How to Use egress in a Sentence
egress
noun- The auditorium is designed to provide easy egress in an emergency.
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There is no way out to the north, east or west, just a single egress route back through flames.
— AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019 -
Ingress and egress, which can take hours (and hours), was a simple as driving a few miles back to the paved road.
— Katie Bain, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2021 -
Fitzgerald said that the house did have a second egress — indoor stairs on the side of the house that led outside.
— Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2022 -
Hours later, the egress jumped to 126 MB, according to the report.
— David Wainer, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2020 -
The traffic was stopped, as Pogue said trees toppled along the one ingress and egress thoroughfare.
— Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 6 Sep. 2020 -
One was locked and obstructed, while the other -- the only egress from the building, was locked from the inside.
— Omar Khan, Swati Gupta and Vedika Sud, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019 -
It’s much, much, much more stable, and the ingress and egress for boats is really a lot safer for the public and for our staff as well.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020 -
Thanks to our rooftop-tent-on-the-ground’s radical ease of ingress and egress, that dog will even be able to protect you from inside the tent.
— Wes Siler, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2016 -
Reynolds said the old fire station on Commerce Road has a 25-foot access drive with no loop area for ingress or egress.
— Eplunus Colvin, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2022 -
The second-row jumps forward at the touch of a button, allowing easy ingress/egress.
— Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 Feb. 2022 -
The prosecutor said Blake then went to his car, changed clothes and moved his car closer to the exit for easy egress.
— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2021 -
The meter-long worm then makes its way to the surface of the skin and breaks out in a slow, painful egress typically lasting more than 30 days.
— Amy Nordrum, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2015 -
The basements with no windows; the hallways with no doors; the rooms that emphasize the utter lack of escape or egress.
— Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2019 -
Obviously there is a disconnect in the egress and ingress to and from our airport.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019 -
The Commission primarily discussed ingress and egress to and from the car wash.
— cleveland.com, 4 July 2019 -
There is double-height egress with roll-up doors that will allow box trucks to deliver and take away goods.
— J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018 -
Fisker also says the Ronin will have unique doors that improve ingress and egress, but didn’t reveal what form these apertures will take.
— Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 4 May 2022 -
Means of egress shall be maintained throughout the construction project.
— USA TODAY, 1 July 2020 -
Ingress and egress concerns, as well as those over Wilson Mills Road traffic, put an end to that initial plan.
— cleveland, 11 Aug. 2021 -
My own perception of feng shui revolts against the number of doors—that many egress routes can’t be restful.
— Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 1 Nov. 2018 -
Each 3-bedroom, bath-and-a-half home will have a basement with an egress and plumbed for future finishing.
— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2017 -
His phone averaged about 430 KB of egress per day in the six months prior to receiving the WhatsApp video.
— David Wainer, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2020 -
One of the biggest hurdles last year dealt with traffic due to the construction of the south end of the project limiting campus ingress and egress.
— John Benson, cleveland.com, 19 Aug. 2019 -
FedEx Field’s ingress and egress practices, along with the stadium’s food options, will be reviewed.
— Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023 -
The Sienna’s floor is roughly 18 inches off the ground, and the wide sliding side doors make ingress/egress effortless, for man and beast.
— Dan Neil, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022 -
The gullwing doors are eye-catching but also allow Drako to remove the B-pillar, easing ingress and egress from the rear seats.
— Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2022 -
In times of peace, skilled immigration is a net positive for both the country of egress and the country of arrival.
— Alex Salkever, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2022 -
There’s still a B-pillar, but Ferrari says this configuration aids ingress and egress to the rear seat.
— Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 13 Sep. 2022 -
Ingress and egress are halted for the time being, including Burner Express Air and Bus.
— Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2023
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