Sentence examples for escalate like from inspiring English sources

Violence does not stop violence, instead it causes it to escalate like a wildfire burning out of control.

This escalates, like her fight with Tyrion; this fight, too, results in a death threat.

Rocker's remarks escalated like some new strain of virus let loose outside the laboratory of his own mind.

If someone had been there to calm down the fight when it first started, "It wouldn't have escalated like that," Washington said.

A friend of mine had a similar experience when her brother demanded to go through her Instagram and when she refused it escalated like crazy".

The report said this problem enables diseases once under control to escalate -- like malaria has in Azerbaijan and Tajikistan.

It's possible, then, that in the event of a Le Pen win, attacks against minorities could continue to escalate, much like they did in the US and UK in the wake of Trump and Brexit.

Prof Graham MacGregor, chair of Action on Sugar and co-author of the paper on reducing the amount of sugar in soft drinks and fruit juices, said: "It should be an escalating tax, like alcohol, like cigarettes, and increase according to how the industry responds".

In Bordeaux there were no problems [for Wales's opener] but you are aware that someone can do something stupid and that can escalate where as we like to see patrolling and low-level intervention to prevent such escalation.

Then things went south fast, escalating perilously like the plot of an action movie, or "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" in previews.

A rapidly escalating emergency like this requires a massive, urgent and global response.