(v. t.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.
(v. t.) To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall.
Example Sentences:
(1) The German automaker announced Friday it will create another line at the plant, producing the X7, a larger SUV with three rows of seats similar to a Cadillac Escalade.
(2) I think it had a red and yellow plastic slide in the drive, the Pett Level equivalent, perhaps, of a Cadillac Escalade.
(3) The key point of this study was that first, cemented total arthroplasty does not represent a surgical escalade, a repeat operation is always possible in case of failure, and second, the concept of peritrapezial arthritis, and especially Crosby's stage 1 or stage 2 scaphotrapezial arthritis, is not a contraindication for total trapeziometacarpal arthroplasty.
Escapade
Definition:
(n.) The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.
(n.) Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.
Example Sentences:
(1) The novel, first published in 1911, features the escapades of a 15-year-old hero who impregnates three women, one of them his own aunt.
(2) The dark-green Audi in which he journeyed to his last escapades had moss growing in its foot-wells ("three different sorts", he pointed out, proudly), and a variety of useful knives in the glove-box.
(3) dangerhere.com (@dangerhere) Squirrel escapade at QPR exposes Paul Walsh's limited imagination: "You couldn't make it up Jeff."
(4) Tony Blair, in one of his more creditable escapades, travelled the region pleading for help in suppressing al-Qaida.
(5) This distinctive subgenre encompasses the operatic red-earth journey of Priscilla, the heart-wrenching campfire odyssey of My Own Private Idaho , the incandescent howl of The Living End , the wide, open skies of Transamerica and the west-coast desert escapades of this year's Bruno & Earlene Go to Vegas .
(6) His soul-mate (and fourth wife), talented musician and performer Lisi Tribble, encouraged Ken's musical escapades; he once turned up at our barn party where everyone had been invited to perform a musical number and solemnly announced that he was going to rap.
(7) As the night progresses, instead of launching on another drunken escapade, we end up having a serious and almost sombre conversation; at least, as sombre as you can get with Walsh, who's always liable to puncture a melancholy moment with an explosive laugh.
(8) As the escapade nears its climax, Harvey Keitel makes a guest appearance.
(9) Much was made of the hideous conditions he and his men would "brave", so long as they did it at the most disagreeable time of year, and virtually nothing of his decision to leave behind a six-year-old daughter for the sake of an escapade that would not attract attention if it did not threaten to finish him off.
(10) There is nothing rock'n'roll about Franzen, none of the champagne book launches or late-night escapades that mark the careers of, say, Jay McInerney or Bret Easton Ellis .
(11) The characters are not countercultural icons so much as self-serving thrill-seekers whose escapades happen to antagonise the establishment.
(12) But such locked-door escapades must remain hidden, for the regime floats as its raison d'être the notion that it is improving the conditions of life, both physical and moral; and like all such regimes, it depends on its true believers.
(13) Ayanna shows off the scrapes on her leg from a skateboarding escapade the previous week.
(14) Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not reeked of hometown late-night drinking escapades, thwarted attempts at pulling and kitchen-sink dramas.
(15) The attack took the recent flurry of mass hacking escapades into new territory.
(16) It was an escapade completely in character for the larky laird, who scampered round the village in a gorilla suit.
(17) It is the way with such things that this whole escapade only came about by luck.
(18) Obscene cartoons, jokes, songs and thousands of scandal sheets were the vehicle for circulating news, gossip and anecdotes about the ancien régime , from Marie Antoinette’s athletic sexual escapades to tales of gambling, corruption and despotism at court.
(19) Carrie is a writer, and her adventures aren't just love escapades as they would be for a Fanny, or even an Elizabeth Bennet: they are material filtered though one woman's distinctive point of view and crafted into text in her unique voice.
(20) Jagger revealed that his daughters Jade and Elizabeth are in the process of sourcing yurts for the family escapade, and hinted that they may even visit after-hours raves at Shangri-La: "I don't need [my daughters] to show me the cool places to go.