Sentence examples for scramble for safety from inspiring English sources

The congestion beneath, in a desperate scramble for safety, is threatening to engulf them.

Shortly after 11 a.m. in the morning Confederates poured through the resulting gap in such numbers that Rosecrans was seen crossing himself like a good Catholic before joining his soldiers in a panicked scramble for safety.

GENEVA — Syria's conflict is now driving 5,000 people out of the country each day in an increasingly desperate scramble for safety, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday as it reported a surge in their numbers to nearly 800,000.

A scramble for safety pushed the yield on three-month Treasury bills to its lowest since daily records began in 1954 the year President Eisenhower introduced the world to domino theory.Aptly enough, the crisis is spreading from one region to the next.

The astronauts scramble for safety, realizing that their vehicle is damaged beyond repair and the rest of their crew is dead.

Watching what's happening to our democracy is like watching the cruise ship Costa Concordia founder and sink slowly into the sea off the coast of Italy, as the passengers, shorn of life vests, scramble for safety as best they can, while the captain trips and falls conveniently into a waiting life boat.

People scrambled for safety, he said.

The sword fights have a riotous mayhem that sends mothers and children scrambling for safety.

Witnesses described throngs of people running and yelling as they scrambled for safety.

Scrambling for safety, I ordered us to duck into a building, pausing to marvel at the detail of the architecture.

The workers, almost all of them women, mistook the machines' vibrations for an aftershock and scrambled for safety outside under the locust trees.