Sentence examples for be a fire escape from inspiring English sources

In the early 1860s, the laws mandated that there be a fire escape on a building, that it have a strong, fireproof party wall.

It can be a fire escape dash (Pretty Woman), a dash to the end-of-season dance (Dirty Dancing), or to the Empire State Building (Sleepless in Seattle).

"A fire escape is a fire escape, and a brick building is a brick building.

But I live in Brooklyn, and all I have is a fire escape.

There was a fire escape on the back of the building, said the superintendent, Mr. Tulla, but not all the apartments had access to it.

According to the police, two burglaries happened in a building on Willow Street on Wednesday when the residents were at work, and both times the entry point was a fire escape window.

There is a fire escape to suggest a Lower East Side building, a 1912 trunk from the Ellis Island Museum, dishes from the Eldridge Street Synagogue, the original icebox from Gussie Kleinstein's Forsyth Street apartment and yahrzeit glasses with memorial candles inside.

Not included in the renovation is a fire escape, which would have permitted legal use of the now-vacant librarian's apartment on the third floor, with its Victorian wooden doors, stone fireplaces and traces of wall stenciling.

I wish the sukkah was still up, we just tore it down!" The porch, which one enters by climbing through a window, looks like its mother was a fire escape.

Props are kept to a minimum, meals are imagined and the most striking object on stage is a fire escape that corkscrews its way into the sky like the twisted horn on the unicorn in Laura's collection of glass animals.

There is a fire escape where there shouldn't be; there's no balcony.