The phrase "aimed to escape" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's intention or goal to get away from a situation or place.
Example: "The prisoners planned a daring breakout, as they were aimed to escape from the high-security facility."
Alternatives: "intended to flee" or "sought to break free".
In the late 1990s the Bank of Japan aimed to escape its economic doldrums by promising to leave interest rates at zero "until deflationary concerns subside".
Tuesday's 1-1 drawithth Manchester City at St James' Park was not what either side wanted as they aimed to escape the bottom three and consolidate a top-four place respectively.
When they reinstalled Mr Rudd as leader, Labor power-brokers aimed to escape the electoral drubbing that opinion polls showed the government faced when Ms Gillard was prime minister.
He expanded that in leaving Holby, Ric aimed to escape "the politics and stresses in his own life", stating: "It's somewhere he can recharge himself by getting back to uncomplicated medicine.
A male aims to escape with his prize in as straight a line as possible (circling aimlessly invites robbery), and he is remarkably faithful to his vector.
Such investments are crucial for the millions of African smallholder farmers aiming to escape poverty and move from subsistence to scale.
By building and controlling its own satellite navigation apparatus Europe aims to escape its dependence on America's GPS to guide its cars, missiles, aircraft and ships.
The authors attribute this to the fact that in Russia internal migrants usually aim to escape from economically depressed areas, and positive effects of these changes overcome negative effects coming from the disruption of their childbearing careers.
As the number of camera-toting paparazzi and celebrity-focused media outlets rises, so has the number of famous folks aiming to escape the spotlight.
What Chesney delivers is an emotional road trip on which he alternately aims to escape the pain and then look for a few answers, and with any luck find a little solace.
However, individuals with emotional difficulties often aim to escape situations that they interpret as threatening or undesirable, and by doing so, serve to maintain the contingency linking the negative emotion to the situation (Trosper et al., 2009).
