great escape

Frequency: 8.015.2 per million words

A particularly noteworthy, famous, or impressive escape.

escapeADJECTIVE + escape

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great

Examples (10)

  • The film documents the great escape of Allied prisoners during World War II.
  • His daring prison break was hailed by the media as a great escape.
  • Our hamster staged a great escape from its cage last night, and we found it under the sofa.
  • Slipping out of the long, boring meeting felt like a personal great escape.
  • The novel is about a magician who plans the greatest escape of his career.
  • Every detail of their great escape had been planned meticulously for months.
  • Historians still marvel at the queen's great escape from the besieged city.
  • For the captured spy, it was the beginning of a long journey to make his great escape.
  • The zookeepers were shocked by the clever monkey's great escape from its enclosure.
  • The story of that great escape is now passed down as a local legend.