How To Use Narrow escape In A Sentence
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Her 18-month old baby had a narrow escape when an attic ceiling collapsed close to her cot.
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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
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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
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All these experiences of successes and failures and precarious living and narrow escapes have made me an undiscouraged old soldier.
The Last Empress
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A family of four from Pewsey has spoken of its narrow escape from the flooding disaster that devastated the Cornish village of Boscastle.
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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
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His narrow escape at Petit-Clamart finally convinced the General that it was time to take action to meet both dangers at once.
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I felicitate myself on my narrow escape.
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The only light relief is the story of a narrow escape from death.
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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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He had a narrow escape when his car skidded on the ice.
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that was a narrow escape
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A Kirkby Lonsdale woman had a narrow escape when lightning struck the shop she was working in as a violent thunderstorm engulfed the town.
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He had a narrow escape from gunfire.
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In York, one family had a narrow escape when a tree fell on their car.
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A Cranmore woman had a narrow escape when a bullet smashed through the front window of her car during last weekend's shooting.
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We got out in time but it was a narrow escape.
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Last year, Kevin had a narrow escape when a stunt went horribly wrong.
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It was a very narrow escape and we are lucky to be alive.
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He was shaken by his narrow escape from death.
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When a rapid thaw set in, many people had narrow escapes when melting snow slid off roofs on to pavements in small avalanches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two police officers had a narrow escape when separatists attacked their vehicles.
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An elderly couple had a narrow escape from an arson attack that would have ‘undoubtedly’ killed them.
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No serious injuries were reported but the car driver had a narrow escape.
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I felicitate myself on my narrow escape.
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The implication reminded Smollett of a narrow escape from a duello at Ghent in 1749 with a Frenchman.
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Motorists had a narrow escape when a lorry carrying heavy scrap metal crashed into a bridge, shedding its load.
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It was a very narrow escape and we are lucky to be alive.
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A dream holiday in the Caribbean turned into a narrow escape for a pair of friends from Trowbridge as they found themselves in the path of a hurricane.
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On March 10, the Evening Press reported that four householders in the village had a narrow escape when a car skidded off the road and ploughed into two houses.
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It was a very narrow escape and we are lucky to be alive.
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Residents in a block of flats in Epsom had a narrow escape on Valentine's Day when a fire in a basement flat threatened to engulf the three-storey block.
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We got out in time but it was a narrow escape.
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In Tadcaster, a man had a narrow escape early today when he hit a wall of flood water on the B1223, near Ulleskelf, and aquaplaned across a road into a ditch.
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We opted for the bottled water and thanked our lucky stars for our narrow escape.
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You were lucky to have a narrow escape.
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He is a veteran of numerous firefights and narrow escapes who has shown notable serenity throughout the siege.
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A lawyer and his family who had a narrow escape in the tsunami disaster are working in two hospitals to help the injured survivors.
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William E. Dodge had the courage to face the wrought-up Chief Magistrate, chafed with his narrow escape from the assassins of the railroad journey from
The Lincoln Story Book
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I hear you had a very narrow escape on the bridge.
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Whatever were occasionally the triumphs of this daring cateran, they were often exchanged for reverses; and his narrow escapes, rapid flights, and the ingenious stratagems with which he extricated himself from imminent danger, were no less remembered and admired than the exploits in which he had been successful.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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He had a narrow escape when his car skidded on the ice.
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He went hunting cattle, and got himself "bushed," or marooned -- that is, lost -- and had a narrow escape from dying in the woods.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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A lorry driver and his colleague had a narrow escape when a brick hurled by youths struck just centimetres from the windscreen.
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We all need to make the most of such narrow escapes.
Times, Sunday Times
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His father asked him how he was a dozen times a day; his mother talked continually of "that dear boy's narrow escape"; and grandma cockered him up with every delicacy she could invent; and the girls waited on him like devoted slaves.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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Will Grant have another lucky narrow escape?
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Two police officers had a narrow escape when separatists attacked their vehicles.
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I hear you had a very narrow escape on the bridge.
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A local man had a narrow escape from serious injury when the tractor he was driving was in collision with a lorry at Boggan Hill on Tuesday March 26.
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He was shaken by his narrow escape from death.
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There follows a succession of adventures, dangers, narrow escapes from death, and general blows of malign Fate.
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The hours of liberty are long, full of wonder and narrow escapes, precautions, hidden devices and daring.
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Usually this involves the agent's "escape" and subsequent return with a story of his "heroism" and narrow escape from the en.
POWs and Politics - Part 1
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A woman had a narrow escape yesterday when her car left the road.
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I had a narrow escape.
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An Ambleside man had a narrow escape after stumbling and sinking up to his armpits in a bog while walking on the Lake District fells, reports Paul Duncan.
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I felicitate myself on my narrow escape.
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The French missionaries had, in fact, a narrow escape of expulsion through the hostility of the Russian Government, which even proceeded to the length of extorting a firman from the late Shah prohibiting Christians from changing their religion.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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When a rapid thaw set in, many people had narrow escapes when melting snow slid off roofs on to pavements in small avalanches.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a very narrow escape and we are lucky to be alive.
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More recently he had a narrow escape when a motorist suddenly changed lanes and crossed right in front of him, forcing him to swerve to avoid a collision.
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Having had some narrow escapes the priest was eventually arrested as a recusant priest and was tried by revolutionary Court.
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a narrow escape
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Some who complained of being crushed were prodded with nightsticks, as other police contingents methodically closed off the rear of the march, leaving only narrow escape routes.
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I had a narrow escape from a meat cleaver, which landed in the bonnet of my car yards from my fingers and I suffered a fractured sternum when I was used as a punchball while trying to sort out a domestic dispute.
Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover
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He had a narrow escape from gunfire.
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I had a narrow escape.
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We all need to make the most of such narrow escapes.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- These unfortunate birds, cursed for all time by the commercially valuable "aigrette" plumes that they bear, have had a very narrow escape from total extinction in the United States, despite all the efforts made to save them.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation