How to Use escapade in a Sentence

escapade

noun
  • As a teenager he embarked on a series of ill-advised escapades.
  • That time, as Ali would soon learn, the escapade didn’t harm his chances.
    New York Times, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Kara had just come back from the [2019] World Cup and was telling me about her escapades.
    Andrea Cuttler, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But for the sign-stealing escapades to stop, players need to feel the pinch and the pain too.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Much of the movie’s wit is bound up in its serial escapades.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2020
  • When a bigger escapade beckons, load up the car and head south for St. Louis.
    Nicole Schnitzler, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2020
  • With this week’s Norwegian escapade, Shiv is back in the ring.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The results of the Twitter escapade sort of astounded me.
    Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Make a bunny, a wolf, or a snake, and have your child concoct stories about its escapades.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 25 Oct. 2023
  • This marks the latest of the Beckhams' summer escapades in Europe.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Aug. 2019
  • So the bandits snapped a couple of pictures of themselves during their escapades — and left the camera in the car.
    oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Then there was the Cruz family’s one-day escapade to Cancun.
    Nick Martin, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2021
  • On Monday, Ragnow showed what amounts to a blooper from his escapades in 2019.
    Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2020
  • In fact, the Britons’ whole escapade was a bit haphazard from beginning to end.
    Anne Thériault, Longreads, 14 May 2021
  • The students involved in this escapade may have moved on to other causes.
    Fox News, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Summer is in full swing, which means days at the beach, camping trips, and other outdoor escapades.
    Elizabeth King, Allure, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Aside from their backyard pool escapades, the mother-and-son duo has gone through a lot together this past year.
    Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • His wife, the girl of his childhood, the accomplice in his American escapade, had died.
    New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Big interrogates Kenny Boy, who decides to take the fall for the entire escapade as a way to protect the kids.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The aunt exposed her mother’s escapades and won custody of a child left traumatized.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 17 June 2019
  • To those who know him, his swashbuckling escapades can seem at odds with his low key, bookish persona.
    Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The digital series will showcase their escapades there before their return to the broadcast show in the fall.
    Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 29 July 2019
  • The Lafayette Square escapade offended Christians, because the president waved a Bible around like a prop.
    The Economist, 2 July 2020
  • On one such escapade at Walmart, a friend tried to steal a computer, and police arrested both of them.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2021
  • Since his escapade, Dillon has inspired peers to put pencil to paper.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2022
  • My husband decided to join me on my alternate-side-of-the street escapade one morning.
    New York Times, 6 June 2021
  • The versatile style can be worn with sneakers for a casual dinner or a pair of flats for a Broadway escapade like Duff.
    Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Similar protests have taken place in Siemens offices around the world since Bleakley’s escapade made YouTube.
    Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The need to evolve from a Clamor into a Teo impelled a series of self-consciously virile escapades.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Athletes on the road can now enjoy both a romantic escapade and a refreshing night’s sleep, instead of the either-or scenario of the past.
    New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021

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