Read full poem →Wind to scour him flesh from bones.
Way out on the moor you can hear the groans
His gibbet makes when it blows a gale.
Dictionary Entry
A means of escape or exit, or a solution to a problem.
In a Sentence
“When the building caught fire, everyone rushed to find the nearest way out.”
Origin
English (phrasal noun).
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “way out”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To get the kernel from the shell;
Or maggots a way out to win,
When all is gone that grew within;
Read full poem →had wandered till his head was giddy, his best good fortune was finally
to have found his way out again, too late for prudence though not too
late for conscience or for truth! Time spent in such delay is time
Read full poem →an egg hatching in a bird’s nest on a branch of the tree, and as they
watched the little bird peck its way out of the egg, they touched the
backs of their hands together, and then the nun didn’t come out to