How to Use escape hatch in a Sentence

escape hatch

noun

• It’s being sucked out of the escape hatch in the middle of space.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 17 May 2022
• Erin left me an escape hatch to back out of the story, but I was soon hooked.
  — Amanda Holpuch, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Some of the victims crawled out of the emergency exit in the back of the bus and an escape hatch on the roof.
  — David Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
• So, was there a crew member awake and on watch, since the fire was able to block escape hatches?
  — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2019
• The idea of FishED is to slow down the speed of the water so these creatures can make their way out and give them an escape hatch.
  — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Aug. 2019
• The escape hatch might not be used, but the Cowboys believe it’s better to have it.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
• For a lucky few who have the right paperwork and appear healthy, the bridge is in fact a rare escape hatch.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
• Yes, there's an escape hatch as your travel date draws near.
  — Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2020
• Instead of trying to drum Snyder out, the N.F.L. showed him an escape hatch.
  — Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• All of this pointed to the males in the family as the likely source of the escape hatch to the normal paternal dead-end.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
• Toward the stern, an escape hatch located above one of the bunks led to a mess area next to the galley — and just a few feet from the large, open main deck.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• The Purge add an excellent bit of tension in trying to figure out when to team up and when to make a run for it to the escape hatch to win the game.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Yes, the flea-flicker was risky and could have been intercepted and offered an escape hatch for the Vikings.
  — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 23 Jan. 2018
• Again, pointing to the frustration itself is the escape hatch.
  — Jessica Lynne, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Still, if a filmmaker pays Film Threat for a review and the movie is deemed awful, the site provides an escape hatch.
  — Christopher Null, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• An escape hatch is needed, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the method that has been studied the most and is the most viable.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• Manfred still has an escape hatch Rob Manfred is trapped.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2020
• Authorities say the exit on the Conception — along with an escape hatch that opens up near the dive deck on the boat — was blocked by fire .
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• That is, until her friends open a small escape hatch for her by blasting her favorite song through a walkman.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 June 2022
• The group included the ship's captain, who told them that a rear escape hatch was engulfed in fire and that the crew could do nothing to help the passengers.
  — CBS News, 3 Sep. 2019
• His sense of oppression never quite left him, nor did the compulsion to find an escape hatch.
  — Charles Baxter, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Their only two exits were blocked by fire, including a small escape hatch above a bunk bed.
  — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2019
• The bunkroom had one exit through a ladderwell in the forward part of the compartment, as well as an emergency escape hatch in the rear.
  — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• In Josh’s opinion, nothing is keeping him in New York City — so why not give himself an escape hatch?
  — refinery29.com, 11 July 2018
• The video settles briefly on a person opening the Conception’s escape hatch.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• Per BBC News, these hideaways—accessed via a hatch entrance and left, if need be, by a rear escape hatch—measured about 23 feet long and 10 feet wide.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• Eugenides finds an escape hatch for all of his characters.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 4 Oct. 2017
• And by creating that space, DuVernay wrinkled time, found that little girl in the ’90s who had been trapped for years in a white void and flung the escape hatch wide open.
  — Brooke Obie, The Root, 8 Mar. 2018
• That design choice makes outgoing web links seem like a legacy escape hatch for when the chatbot doesn't work, and Google wants to know why more people haven't opted in to this.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2024
• The asymmetrical Abercrombie top is an escape hatch—or at least an extra day of putting off doing your laundry.
  — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 17 June 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024