- present participle of escape.
escaping
Example Sentences
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The song is about escaping a New York winter: “Gonna sail away / Sun lights another day / Freedom on my mind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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
One major obstacle was that a single spacecraft could not observe the undisturbed solar wind upstream of Mars while also measuring atmospheric ions escaping closer to the planet.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Thousands of people, many of them elderly, were escaping the heat in evacuation shelters.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
He makes a mock terrified face and takes a few running steps, as if he is escaping something.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
