How to Use escapement in a Sentence

escapement

noun
  • The fleet must fish in order to prevent over-escapement in the river.
    — Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 July 2017
  • All escapement goals were met to propagate strong future runs.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2021
  • The balance wheel and escapement are also on view at 12 o’clock.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The dial side reveals the escapement, a large part of the gear train and the mainspring barrel.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The technology for watch escapements has not changed much in the last 200 years.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 11 May 2026
  • Gates said the last time that happened was in 2019, when escapement goals were easily cleared.
    — Bill Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
  • But because the fish moved all at once in a huge slug, faster than the fishermen could catch them, thousands more passed upstream than the escapement goal.
    — Miranda Weiss, Wired, 13 June 2020
  • Separate gear trains and barrels run into a single escapement (in this case, the toubillon).
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Chinook and chum are returning to those rivers in numbers so low that there’s barely enough to meet escapement targets for spawning.
    — Liz Ruskin, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2023
  • Both rivers are ending their seasons significantly greater than the upper end of their escapement goals.
    — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2021
  • With only nine examples made, the piece is known as the first wristwatch to incorporate a double escapement.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2021
  • This key-wind dumb quarter-repeating, jump-hour movement with ruby-cylinder escapement is housed in a 54mm case.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 26 June 2023
  • The switching from compression to bending is the essence of the company’s constant escapement.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In a watch, the engine comprises the gear train, escapement, balance and attendant devices.
    — Michael Clerizo, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Patek added a loupe to the sapphire crystal caseback to allow the wearer to appreciate the advanced escapement.
    — Thomas Wojtowicz, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The movement holds several patents and Rolex’s Chronergy escapement.
    — Kristen Shirley, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The escapement is a flying carousel, a type of tourbillon that rotates once every 60 minutes around the dial, with the balance wheel in full view.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 5 May 2021
  • The clock, with massive metal gears, a huge stone weight, and a precise, titanium escapement inside a protective quartz box, will go deep into the shaft.
    — Dylan Tweney, WIRED, 23 June 2011
  • There was not a mechanic among them; these were scientists, and their conversations buzzed with talk of spectrums and quantum levels, not gears and escapements.
    — W. Wayt Gibbs, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2012
  • Just to be sure, Panerai adds an Incabloc anti-shock device, protecting the escapement from jolts.
    — Carol Besler, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The result is an extremely stable impulse to the balance throughout the power reserve, and zero friction in the escapement.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2025
  • On top of that harvest, the Egegik, Ugashik, and Naknek-Kvichak districts exceeded their sockeye escapement goals.
    — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2020
  • In fact it's probably used far more often for the former than the latter, nowadays; and even Breguet made a table clock with a tourbillon (and constant force escapement, no.
    — Jack Forster, Bloomberg.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The escapement’s pallet lever, on the other hand, is unusually crafted in 14-karat gold, a nod to historical chronometers.
    — Elizabeth Doerr, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The run is still better than 2018 when low sockeye returns forced managers to greatly restrict fishing time to achieve sufficient escapement.
    — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2020
  • The design is both ultra-contemporary and high-tech, with its front-and-center escapement perched on top of the dial next to an hour-and-minute dial tilted at 50 degrees.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 8 July 2021
  • The high frequency, which increases shock resistance, combines with the constant force magnetic escapement to give the watch a high chronometric rating.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The Blast Hourstriker is a rare combination of complications that includes a strike works that chimes hours and half hours on demand and a tourbillon escapement.
    — Carol Besler, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The state says that Bristol Bay is likely having some of its lowest chinook runs yet, and the Kenai River is also set to miss its escapement goal.
    — Olivia Ebertz, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
  • After just a few paltry catches, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game closed the fishery, hoping to boost escapement.
    — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2020

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