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narrow escape

NOUN
  1. something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin

How To Use narrow escape In A Sentence

  • Her 18-month old baby had a narrow escape when an attic ceiling collapsed close to her cot.
  • As in cyberfantasy, there are side trips and narrow escapes and dwarfish types with helpful tips, and if Time book critic Grossman weren't so smooth and dry, one might think about hitting esc. Codex by Lev Grossman: Book summary
  • Sanderson once had a narrow escape from death while on the back of a tame elephant inside a keddah, attempting to secure a wild female. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
  • All these experiences of successes and failures and precarious living and narrow escapes have made me an undiscouraged old soldier. The Last Empress
  • A family of four from Pewsey has spoken of its narrow escape from the flooding disaster that devastated the Cornish village of Boscastle.
  • I had already been warned that I should never show surprise, so I merely expressed my sympathy, and said that though I had only been in the capital so short a time, I had already had a very narrow escape from stealing a clothesbrush, and that though I had resisted temptation so far, I was sadly afraid that if I saw any object of special interest that was neither too hot nor too heavy, I should have to put myself in the straightener's hands. Erewhon; or, Over the range
  • His narrow escape at Petit-Clamart finally convinced the General that it was time to take action to meet both dangers at once.
  • I felicitate myself on my narrow escape.
  • The only light relief is the story of a narrow escape from death.
  • The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster dates from the 6th century when one of Saint Columba's monks had a narrow escape from its jaws.
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