A valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level.
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Examples for "escape "
Examples for "escape "
1 Last year his parents decided he should try to escape to Europe.
2 How can this visit help me answer the question I can't escape ?
3 Neither side will escape challenge: this research will impact on the vote.
4 They allow people to escape their reality and enter a new one.
5 Now he decided a different course of escape might be in order.
1 We had a safety valve and that may have affected our display.
2 These disks are a safety valve , deep down in Henrik's private underworld.
3 And I would put that into the category of the safety valve .
4 It was a safety valve that allowed the most desperate to go.
5 Eph and Fet backed away from the blue-lit closet, their safety valve .
1 The design of the atmospheric relief valve received special consideration.
2 That left the reactor dependent on another backup system, a special sort of relief valve .
3 But, as luck would have it, the relief valve wasn't working properly that day either.
4 In theaters before electricity, Mr. Whittier would say, the ghost light acted as a pressure- relief valve .
5 Thanks for being such a nice pressure- relief valve .
1 The pressure escape valve is often attached to this hydraulic valve body.
2 As money laundering becomes harder to hide, Putin is losing his escape valve .
3 If I don't it's not the fault of the escape valve .
4 For many, this is the escape valve party for a ragtag army of none-of-the-aboves.
5 This time there was no escape valve up through the weak, nonsymmetrical, semisolid layers.
1 None who enter escape ...' Cocking her head she raised a hand to forestall any comment.
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