Below you will find example sentences with "narrowly escaped". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Narrowly Escaped in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: escaped
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "narrowly escaped" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 25.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as abu kuwaik narrowly escaped death, aides recently narrowly escaped an aircraft, death, two and governor stand out.
Example types with narrowly escaped
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Fortunately, the businessman narrowly escaped the incident. (7 words)
Two weeks into the war, Omar and Abu Kuwaik narrowly escaped death. (12 words)
The victors narrowly escaped defeat on the final play, which technically happened twice. (13 words)
She’s attempting to track down a baby who narrowly escaped the clutches of the sinister Alperton Angels cult almost two decades ago, and is now about to turn 18. But Amanda is not the only one on the trail. (40 words)
An eye witness and an indigene of the village, Malam Musa Ibrahim, who narrowly escaped from being killed, said over the phone, that the bandits arrived the village on the early hours of Tuesday on motorbikes, carrying AK 47 rifles. (40 words)
When the charges dropped, the England international narrowly escaped a ban – despite this being his third citation within the period, he can take the $3000 early guilty plea and avoid two matches on the sidelines. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
A Penrith man with 25 years of alcohol-fuelled offending has narrowly escaped going to jail after assaulting and threatening an Illawarra woman.
Ariel Ein-Gal, who narrowly escaped the Hamas attack in Israel, speaks about his experience near the site of Paul Kessler’s death a week ago in Thousand Oaks, CA.
More than 20 villagers at Umuokpu Abajah community in Nwangele local government area of Imo state narrowly escaped death when a vehicle loaded with petroleum products went up in flames.
Rodvelt took a play right from the Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indy narrowly escaped death from a giant rolling ball.
She’s attempting to track down a baby who narrowly escaped the clutches of the sinister Alperton Angels cult almost two decades ago, and is now about to turn 18. But Amanda is not the only one on the trail.
Spokesperson to the Osun State Governor, Olawale Rasheed on Sunday confirmed that Governor Ademola Adeleke and some of his aides recently narrowly escaped an aircraft crash.
When the charges dropped, the England international narrowly escaped a ban – despite this being his third citation within the period, he can take the $3000 early guilty plea and avoid two matches on the sidelines.
A driver was shocked to discover he narrowly escaped near-certain tragedy, crossing over the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, mere minutes before its devastating collapse.
A lucky hyena narrowly escaped being eaten by an angry hippo – that it mistook for being dead.
But the local man narrowly escaped death, as if the femoral artery is cut, a person could bleed out and die within two and five minutes.
Fortunately, the businessman narrowly escaped the incident.
One individual narrowly escaped injury thanks to their ammunition pouch – the documents also contained a photograph of a torn shirt.
On July 13, Trump, the Republican candidate in the Nov. 5 presidential election, narrowly escaped being shot in the head in Butler, Pennsylvania, by a bullet that grazed his ear.
Patrick McKee narrowly escaped such an encounter as a boy, which left him with lasting scars throughout his adulthood.
PC Sally Nicol also saved the life of her colleague – and narrowly escaped with her own – after being caught in a series of avalanche-like mudslides on a country road during Storm Babet.
The victors narrowly escaped defeat on the final play, which technically happened twice.
Two weeks into the war, Omar and Abu Kuwaik narrowly escaped death.
An eye witness and an indigene of the village, Malam Musa Ibrahim, who narrowly escaped from being killed, said over the phone, that the bandits arrived the village on the early hours of Tuesday on motorbikes, carrying AK 47 rifles.
Governor Samuel Ortom has disclosed that he narrowly escaped death when suspected armed herdsmen shot at him in his farm at Adeke along Makurdi-Naka road.
He narrowly escaped those charges in December 2019, when a 5-day trial ended with the court dismissing the charges due to prosecutorial technicalities before the jury ever reached a verdict.