Sentence examples for extraordinary escape from inspiring English sources

Almost a year after he was captured, fresh details have emerged of the extraordinary escape of a French hostage held in northern Nigeria by Islamist militants.

A prisoner who mounted an extraordinary escape from Peruvian jail by swapping places with his visiting twin brother has been recaptured.

A friend of Koussa's family shed a little more light on the extraordinary escape, and the anxiety that Koussa will now be feeling.

The approach was deemed logical because the escapees, who crawled to freedom down a 1,000ft tunnel, all left their shoes behind when they made the extraordinary escape on Monday.

The extraordinary escape was immediately dubbed the miracle on the Hudson, and hailed as a testimony to the ability of New York to cope with disaster in the wake of 9/11.

Ralston, who is now 35 and still with the wiry physique of a climber, has just attended the London premiere of 127 Hours, Danny Boyle's film about his extraordinary escape from certain death.

Moroccans often talk of his baraka, the blessing or good luck that comes from God. Indeed so: witness the king's extraordinary escapes from the coup attempts of 1971 and 1972.

Nevertheless, in an age when little in the way of the odd or extraordinary escapes the eye of television or the lens of cellphone cameras or immediate worldwide distribution, this lavish circus offers plenty to enjoy.

And if hair texture alone could condemn a foundling with ambiguous racial heritage to slavery, the accidents of physiognomy also allowed some extraordinary escapes: in 1848, with her black husband posing as a servant, Ellen Craft made the journey from bondage to freedom disguised as a white man.

That she survived the attempt on her life is one of the most extraordinary escapes in the country's drug war.

But many files remain closed indefinitely, subject to an extraordinary, sweeping escape clause.