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  • noun Plural form of escapee.

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Examples

  • They were escapees from the Brocklehurst's collection at Swythamley, just above the Dane Valley, and inevitable neglect during the last war allowed these once confined creatures to spread far and wide.

    Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands Roger Redfern 2010

  • Atlantic pirate ships were staffed with escapees from the horrible British Navy.

    Aargh? Roger Sutton 2009

  • I liked it particularly the Death Blossom, but the villains all looked like escapees from a hair replacement ad.

    Remember The Last Starfighter? | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • They may be descendants of escapees from a local captive breeding program.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • Rationality is a dead giveaway for escapees from the Cult of Republicanism.

    Think Progress » Hagel: “Focus Group-Tested Buzz Words…Like ‘Cut and Run’ Debase the Seriousness of War” 2006

  • Do we have a "gringo culture", or are we a bunch of widely diverse escapees from the U.S. culture?

    rents and--- 2006

  • Now this city has become a conservatory of audacity, a museum of successful liberations, a tomb for 300,000 activists, escapees from the merry apocalypse of the sixties — the proof, too, that perhaps the time has come in America to choose between reality and commemoration, between living and surviving.

    Road Trip: Part II Bernard-Henri L 2005

  • Now this city has become a conservatory of audacity, a museum of successful liberations, a tomb for 300,000 activists, escapees from the merry apocalypse of the sixties — the proof, too, that perhaps the time has come in America to choose between reality and commemoration, between living and surviving.

    Road Trip: Part II Bernard-Henri L 2005

  • Seven escapees from the Burmese dictatorship have been dumped on the isle of Nauru.

    POOR, POOR, PITIFUL OZ 2006

  • Commonplace Lincoln Navigators appear around corners like escapees from a 1950's Japanese monster flick.

    Christina Nealson's SMA article (#11) 2004

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