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scape

[skeyp] / skeɪp /




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Thinly slice the scapes into discs by holding the scape perpendicular to your knife.

From Salon Apr. 2, 2023

Explore an immersive experience featuring large-scale animal and nature scape lanterns representing wild places from around the globe 4-9 p.m. at Woodland Park Zoo.

From Seattle Times Nov. 19, 2022

That endless yet claustrophobic snow scape, the anxious narcissism of William H. Macy’s scheming car salesman, the glory of Frances McDormand’s pregnant police chief Marge.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2022

That trait spent the afternoon surmounting an unusual hell scape of obstacles.

From Washington Post Jul. 10, 2022

Fertile flower solitary on a very long scape.

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 Asa Gray

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 William Carew Hazlitt

Who is he to whom Love e'er stinted spite * And who scaped his      springes and easy sleight; Who free from Love lived in life's delight?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Verily verily I say unto you: He that heareth my words, And believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into damnation: but is scaped from death unto life.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

How do you, masters, how do you? how have you scaped hanging this long time?

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

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 H. R. Playtner




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