escape bid
Frequency: 6.05.0 per million words
An attempt to escape, used especially in journalism.
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Examples (10)
- The prisoner's daring escape bid was foiled by alert guards.
- Two inmates were shot during a failed escape bid last night.
- Police are investigating a recent escape bid at the maximum-security facility.
- The film dramatizes the famous 1962 escape bid from Alcatraz.
- He was sentenced to an additional five years for making an escape bid.
- Despite the elaborate planning, the group's escape bid ended in capture within hours.
- The security chief warned that any future escape bid would be met with severe consequences.
- Her desperate escape bid involved digging a tunnel with a spoon.
- The report detailed several unsuccessful escape bids from the notorious prison over the past decade.
- The dramatic escape bid has raised serious questions about the prison's security protocols.