Sentence examples for the getaway from from inspiring English sources

We first meet Becky and Harry in a speeding car driven by Leon, Harry's sidekick, on the getaway from a heist.

Released in the fall of 1975, and appearing this month as a limited edition Blu-ray from Twilight Time, "Hard Times" was the first film directed by Walter Hill, who was then making a name for himself as an author of unusually literate screenplays (among them the scripts that became "The Getaway," from Sam Peckinpah, and "The Mackintosh Man," from John Huston).

The chill rooftop hangout was the perfect getaway from all the madness that filled the streets the below.

The ultimate getaway-from-it-all excursion to Tobago should include a drive around the island.

Consider the rainbow of hues that turn up in this book's short prologue, which describes the breathless getaway from the heist.

Detectives on Tuesday morning picked up one of the friends — a Queens man identified as Anthony Manco, 29 — as he was driving in the Rockaways in what the police characterized as the getaway car from Monday's shooting.

"There are two new witnesses, one of which admits to being the getaway driver from the shooting," Koss said.

This is no major criticism, because it's far from slouchy, but you wouldn't want to find yourself in a getaway-from-the-lights scenario with some snarling youth in a GTi.

"Welcome to a getaway from the getaway," the clerk announced when I arrived.

But for a getaway from the getaway, stay in the more modest Farmhouse Inn at Robinson Farm, where your morning omelet is made with eggs fresh from hens out back and your room is country chic.

In the movies, his characters escaped the cops (The Getaway, 1972), escaped from a French penal colony (Papillon, 1973) and tried to escape from Nazis by jumping a barbed-wire fence on a motorcycle (The Great Escape, 1963).