Sample Sentences for
egress
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    "If you add an s to this word, right where this tear in the paper is, you get 'Egress.'"  (source)
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    There was nowhere to move the car, however, as the only route of egress was now a foaming, full-blown river.  (source)
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    The egress order had been determined years earlier.  (source)
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    He hastily thrust the uniform into a suitcase in an empty compartment, and a few minutes later, dressed in ordinary clothes, he left the train just before it started off, using the same means for egress-the door near the dining-car.  (source)
    egress = exit
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    When she had laid the supper-cloth, the bridge was lowered to give her means of egress, and she withdrew for the night.  (source)
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    They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of...  (source)
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    Brain Waves ping-ponging inside my skull, no hope of sleep or easy egress to a plane where memory could not intrude, I bent my head, submitting to shame.  (source)
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    Every FORCE:space shuttle carried some sort of atmospheric egress device-it was a custom dating back almost eight centuries to when the entire realm of space flight consisted only of tentative excursions just above the skin of Old Earth's atmosphere.†  (source)
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    Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?†  (source)
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    Bus service was erratic and seemed to go nowhere, but the Federal Government had forced a highway or two through the swamps, thus giving the citizens an opportunity for free egress.†  (source)
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    I guessed, by his preparations, that egress was allowed, and, leaving my hard couch, made a movement to follow him.†  (source)
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    Alarmed at this terrible outburst between the two principal and responsible owners of the ship, and feeling half a mind to give up all idea of sailing in a vessel so questionably owned and temporarily commanded, I stepped aside from the door to give egress to Bildad, who, I made no doubt, was all eagerness to vanish from before the awakened wrath of Peleg.†  (source)
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    "The multitude, washed or unwashed, always has free egress and ingress" into the White House, an astonished visitor wrote earlier in Lincoln's presidency.†  (source)
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