Flee

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"Flee" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Hope is the last thing that man has to flee unto.

Flee ever so fast, you cannot flee your fortune.

When two armies oppose one another, those who can fight should fight, those who can't fight should guard, those who can't guard should flee, those who can't flee should surrender, and those who can't surrender should die.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

Andrew Johnson had to flee his home to save his life.

Brown and his friends were forced to flee.

I think, therefore I flee.

Women chase crazy men; they flee from the wise ones as if they were poisonous beasts.

There is no reason for her to flee.

Why did Kissinger flee Paris and make himself a fugitive from the French law?

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The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.

As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.

When, however, the plant spirits were not strong enough in themselves, then the family called in the Medicine Man. He appeared, a "monster of so frightful mien", with noise making apparatus which produced such a terrifying din that even the hardiest demon was likely to flee.

Huntingdon's ferocity makes the reaction of staff all the more brave. To move towards danger when others are fleeing is the definition of bravery in my book. To place yourself in danger to protect others.

Many people fled the country as war loomed.

Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.

The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion.

Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.

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