How to Use escape room in a Sentence

escape room

noun
  • Heater returned to his day-to-day life at the escape room.
    Robin Romm, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • Gaming when by themselves and escape rooms when made to do so by Chiarella.
    Arushi Jacob, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • The new venue, which had its grand opening on Wednesday, features nine themed escape rooms.
    Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The list is compiled of the 10 best ghost tours, Halloween theme parks, escape rooms and more.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There is performance and rage, humor and babies, bell ringing and escape rooms.
    Erica Firpo, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • The Nemesis Club is the 10th best escape room in the country.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Owls went paintballing last weekend and went to an escape room earlier this season.
    Christina Huang, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • That’s where Tiny Towns and this Clue escape room mystery come in (both can also be played in groups).
    Clint Davis, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
  • A lot of people don’t see working at an escape room as something worthy of being recognized.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The commercial significance of that idea stretches much wider than escape rooms alone.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Miller spent another ninth inning having to find his way out of an escape room, his third adventure of a save in his last four outings.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
  • That language places escape rooms inside a much broader movement shaping leisure globally.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Campers can while away their hours with axe throwing, Quidditch matches, foam sword fights, live-action role-play, escape room challenges and more.
    Robin Roenker, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • That may be the clearest explanation for why escape rooms escaped their niche so successfully.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The disaster forced terrified guests and hotel staff to leap from windows or dangle bedsheets to escape rooms engulfed in smoke and flames.
    CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • This year saw the arrival of a new escape room, and a thrilling mountain coaster, Mountain Mayhem, is slated to open this fall.
    Taryn White, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Those venues, which include an arts and crafts area, karaoke and escape rooms and a speakeasy, will replace the 1,836-passenger ship’s kids spaces.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • While its various clues and challenges may make Atlas9 feel like an escape room, there’s no requirement to complete all the tasks before guests can leave.
    Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The arcade, escape room, mining and carnival style games are excluded, and some rides and attractions have height and weight restrictions.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Fans of shows or movies where characters break out of prison will have a chance to try it themselves at a new interactive escape room concept opening in Grapevine this fall.
    Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Likewise, Elsbeth has only her flash of insight about the contents of Hollis’s panic room when the trio visits an escape room.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The ship is packed with everything from a FlowRider surf simulator, waterslides, laser tag, an escape room, and more.
    Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
  • Main Event will definitely mean fun times for families, kids and adults of all ages with arcades, bowling, billiards, escape rooms, a restaurant and much more.
    Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
  • As part of the transition, the company will transform the ship's current kids areas into adults-only spaces including a speakeasy, escape room, karaoke room and an arts & crafts area.
    Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
  • According to promotional websites, the park also features escape room-type challenges as well as interactive events.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Try activities that require new strategies rather than repetition of familiar ones, like escape rooms or murder mystery events/parties.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • The Bawah Survivor programme has a beginner-level escape room/scavenger hunt up to an advanced level, where guests can overnight in the open on the outer islands.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
  • There's 9-hole mini-golf, virtual reality, an escape room and a carnival with arcade-style games and an interactive mystery to solve.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • One Piece is fundamentally an escape room experience, letting visitors become part of a pirate crew to solve puzzles.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The plot is warm-blanket-comforting stuff, but the leads are delightful and the situations — a holiday escape room, a Christmas costume party — can perk up a bad mood.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025

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