Sentence examples for escaping on from inspiring English sources

The Mistress of Lilliput, Alison Fell (Anchor, £6.99) Buy it at BOL What is a wife to do when her husband ups for foreign parts, only to return speaking Houyhnhnm and with such a profound distaste for Yahoos that he retires to the stable before escaping on yet another voyage.

Freaked out and injured, both robbers took off with one escaping on foot and Damian chasing the other with a friggin' samurai sword.

But suddenly there was the bang of a handgun in broad daylight: one man was wounded, the other was escaping on foot, and a surprise was in store for the doctors in the emergency room.

Five of them pleaded guilty to escaping from custody on one occasion, and Mark Azzopardi pleaded guilty to escaping on two occasions.

Statewide, more than 30 percent of the department's chases ended with the driver escaping on foot.

Sometimes thieves escaping on foot would run into oncoming traffic (or into an innocent bystander).

"Are you sure one of the birds didn't escape on its own, ma'am?" he asked.

They escaped on their accord.

The family escaped on foot.

The third managed to escape on foot.

He then tried to escape on foot.