"failed escape" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation in which a person or group attempted to escape from something/somewhere but were unsuccessful. For example: "The prisoners' failed escape was foiled by the guards."
He survived a failed escape attempt and was freed in April 1945.
"Scenes From Goethe's 'Faust' " is half man, half beast, a failed escape from the concert stage.
After repeatedly shifting stories, they ultimately said the detainees had suffocated from tear gas during a failed escape attempt.
There are the predictable failed escape attempts, a suicide and one boy's sexual abuse (not shown but alluded to).
Sifting through the MF Global's "break the glass" plan is a bit like retracing the failed escape route in a charred building.
An American prisoner was charged Wednesday with the murder of a Yemeni soldier and the wounding of another during a failed escape attempt.
Certainly prisoners have made fatal or failed escapes, and a number of people, including priests during the Spanish Civil War, have met their forced deaths by way of gravity.
Despite the inconveniences brought on by the weather, don't forget to see the beauty and uniquity around you. 7. If all else fails, escape to sunnier climes.
Just imagine that's a world, and Barb tried to escape and failed to escape, but Will was sneakier, so he was able to escape.
Injected cockroaches spent very little time spontaneously exploring a novel arena (0.1±0.2 min, as compared with 7.0±2.2 min in controls; p<0.001) and failed to escape tactile stimuli (escape distance: 1.5±0.6 cm, as compared with 27±8 cm in controls; p<0.001).
As Peter Thiel, PayPal's cerebral founder, put it in "Zero to One": "All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition".The result, in both cases, is an unparalleled concentration of power.
