Sentence examples for had barely escaped from inspiring English sources
Doctors said he had barely escaped paralysis or even death.
John Kennedy himself had barely escaped death in battle.
The municipal government had barely escaped bankruptcy a few years earlier.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. John Kennedy himself had barely escaped death in battle.
His patron was sinking in the polls, and Rove himself had barely escaped criminal indictment.
She had seen terrible things, had been starved and beaten, and had barely escaped the gas chamber.
But it sprawls like an American gold-rush town and, as you walk along the beach to get away from the sunloungers, you have barely escaped the outskirts of Acharavi before you find yourself in Roda or Almyros.
It is one thing to feel optimism when seated in a comfortable home in a country not quite at war, but quite another to travel and sit with people who have barely escaped unspeakable darkness, and still feel that a difference, no matter how small, must and can be made.
For President Clinton to show up in Islamabad just months after a military coup, in a country that for years has barely escaped designation as a state supporter of terrorism and that has thumbed its nose at American nuclear nonproliferation policies for more than a decade, would put a lie to all the principles that have marked the Clinton administration's foreign policies.
Cable still has a bit to go before it has clawed back all of the losses it suffered this time last week, while the pound has barely escaped its 7 week lows against the euro....Today's rather dreary, pound-heavy trading is likely the template for the rest of the week, as there is nothing in the run-up to the election that can topple it from its dominant perch.
