"escaping captivity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in a sentence to describe a situation in which someone is attempting to leave an enclosed space or situation that they were held in against their will. For example, "The prisoners had almost made it, but they were stopped just short of escaping captivity."
This week on newyorker.com, Mark Singer writes about the photojournalist James Foley's choice to return to a war zone after escaping captivity.
Mark Singer writes about the photojournalist James Foley's return to a war zone after escaping captivity in Libya — for reasons that were modest, but not small.
This week on newyorker.com, Mark Singer writes about the photojournalist James Foley's choice to return to a war zone after escaping captivity, while other writers explore the science behind sleep deprivation and the literature of Alzheimer's disease.
By Patricia Lee August 24, 2014 This week on newyorker.com, Mark Singer writes about the photojournalist James Foley's choice to return to a war zone after escaping captivity, while other writers explore the science behind sleep deprivation and the literature of Alzheimer's disease.
Although devils can bite through metal traps, they tend to reserve their strong jaws for escaping captivity rather than breaking into food storage.
The 2007 film The Last Legion, and the novel on which it is based, includes a heavily fictionalized account of the reign and subsequent life of Romulus Augustus; escaping captivity with the aid of a small band of loyal Romans, he reaches Britain, where he eventually becomes Uther Pendragon.
The former captives Rovera spoke with are among more than 200 that Amnesty says escaped captivity by various means.
Thanks to McKenna, some B. caapi cuttings "escaped captivity," he told me.
(She escapes captivity by metaphysically entering the text of the washing-instruction label on Thursday's trousers).
Having escaped captivity in a small dusty village, he has found himself in a much worse prison — a foul and chaotic place run by sick, irrational children.
At the end of the last film, the apes escaped captivity, rampaged along the Golden Gate Bridge and headed up into the hills.
