Sentence examples for avenue of escape from inspiring English sources

There would have been no avenue of escape.

They were both situated along the river, which offered an avenue of escape.

The ECHR has shut down that avenue of escape, at least in Europe.

The English took the island away from the Portuguese in 1815, on the ground that they felt obliged to shut off every avenue of escape to Napoleon.

One avenue of escape is in the form of five fish-shaped zeppelins tethered to a ladder, assuming that one could navigate the maze of menacing machines below.

Firefighters must stay alert to insure that such airborne incendiaries don't ignite fires at their backs, cutting off their avenue of escape.

The avenues of escape -- including marriage -- seemed to be closing off.

Hundreds just like her were swarming over Mercer Street, cutting off all avenues of escape.

The city offers so many avenues of escape that a thief who is not too greedy or trigger-happy has a good chance of melting into the crowd.

The suit charged that the police trapped protesters inside pens and blocked off "avenues of escape" while approaching on horseback, causing people to be knocked down.

Three-quarters of a century later, Western governments are still failing to provide safe, legal avenues of escape for people who face murder, arrest and torture at the hands of their own governments.