How to Use escapement in a Sentence

escapement

noun

• 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 fleet must fish in order to prevent over-escapement in the river.
  — Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 July 2017
• Its pallet fork and escapement wheel are both made of gold.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2022
• The balance wheel and escapement are also on view at 12 o’clock.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Hatchery: The hatchery escapement goal is about 1,300 adults.
  — Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
• 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
• 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 switching from compression to bending is the essence of the company’s constant escapement.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2023
• All escapement goals were met to propagate strong future runs.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In a watch, the engine comprises the gear train, escapement, balance and attendant devices.
  — Michael Clerizo, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 movement holds several patents and Rolex’s Chronergy escapement.
  — Kristen Shirley, Forbes, 7 Apr. 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
• The watch is a regulator (the hour and minute hands are shown on two separate dials) fitted with a pivoted detent escapement.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 6 June 2022
• The escapement eventually reached 1 million sockeye by the time sonar counts ended Aug. 28.
  — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2019
• Just to be sure, Panerai adds an Incabloc anti-shock device, protecting the escapement from jolts.
  — Carol Besler, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• Both rivers are ending their seasons significantly greater than the upper end of their escapement goals.
  — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The wristwatch is powered by a self-winding movement, Caliber 505J, with silicon horns on the lever escapement and a Breguet balance spring, also in silicon.
  — Nancy Olson, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• 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 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

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024