escaping
Example Sentences
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"I suffered from body dysmorphia for years because of that, believing that no matter how strong, thin or young I was, there was no escaping the dreaded cottage cheese thighs."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The most popular involves a hippo escaping from a traveling circus and finding its way to a nearby creek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
For the student escaping his work, the assignment should wait for him; acting out no longer gets him out of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Thousands of people, many of them elderly, were escaping the heat in evacuation shelters.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
A paper trail to a Chickasaw great-grandfather none of them had ever known was a path into a past she’d spent her whole life escaping.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
