Sentence examples for a fortunate escape from inspiring English sources

Young took this and saw his delivery ricochet off Carson's right post in a fortunate escape for Derby.

In her case, it proved a fortunate escape, for she could have been sidelined there for crucial years.

The composer's German career effectively ended, although not until 1944 was he allowed to leave Germany with his family — for his wife, a fortunate escape.

That said, I had a fortunate escape, and in future would probably steer clear of travelling overland to nations wracked by conflict and violent crime.

The leading Nazi critic Fritz Stege denounced Leifs's "agonizingly narrow-minded intellectual world". The composer's German career effectively ended, although not until 1944 was he allowed to leave Germany with his family for his wife, a fortunate escape.

In a race that will also be remembered for spot checks on the bikes of competitors for hidden engines and the return to France of Armstrong to take part in a charity cycle, Froome's team-mate Geraint Thomas had a fortunate escape after being hit so hard another rider that he had to be rescued by spectators after plummeting off the road.

In the Book Review, Laura Miller called this novel "endlessly beguiling": "For Wright, America, past and present, is Wonderland, a place of marvels and horrors from which not even the fortunate escape with their heads".

At a minimum, those so engaged would not be getting killed while the economically and socially more fortunate escape.

DUJIANGYAN, China — The children who were considered fortunate escaped with a broken bone or a severed limb.

Some have stories of fortunate escapes just before the buildings collapsed.

Seventh-seeded Nikolay Davydenko was more fortunate, escaping, like Federer, in five sets against Kevin Anderson of South Africa.