NOUN
- a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency
How To Use fire escape In A Sentence
- The thief got away down the fire escape.
- The metallic clang of the fire escape being clambered on was getting louder by the second.
- Close-set buildings, laundry lines, slant light, patches of weeds, a few would-be gardens and bare ailanthus trees and the fire escapes that fixed fretwork patterns of light and shade on the walls and paved surfaces. Underworld
- Mr Swales said they were also concerned about surrounding businesses as the blaze started to spread and set alight a fourth floor fire escape door on an adjoining building.
- She lives upstairs and comes down the fire escape to visit Jack whenever her no-good mom is entertaining, which is a lot.
- I looked up. The fire escape was empty. A dish towel fluttered on an improvised clothesline; someone else would live there now, some other couple.
- Please exit by the fire escape.
- The external fire escapes to the first floor flats at the rear of the blocks were generally unmaintained
- If the images are to be believed the kind of guys slapping it on are bestubbled boxers in Wayne Rooney-style beanie hats, guys who wear visors and helmets, possibly preparatory to an important moon mission or some welding, and chaps jumping off tenement fire escapes after, one supposes, a bracing bout of unarmed combat with a cadre of desperate gangsters. Magical weekend in Cardiff is in a league of its own
- The main doorway downstairs was the only exit for the whole building, other then the fire escape.
