How to Use fire escape in a Sentence

fire escape

noun

• The first image of the play is a girl on a fire escape.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2021
• The robbers ran out of the window and down the fire escape.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 22 Feb. 2020
• The oak tree curled along the red fire escape that led to the workshop from a back entrance.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Nov. 2023
• From his fire escape, Lin did his bit to keep up morale.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 10 June 2021
• Drive-in movies in the backyard (or across the fire escape) this summer?
  — Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• Test your smoke alarms and tell guests about your home fire escape plan.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2022
• The program, called Code Red, is much like a fire escape plan.
  — NBC News, 5 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Have a home fire escape plan and practice at-home fire drills.
  — Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
• Water flowed out of windows and down the back fire escape.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Mourning doves would build nests on fire escapes warped and melted by the blast.
  — Daily Intelligencer, 12 June 2018
• The Ipswich fire chief said at the time that firefighters did not see a fire escape.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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 doors in the master closet are so glossy that the fire escape is reflected on them.
  — Jesse Kornbluth, ELLE Decor, 16 Apr. 2019
• The black shapes are the porch, the stairs that lead up to the third story fire escape, and the woman of the house, who is sitting on the steps with a hot drink in her hand.
  — Liana Finck, The New York Review of Books, 15 Mar. 2020
• Even the remade fire escape stairway on the store’s south end is artistic.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Many apartment dwellers above the first floor have fire escapes attached to the outside of their building.
  — Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
• 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 squirrels munched happily on the fire escape as Noah sat and chatted to them from the other side of the window.
  — Kelly McMasters, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2023
• On the April day that gives Donald Antrim’s book its title, the novelist had to be coaxed off a fire escape.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• Once, Davis was too scared to jump from the fire escape stairs and stood there, frozen, after the rest of her family had escaped.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
• Two others inside the home at the time of the fire escaped unharmed, firefighters said.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 7 May 2018
• 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
• And the first-floor entrance to the east tower, a necessary fire escape, had been bolted shut.
  — Trevor Fraser, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
• Every household should have a fire escape plan that includes at least two ways out of each room.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
• At least this fire escape was a proper stairway, with a bannister to hold on to, and not just one of those ladders attached to a wall.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
• This becomes clear as cats begin to congregate on your fire escape.
  — Bryn Durgin, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024