the Turkish arrows; and the princes only escaped with some squadrons of horse to accomplish their lamentable pilgrimage. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
He had put in for fresh water, and to refit, at the place where I first escaped; and, having discovered my companions at the small island of their retreat, sent a periagua full of men to take them. Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.
When metals were calcined, the terra pinguis escaped, leaving behind a metallic calx (what we today call an oxide).
Irish computer users have so far escaped the latest virus spreading over the internet.
A weary sigh escaped him.
No Broadway or Hollywood actor, singer, or dancer worth watching escaped his pen.
Sverdlovsk now called Ekaterinburg was one place stuff was manufactured. powerful stuff escaped from there. Obama and defense expert Gates: on being “comfortable” with the nuclear posture
French had just succeeded in taking across the last piece of artillery, a long "culverin" [1] (cannon), named _Madame de Forli_, [2] which had been re-taken from the Spaniards at Ravenna, was so heavy that it sank the first boat, and the poor soldiers, seeing they were lost, escaped as best they could, but many were killed and others drowned. Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach
Shakily, Adam rose to his feet while the dog fixed him with a baleful glare and a low threatening rumble escaped its throat. LOST SUMMER
Thugs escaped with thousands of pounds after raiding the Harpurhey Post Office and supermarket on Rochdale Road with a meat cleaver.
Three women escaped from prison and sought to hide in the hayloft of a local farmer's barn.
Wisps of her fringe had escaped the loose ponytail and were now curling around her oval face.
A low moan of despair escaped her as she realized what had gone wrong.
Now, as the form team, they have escaped the noose and taken on the role of executioner. Times, Sunday Times
By the time he emerges from school and the armed forces, the ordinary young adult cannot have escaped becoming the subject of at least a dozen personal information files.
The aircraft left the runway but its 188 passengers escaped unharmed. Times, Sunday Times
The occupants escaped without serious injury after being woken by the alarm.
Now, as the form team, they have escaped the noose and taken on the role of executioner. Times, Sunday Times
She did not speak this thought aloud; but it haunted her; and, as the evening wore eventlessly away, the question escaped her in spite of herself: “Can you have offended them? Ultima Thule
However, at the same inquiry, trainer Gordon Richards escaped punishment.
And it was Spanish surgeons who performed the first transplant of a windpipe manufactured from a patient's own stem cells, which meant that the recipient, Claudia Castillo, 30, escaped a lifetime of immunosuppressant drugs. Spain's family bonds lie at the heart and soul of great healthcare
Despite my best efforts, a snort of laughter escaped me.

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