avenue of escape

collocation in English

meaningsofavenueandescape

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avenue
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæv.ə.njuː/us
/ˈæv.ə.nuː/
a wide road with trees or tall buildings on both sides, or a wide country path or road with trees on ...
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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 ofavenueandescapefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He has opened up a possibleavenueofescapefor himself.
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Too many people are trying to seek that as anavenueofescape.
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There is, therefore, noavenueofescapealong that line.
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Let us not seal up everyavenueofescapeand condemn ourselves to a form of perpetual institutionalism.
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Without doubt, therefore, industry everywhere will be looking for anavenueofescape, and will want to find that, as far as it can, on the roads.
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However, if the car in question has been rammed in the rear by another car or goods vehicle, as often happens, thatavenueofescapeis barred as well.
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It is no longer the case, as it was before the war, that school teaching is anavenueofescapefor a working-class lad of parts.
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It is the one realavenueofescapefrom the ordinary drudgery of being an employed person which is open to him at the present moment.
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The accused must not have foregone some safeavenueofescape.
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The onlyavenueofescapefor it is by the fine glass siphon, and through this it rushes accordingly and discharges itself upon the paper.
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Then cut off his lines of communication andavenueofescape.
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This could be a serious omission, and could jeopardise the whole international plan to punish the hijacker and block his avenues of escape.
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For one reason or another, those avenues of escape are now cut off, and we have to solve the problem within our own industrial society.
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It gives him the maximum number of avenues of escape.
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The avenues of escape from this reservoir of suffering humanity are few and dangerous.
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After unsuccessfully trying several avenues of escape, she crawls through a pet door and ends up on her porch, a dead end.
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The prince had recklessly chosen a campsite in a wooded valley with steep sides and few avenues of escape.
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Other avenues of escape were similarly useless: side doors had been bolted shut to prevent people from entering without paying.
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