Sentence examples for longed to escape from inspiring English sources
Mr No longed to escape to America.
The waning men longed to escape from the spell cast over them by time.
For centuries, Ilha Grande was full of people who longed to escape.
Each girl longed to escape family turmoil by creating what she imagined would be a stable romance.
In Kazan's view, others were giving fine performances but Brando was "living onstage" — with the result that he longed to escape the play after only a few weeks.
Longing to escape the elite world at Columbia, he spent Saturdays taking underprivileged teenagers around New York City.
A casualty of the shrinking music business, Pete once worked for Sony and is now spinning his wheels in a retail environment he longs to escape.
Overly sensitive and disdainful of her tough life, Lilly Ms. Woodd) longs to escape the grim cabin she shares with her mother, Maggie (Ms. Blanchett), a healer, and little sister, Dot Jenna BoydDot Jenna Boyd
Liu Xiaobo dedicates "Longing to Escape" to his wife, writing of his devotion to her that, "I long to lie at your feet, besides/ being tied to death this is/ my one duty".
A wistful, frightened creature embarrassed by her own china-doll fragility, she longs to escape a life that feels all wrong but has little notion of where to go or what to do.
