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"Escapée" in a Sentence (19 examples)
These two men are described as monsters in human form, and the worst of the desperate escapées.
The other prisoner Joseph Wiltshire, alias Richards, alias Richardson, is believed to be one of seven French escapées who left Noumea about 1875 in a Government boat loaded with flour, and who arrived in the same year at Tin Can Bay, near Maryborough, Queensland.
The number of French people living in the Colony was in all probability somewhat understated, escapées and expirées from the penal settlement of New Caledonia, who added to the number of the French resident in New South Wales, giving false names and claiming as birthplaces countries other than their own.
The specimens shown were evidently escapées from cultivation.
France proposed to place convicts on the islands. This awoke Australia to the danger of escapées landing on her shores, and she strenuously opposed the efforts of France to obtain the islands.
She had several English-speaking escapées in her house one night when the German S.S. came to search.
The particular course that the escapées from tension take will depend upon an indefinable reciprocity of forces between the nature of the individual and what he sees in the world about him.
Is not the very fact that they continue to do business with Russia a better evidence of Russia’s keeping her contracts than the testimony of escapées and convicts and criminals and heated agitators?
These fish are partly stocked and partly escapées from fish farms.
I met others like him, like one veteran who had served his time in Vietnam, was finishing up his enlistment, and got assigned to the Brooklyn Navy Base Stockade as a ‘chaser,’ that is, someone who went after escapées.
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About 1953, the species was reported from the canal and lakes between Palavas and Perals (Herault) but the fish may have been escapées from nearby rearing ponds.
Honours: Knight of the Legion of Honour; War Cross, three citations; Medal for Escapées; Prisoner of War; Cross of Conflict; Norwegian Participation Medal.
Post-independence Ilmorog is no longer a communal whole, but a satellite of the global network of capitalism, as fragmented as the lives of its people and of escapées and recuperés like Munira, Abdullah, Wanja, and Karega.
After an Inquiry into the missing prisoner’s identity it was found that the escapée was none other than the notorious William Williams.
Once in a while, I peered in the mirror looking at the window behind me, somehow expecting to see a patrol scouring the neighbourhood, looking for the escapée.
They ran over the Sioux escapées with their horses, then beat them to death with their war clubs and tomahawks.[…]The rest of the support group gradually gathered around the relieved and celebrating escapées.
Sergio, the escapée from Chile, was performing in the town square.
Meantime, he had met a divorced woman, born in the UK, but whose family had arrived as East Asian escapées from Uganda during the 1970s.
Most escapées, indeed thousands, had headed for the main crossing points around Lake Neusiedl, or Lake Fertód as it was called in Hungarian, and Andau.[…]The border was continually patrolled by armed frontier guards and Soviet soldiers, now intent on arresting any likely escapées.
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