[
US
/ˈɛskɔɹt, ɛˈskɔɹt/
]
NOUN
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
-
a participant in a date
his date never stopped talking
VERB
-
accompany as an escort
She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball -
accompany or escort
I'll see you to the door
How To Use escort In A Sentence
- There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
- On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
- The orchestrated escort and the accompanying police violence in clearing the picket reflected the involvement of city based police, the local constabulary having been cooperative with the workers.
- Nor were the escorts there to admonish me for asking a rude question of the partying faithful, or to protect the paying customers from the prying media.
- He arrived with a police escort shortly before half past nine.
- Once properly tagged and escorted, the visitor passes the initial checkpoint and walks along a corridor into the Headquarters Building lobby.
- We are required to have a police escort for the three mile trip from our terminal to the consignee.
- More than 200 people gathered outside his home on the outskirts of Bolton as a steam-powered cavalcade flanked by police motorcycle outriders escorted him on his final journey.
- An armed patrol boat will escort the shipment.
- The final programmes will engagingly escort us to the present day, via a coin defaced by Suffragettes, a plate from the Russian revolution, and a credit card, to the final object. A History of the World in 100 Objects is Radio 4 at its best
