EXIT in a Sentence

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There was a straight passage, dimly lighted, which led from the room in which I had been working, and was the only exit from it.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exit
 n.  passage or way out; act of going away or out
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  There was no exit possible from this oratory, except by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing through the dining-room.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
2  Javert, to all appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
3  He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the sole exit of the Rue Droit-Mur into the Rue Petit-Picpus.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
4  Supposing that a living being had been so wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square hole, this grating would have prevented it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
5  This hall, which was tolerably remote from the cafe, with which it was connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit with a private stairway on the little Rue des Gres.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
6  The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket without exit.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE
7  It had three fronts, but no exit.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
8  On the right bank, the belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will form the branches, and those without exit the twigs.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
9  An exit ought always to be effective, Mrs Linde; but that is what I cannot make Nora understand.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
10  It was so dark that I could not see the means of exit; and, as I wandered round, I heard another specimen of their civil behaviour amongst each other.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  Our first thought, on his departure, was to force an exit somewhere.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  He joined her within five minutes after Julia's exit; and though she made the best of the story, he was evidently mortified and displeased in no common degree.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  There was a straight passage, dimly lighted, which led from the room in which I had been working, and was the only exit from it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
14  We could trace no footmarks below, but it is sure that this is the only possible exit.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
15  He looked pointedly at Mrs. Elsing's flat bosom, grinned suddenly and, bowing, made his exit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  He saw Emma arrive and made a quick exit.
2  The fear is that we have no exit strategy from this conflict.
3  He saved a little girl from being trampled underfoot in the rush for the fire exit.
4  We leave the roundabout at the second exit.
5  She made her exit from the stage to rapturous applause.
6  At the roundabout take the third exit.
7  They took the second exit on the throughway.
8  Then researchers dunk their hands in disinfectant and exit through the chemical shower.
9  The person of ingratitude has a sad exit at last.
10  As soon as the movie was over, Jim made a beeline for the exit.
11  There's also the question of why softwood was used for external fire exit doors originally?
12  Eight years later, after a photoshoot with Erdogan, Turkey's despotic president, and a humiliating World Cup exit, Mr Ozil has become a national scapegoat.
13  "No exit or entry screening will supplant the need for state and local health departments, for clinicians and for individuals to be aware and to think Ebola."
14  The day the US company announced its exit would be forever ingrained in the local psyche.
15  Turns out Jenny had a gun, and all she needed was Tyler to pull the trigger; Jennifer Lopez, who announced her departure from the show to Ryan Seacrest last Friday, has admitted that Tyler's exit helped solidify her decision to leave.