- present participle of escape.
escaping
Example Sentences
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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
That distance was too great for the instrument to detect gamma rays coming from the planet, but scientists believed it might still register neutrons escaping from the Martian surface and atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
People in towns and villages around Madrid have been relaying their experiences of escaping the fires, some with just the clothes they were wearing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Silver threaded the coils of hair escaping from my mother’s headscarf, and her face was more gaunt than I remembered it, but I recognized her in an instant.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
