Sentence examples for stood to escape from inspiring English sources

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At the high window, where I've often stood to escape a nightmare, I meet the single, unblinking eye lighting the all-night sniffing and lifting and sifting for bodies, pieces of bodies, anything that is not nothing, in a search that always goes on somewhere, now in New York and Kabul.

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Witnesses said Al Masry supporters, armed with knives, sticks and stones, chased Al Ahly players and fans, who ran toward the exits and up the stands to escape while lines of riot police in the stadium largely did nothing to intervene.

As Rocha stood up to escape, Ryan grabbed a leg and worked toward a leg lock.

Ms. Hayes, who is pregnant, stood outside to escape the spray-paint fumes while her daughter, Danisia Peterson, 12, who likes to draw faces, chatted with Mr. Scharf inside and watched him work.

Foreign residents of the Park Residence, Britons and Eastern Europeans who managed to escape, stood on the street outside as the gunfire crackled, looking stunned.

As it was, only a gap in the Kop terrace fence adjacent to the stand allowed hundreds to escape.

I love how you played with words here, "...if I don't put my foot down, things are going to get lost," a possible reference to taking a stand about wanting to escape...maybe?

This handkerchief stands for her desire to escape poverty and to make something of her life.

Wyness' bawdy insult is worth recalling in the light of the news that once again the Old Firm stand accused of scheming to escape Scottish football — an odd accusation given the scheme has little to do with them.

"When I was a kid I used to do trapping in the back," he said, gesturing towards the back of the small, one-story house that stands elevated on stilts to escape the floods that roll in from the bayou after nearly every storm.

She can hardly stand Oklahoma, which she hopes to escape soon for the greener political pastures of Washington, D.C.

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