hope of escape

collocation in English

meaningsofhopeandescape

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withescape.
hope
noun[C or U]
uk
/həʊp/us
/hoʊp/
something good that you want to happen in the future, or a confident feeling about what will happen in ...
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escape
noun
uk
/ɪˈskeɪp/us
/ɪˈskeɪp/
the act of successfully getting out of a place or a dangerous or ...
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(Definition ofhopeandescapefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhope of escape

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Violence and corruption were elementary facts of human existence from which there was nohopeofescape.
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It is always thehopeofescapewhich counts.
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As long as it is imprisonment, there is thehopeofescapeor of release.
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This means that the prey has nohopeofescape.
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Their onlyhopeofescapeis a massive cash injection into house building, so that the proper type of houses can be built.
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People now think that their onlyhopeofescapeis a win on the lottery—whether it is £1,000 or the figure offered last weekend.
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These have been peneplained, and the onlyhopeofescapefor the scholar with an independent mind is down those valleys of despair and frustration.
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She then curses the player to regions beyond with nohopeofescape.
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After he was returned to the penitentiary in 1874, he saw nohopeofescape.
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Most sharecroppers were locked in a cycle of debt, from which the onlyhopeofescapewas increased planting.
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They would not have left their sons and brothers scattered widely through the province for harvest without arms, without anyhopeofescape.
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The prison is squalid, violent, and full of fear and the onlyhopeofescapefrom the nightmare is through the imagination.
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Some critics might even suggest that its use of psychological punishment, compounded with nohopeofescape, made it one of the worst.
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