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way-out

How to use way-out in a sentence

There was no one to help and no one to care, and the best way out of the business was by death.

“Yes; it is the best way out of her troubles; she begins to see that,” he said, with a strange smile.

CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU

"And it is difficult to find the way out now, for all the doors are locked," laughed another loudly.

The fingers of his right hand constricted on Burkey's throat until the man's eyes crawled a little way out of their sockets.

But to-day the brooding trouble came, and I was at my wits ends for a way out.

Ah, twenty years ago, Jacob Worse would have found some way out in such a case, I am sure.

SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND

So that if any possible way out existed, he had best set about finding it at once.

His father's home was a little way out of the village, and the boy was brought up at the mas, amid farm-hands and shepherds.

FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNER

She understood that Miss Hatchard had no help to give her and that she would have to fight her way out of her difficulty alone.

SUMMEREDITH WHARTON

Now, the Yankee cruiser must stay a good way out, for the water's not deep enough to let her in.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985