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The fragrant flower scape — which resembles a big, flattened pink pine cone — lasts for as long as six months.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Thinly slice the scapes into discs by holding the scape perpendicular to your knife.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023
Two performers led the charge, wheeling a painted banner bearing the name Jovens do Prenda set against a desert scape.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
That trait spent the afternoon surmounting an unusual hell scape of obstacles.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022
Leaflets 3, obovate-wedge-form, sharply toothed, obscurely 3-lobed, scape 1-flowered.—Bogs, abundant northward, extending south to Maryland along the mountains, and west to Iowa.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
In the driver’s seat, I turned on the windshield wipers, and three arms scaped dust from the outside glass.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
Why, is any of them scaped and gone?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew
They had scaped from the Spanish servise in Flanders with Syr William Stanley.
From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John
—Nay, sir, you must tarry, Though he be scaped; and answer by the ears, sir.
From The Alchemist by Jonson, Ben
Him followed his next mate; Both glorying to have scaped the Stygian flood As gods, and by their own recovered strength, Not by the sufferance of supernal Power.
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
As her body was lowered into the ground, men surrounded the grave, scaping the sand and dirt over it with their hands and placing a rough headstone.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2022
If the pallets embraced 4 teeth, the angle would be 84°; or in case of a 16 tooth wheel scaping over three teeth, the angle would be 360 × 2.5⁄16 = 56¼°.
From An Analysis of the Lever Escapement by Playtner, H. R.
