How to Use escape hatch in a Sentence

escape hatch

noun
  • Each of the four has an escape hatch from the bears.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025
  • If there is no guide in the room, fear will look for an escape hatch.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • It’s being sucked out of the escape hatch in the middle of space.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 17 May 2022
  • There's always an escape hatch.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In that sense, this listing is part trophy, part escape hatch.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 4 June 2026
  • So, was there a crew member awake and on watch, since the fire was able to block escape hatches?
    — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • There’s also an available roof escape hatch.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For Megan, romance books became an escape hatch.
    — Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 23 Dec. 2025
  • And yet, every clue has an abiotic escape hatch.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The night sky program and all the exhibits were yet another escape hatch.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 23 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some gadgets work like escape hatches, designed to mute the noise of life and transport you to a safe space.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 May 2026
  • 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
  • His sense of oppression never quite left him, nor did the compulsion to find an escape hatch.
    — Charles Baxter, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • His sense of oppression never quite left him, nor did the compulsion to find an escape hatch.
    — Charles Baxter, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Again, pointing to the frustration itself is the escape hatch.
    — Jessica Lynne, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The bunker will feature its own living space, a mechanical room, and an escape hatch.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Not as an escape hatch—that's a pernicious fantasy.
    — Sally Adee, IEEE Spectrum, 1 July 2019
  • And kids can grow from interacting with their peers and teachers—no digital escape hatch in sight.
    — Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • So many of these men, strong and battle-hardened, perhaps weakened by the desire for a magic escape hatch, were fooled.
    — Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • The team has an escape hatch in his contract in 2025, which means this could be a de facto contract year for him.
    — Dan Pompei, The Athletic, 15 July 2024
  • 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 video settles briefly on a person opening the Conception’s escape hatch.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 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 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

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