How to Use escapee in a Sentence

escapee

noun
Definition of escapeenext
  • So, that takes care of one set of inmates — how about the escapees?
    — refinery29.com, 29 June 2018
  • The area is over 20 miles north of the search zone that officials set up to squeeze the prison escapee.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Jail records show that three of the escapees are in custody in Bibb County.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • One of the escapees is Joey Fournier, 52, who is accused of murder.
    — Macie Goldfarb, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Police have said the escapees boarded the boat while it was docked in the St. George area of Grenada.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Many were in mass graves that had been described by escapees.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 16 June 2017
  • One of the escapees killed himself as police closed in.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • As a child, an escapee knocked on our door one night, asking to use the telephone.
    — Elise Jordan, Time, 31 Mar. 2018
  • In fact, most of them were trying to re-secure the gates after the escapees took off.
    — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Bibb County Sheriff said that three of the four escapees have been caught.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But in the end, the Judge isn’t convinced that any of these Bad Place escapees deserve a second chance.
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Bivens had said earlier in the search that whether the escapee had help was unknown.
    — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The residents had caught the escapees trying to steal a car from a home south of Nashville.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 16 June 2017
  • The 34-year-old escapee made a brazen move Monday night, police said.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Four people have been charged with helping the escapees.
    — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • At night floodlights shine in to expose any would-be escapees.
    — Spencer Case, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Brawley got him to confess where to find the body of a 16-year-old girl the escapees had killed, along with her family.
    — Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, azcentral, 13 June 2018
  • The women’s owner, Stephen Nuckolls, set out with a mob to capture the escapees.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The lucky escapees are the ones who can move legally to Europe or America.
    — Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Some set up radio stations in which escapees from North Korea talk about their lives in the South.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Viewers are then revealed the identity of the car in question's driver: a clone of the escapee.
    — Abby Jones, Billboard, 18 May 2018
  • One of the escapees killed himself before police could get him.
    — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • The dog left a minor bite wound on the escapee’s scalp, authorities said.
    — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The escapee is considered armed and dangerous and might have a beard.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • That was the day cop-killing prison escapee Mario Centobie was captured near Biloxi.
    — al.com, 4 July 2019
  • The priest takes his anger out on Teonna's cousin, who confesses the escapee is headed home.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
  • After a week, the escapees were deep inside the Rudnitsky Woods.
    — Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Choose fun interactive backdrops like the Toontown jail to bring out the inner escapee in even the shyest of us.
    — Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The fourth escapee was Jamarcus Cyprian, 20, of Amity, La., the office said.
    — Brian Dakss, CBS News, 27 May 2024
  • Anyone with information about the escapees has been asked to contact the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 28 May 2024

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