Sentence examples for were escaped from inspiring English sources
verb
To get free, to free oneself.
- The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
He'd been coming to the island on holiday since he was a boy, and while we had to pass a cliff face studded with vipers' nests, in the early 90s there were escaped murderers to contend with.
The terrible consequences which were to be feared from the immediate passage of a train on the down line were escaped almost by a miracle, since the train passed at places within a few centimètres of the express.
Free blacks in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere had to be on guard against gangs of kidnappers who would seize free men and women, falsely claim they were escaped slaves and ship them south to be sold.
He said, 'If that money is not here by 2 o'clock, I'm going to start throwing a dead body out the door every minute after 2 o'clock.' I really thought that was an empty threat, but you can't be sure, and I didn't know two of them were escaped cons in for murder.
At the end of 100 time steps, only 66.6% of the agents were escaped.
It was higher in the upstream part of the watershed where the lands were escaped and barren, and in the downstream part of the watershed showing arable land without forest cover.
When you were escaping wherever you were escaping.
And we were escaping the middle class".
"People were escaping and getting shot.
