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How to use the word getaway in a Sentence?

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Davis claimed to have acted only as their getaway driver, and that it was the other three men that entered the house that night.

Watauga County Sheriff Office

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Joe Biden is giving up and going to the beach, the president has no events today and instead is in Delaware for a holiday getaway, while omicron spikes all across the country.

Rachel Campos-Duffy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Instead of looking for a getaway destination that's a little bit further away, they are looking for something that’s close to home.

Danielle Hale

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It was a random dude just ran up to the balloon, stuck a knife in it, and ran off. We had police close by because of another driver earlier, so they went over and arrested him and his getaway driver.

Nic Gulas

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are English back to I don’t know when, but I know there is Jewish blood in the family, they might have worried they’d have to buy their way out of England. Maybe it was part of a getaway plan.

Eric Bradley

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There's no other getaway like this, these days I don't have any time to read and I'm really looking forward to having hours and hours of 'reading time'.

Francesco Tomba

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Rooftopping is like a getaway from city life to me -- Hong Kong is such a fast-paced city with so much pressure and noise, when I'm on a rooftop, everything slows down, you don't hear anything but wind, all the rush from the ground became like slow-motion.

Daniel Lau

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A lavish vacation of several weeks will not necessarily bring more happiness than a quick getaway that lasts just a few days. In fact, it may actually bring more happiness in the long run to go on two short vacations, separated by several months, than one long one each year, you'd have two sets of experiences to look forward to and two sets of memories to look back on and relive for years to come.

Timothy Bono

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There aren't little giveaways, it's the overall skill with which the attack was executed, and they didn't just go nuts and shoot wildly, as amateur jihadis do. They set out to kill specific people and never list focus. [ They ] even stayed cool during the getaway phase. These men had killed before.

Ralph Peters

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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