only escape

collocation in English

meaningsofonlyandescape

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only
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈəʊn.li/us
/ˈoʊn.li/
used to show that there is a single one or very few of something, or that there are ...
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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 ofonlyandescapefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofonly escape

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My conclusion is inevitably that theonlyescapeis by agreement.
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This may indeed be an effective policy, since work offers notonlyescapefrom financial deprivation, but also companionship, improved self-esteem and relief from the relentlessness of childcare.
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But for alleles in the less fit classes of a hypodispersed population, recombination can help them notonlyescapeinto the best class, but create an even better ' best ' class.
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Hisonlyescapeis reading.
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For all too many people, the village shop is now theonlyescapefrom their well of loneliness.
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But this is theonlyescapefrom the present dilemma, until we see how the system works.
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Hisonlyescapefrom his dilemma appears to be his offer to others to share his dilemma.
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However, railway men have been driven into a corner from which theonlyescapewill be strike action.
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He saw this as hisonlyescape.
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Heronlyescapeis to go horse riding.
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Theonlyescapeis up the large tree.
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Theonlyescapeis to win the game.
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Theonlyescapefor him, however exorbitant the landlord's demands may be, is to show that he cannot possibly pay the rent.
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If you consider your neighbourhood school unsatisfactory, youronlyescapeis to move house to an area in which the school meets your wishes.
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Theironlyescapeis a one-person raft.
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If anything should go wrong—and the possible scenarios for disaster are legion—theonlyescaperoute is provided by two roads which converge at a single roundabout.
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He tries in some way to escape the onerous and irksome obligation into which he has entered and finds he canonlyescapeby paying for his mistake.
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Theonlyescapefrom the nexus in which we are involved is, it seems to me, to reserve this new power in the air to some international authority.
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He canonlyescapeby paying a fine of a thousand marks.
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At noon, a company of militia seized the bridge, blocking theonlyescaperoute.
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Her extramarital affair with an artist friend provides heronlyescapefrom a calculated life.
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Hisonlyescapeis newly discovered rock music, introduced to him by his uncle.
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Another eight were burned alive in the cellar as theironlyescaperoute was blocked by a burning barn.
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Charley claims he had become so old at heart, and waited death, for it was hisonlyescape.
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In this poem, theonlyescapefrom all this is into the oblivion offered by drink or the television.
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