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- verb Present participle of
escape .
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Examples
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A hooded informant who succeeded in escaping from the estate (in the background) takes the Brazilian Federal Police to a site where workers are kept imprisoned.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery 2009
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He reminded me of a movie star Bernie didnt like, the name escaping me at the moment, but that wasnt the important thing.
Dog on It Spencer Quinn 2009
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He reminded me of a movie star Bernie didnt like, the name escaping me at the moment, but that wasnt the important thing.
Dog on It Spencer Quinn 2009
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He reminded me of a movie star Bernie didnt like, the name escaping me at the moment, but that wasnt the important thing.
Dog on It Spencer Quinn 2009
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Lovelace, who had succeeded in escaping from the Belmanoir claws, hurried in search of Lavinia.
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"Then allow me to cut off the tip of your nose," was the reply, and now Theresa succeeded in escaping from the arms that held her.
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[301 Errors of their Commanders.] only slightly hurt succeeded in escaping from the heaps of dead, wounded, and dying that were hurled over them.
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To add to all my perplexities, two years after my poor child's death, my wife, whose vagaries of temper and wayward follies I had borne with for twelve years, wanted to leave me, and absolutely made attempts at what she called escaping from my tyranny.
Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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I knew this kind of tunnel from a drug-smuggling case we’d worked once in a border town, the name escaping me and no time to remember it now.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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Still, he moved in a way that was kind of familiar, stiff and long-legged, like one of those birds that can’t fly, their name escaping me at the moment.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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