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  • verb Present participle of escort.

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Examples

  • Would all cash-point users please form an orderly queue alongside the transit and we ` ll begin escorting each of you to your front door.

    What A Bunch Of Plonkers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • The Canadian Navy assisted in escorting across the Atlantic 25,343 merchant ships carrying nearly 200 million tons of cargo.

    British Commonwealth & Empire Co-Operation 1945

  • This being; [sic] if your ladies will trust themselves to me any day, I shall have great pleasure in escorting them in their sight-seeing, and will call upon them with my carriage, if that be possible.

    Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

  • She was bravely sustained, however, by her husband, Colonel Miller, who never flinched in escorting his wife and her coadjutors, however inartistic their costumes might be.

    Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

  • Mark McKearn, class of 1981, recalled escorting a pair of hostages to the mess hall 30 years ago.

    Former Iran hostages reunite at West Point 2011

  • On the 30th anniversary of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, Rahall recalled escorting US Rep. Mo Udall, the venerable House Natural Resources Committee Chair, to the southern Appalachian coalfields, where Rahall convinced the Arizona congressman to include a loophole for mountaintop removal operations in the surface mining bill.

    Jeff Biggers: Should Wilderness Society Strip US Rep. Nick Rahall of the Ansel Adams Award? 2009

  • Mark McKearn, class of 1981, recalled escorting a pair of hostages to the mess hall 30

    SFGate: Top News Stories By MICHAEL HILL 2011

  • On the 30th anniversary of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, Rahall recalled escorting US Rep. Mo Udall, the venerable House Natural Resources Committee Chair, to the southern Appalachian coalfields, where Rahall convinced the Arizona congressman to include a loophole for mountaintop removal operations in the surface mining bill.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • On the 30th anniversary of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, Rahall recalled escorting US Rep. Mo Udall, the venerable House Natural Resources Committee Chair, to the southern Appalachian coalfields, where Rahall convinced the Arizona congressman to include a loophole for mountaintop removal operations in the surface mining bill.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • On the 30th anniversary of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, Rahall recalled escorting US Rep. Mo Udall, the venerable House Natural Resources Committee Chair, to the southern Appalachian coalfields, where Rahall convinced the Arizona congressman to include a loophole for mountaintop removal operations in the surface mining bill.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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