How to Use fire escape in a Sentence

fire escape

noun
  • Test your smoke alarms and tell guests about your home fire escape plan.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The man was completely cut off from any fire escape.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Step onto your fire escape, walk around the block, go to a park and hug a tree for dear life.
    — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appétit, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Mourning doves would build nests on fire escapes warped and melted by the blast.
    — Daily Intelligencer, 12 June 2018
  • Six feet apart at all times means someone’s going to end up out on the fire escape.
    — Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Drive-in movies in the backyard (or across the fire escape) this summer?
    — Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Residents used the fire escape to get out.
    — Nick Caloway, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • The oak tree curled along the red fire escape that led to the workshop from a back entrance.
    — Hazlitt, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The program, called Code Red, is much like a fire escape plan.
    — NBC News, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Even the remade fire escape stairway on the store’s south end is artistic.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Every household should have a fire escape plan that includes at least two ways out of each room.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Díaz's stepfather was able to get away through the outside fire escape.
    — Brian Brant, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
  • In one scene, Marty jumps out of a window and climbs down a fire escape to evade the cops.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Jan. 2026
  • That could be your backyard, a little park, a walking path, a rooftop, or fire escape near a tree.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 8 June 2022
  • The doors in the master closet are so glossy that the fire escape is reflected on them.
    — Jesse Kornbluth, ELLE Decor, 16 Apr. 2019
  • The Ipswich fire chief said at the time that firefighters did not see a fire escape.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Remember that fire escape where imbibers crowded around for the best view and drinks in town?
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2024
  • There were people perched on fire escapes, others watching from the ledge of wide open windows.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
  • For any inspired to tease pets of their own, most of these will run you less than $25, and fit on a fire escape.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
  • Many apartment dwellers above the first floor have fire escapes attached to the outside of their building.
    — Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The officers then help the teen climb through a gap between the fence and a wall and back onto the fire escape.
    — NBC News, 24 Oct. 2019
  • One apartment frequently catches fire, but the stairs on the fire escape were sawed off and sold as scrap long ago.
    — John Eligon, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Roan also bent her back over the railings of the fire escape in a dramatic moment.
    — Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 8 July 2025
  • Díaz’s stepfather managed to get away via the outside fire escape.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
  • In the black-and-white photos, the actress is perched atop a fire escape, with tousled hair blowing in the wind.
    — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The Blakes were the last family to descend a fire escape at the back of the building.
    — Written By Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ; Photographs By Sarah Blesener, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Two others inside the home at the time of the fire escaped unharmed, firefighters said.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 7 May 2018
  • And the first-floor entrance to the east tower, a necessary fire escape, had been bolted shut.
    — Trevor Fraser, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Nash tried to leave through a fire escape but saw an officer on the roof and went back inside the victim's apartment.
    — NBC News, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Workers fled onto the fire escape, which quickly collapsed.
    — Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026

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