'to escape something' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the action of fleeing from a threatening or unpleasant situation. For example, "The family had no choice but to escape their poverty stricken homeland."
"They aren't trying to escape something, like the girls in China," he told me.
(Is there any chance I'm dreaming I'm typing this now?) A number of readers reported that awful thing where you're trying to escape something, physically, and you can't get going.
Mr. Jiménez, who is dancing with more crispness and upper-body elegance than seen in recent Noche Flamenca New York seasons, delivers a compelling "Caminando" solo in which he seems haunted, as much trying to escape something as to express it.
And that's a blessing not just for parishioners but for the many innocent priests who heed their calling for all the holiest and most altruistic reasons, who pledge celibacy not because they're trying to escape something but because they're embracing a kind of service to their god and to their parishioners that they believe is rendered best without other obligations, loyalties, tugs.
"The answers to many of our questions often produced the same answer - that for some children running away was the only solution to escape something they couldn't cope with".
If you're running toward something to escape something else: slow down.
If so, it seems possible to characterize mesolimbic dopamine function parsimoniously in a unitary way, as a response to behavioral opportunity or challenge (abstracting from whether the opportunity is to gain something pleasant or good or to avoid or escape something painful or bad).
And we do drugs because it's an effective way to feel good or escape something.
Yet even South Dakota cannot escape something close to partisanship.
I use my great height to give some lad a leg-up so he can escape, something like that.
I use my great height to give some guy a leg-up so he can escape, something like that.
