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Six example sentences with egress, each labelled with its topic.
Fire codes require a second egress from every floor, so the architect added an outside stair to the rear wall.
Architecture
The castle's builders hid a narrow egress behind the chapel, a passage the garrison could use if the gate ever fell.
History
The photographer waited at the only egress from the terminal, catching each traveler's face the moment they stepped outside.
Photography
The dungeon's only egress is a ladder behind the throne, and players who miss it wander the same hall for an hour.
Gaming
The deed grants the neighbor a right of egress across the yard, so the fence cannot block the path to the lane.
Law
Egress from the stadium took an hour, since forty thousand people funneled through the same two gates to the station.
Travel
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