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Example sentences for "flee"

Lexicographically close words:
fledge; fledged; fledgeling; fledgling; fledglings; fleece; fleeced; fleeces; fleecing; fleecy
  1. And he shall flee from the face of the sword, And his brave ones shall become tributary, And his rock he will run by in terror, And his princes in fright shall abandon their flag.

  2. An image thus made was placed in southwest windows, with the hope that the approaching demon might look upon himself and flee in terror.

  3. In his disordered brain, Saul conceived that a plot was being laid by his son and David, and as a result, David was obliged to flee for his life.

  4. Its princes and generals and many of its gentry became landless and homeless and had to flee into the south.

  5. The remnant of the urban population, no more than 730 in number, had to flee southward.

  6. Thus on one occasion a ruler had to flee from a feudal prince, which in Confucius's view was impossible behaviour for the ruler; accordingly he wrote instead that the ruler went on a hunting expedition.

  7. Within the capital, the emperor was threatened several times by revolts, so that he had to flee and place himself in the hands of Li K'o-yung as the only leader on whose loyalty he could count.

  8. And yef any other body wold stere you to the contrarie, to flee the councell in any wyse, for ye shall fynde it nought and evyll.

  9. But why flee from the present even for an instant?

  10. A good deal of Sultan's hair came up on the claws, but the essential dog was then able to flee under Charity's chair and leave all the rest to the judgment of history.

  11. They shoulder responsibility; they do not flirt; they sort out cranks; they flee from simpers; they put down presumption.

  12. My feet are here, but in a moment my spirit can flee to Xanadu and Zanzibar.

  13. With the regulator armed and equipped, the enemy will flee without taking order as to its line of march," thought the old man.

  14. Let us sell what we have and flee ere the whirlwind shall overwhelm us with evil, I will work for you father and we may be happy again some day, somewhere.

  15. They would flee the fire, encounter dense smoke, and turn straight back toward the flames.

  16. They are also pools of refuge, to which the fish flee to elude the fisherman, and in their warmer depths the finny tribe "hole up" when the streams are frozen over in winter.

  17. The mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and upon it people shall flee together.

  18. Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit, and whither shall I flee from Thy presence?

  19. The sun has risen, and they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

  20. The second member seems to contradict the first; for if none be allowed to flee away, how can any have escaped?

  21. And it cometh to pass, all that see thee shall flee from thee:" Lam.

  22. In June, 1877, Hakim Khan was signally defeated and compelled to flee into Russian territory, whence on a later occasion he returned for a short time in a vain attempt to disturb the tranquillity of Chinese rule.

  23. He was obliged to flee back to his former camp at Korla.

  24. Tchaohoei at once assumed the offensive, and as Amursana was abandoned by his followers as soon as they saw that China was putting forth the whole of her strength, he had no alternative but once more to flee for shelter to the Kirghiz.

  25. In June, 1882, the Corean Reactionists attacked the Japanese Legation at Seoul, murdered some members of it, and compelled the survivors to flee to the seacoast.

  26. Massacres took place in several parts of Yunnan, and the followers of the Prophet had to flee for their lives.

  27. And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

  28. Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have made me flee away.

  29. The forces of Demetrius flee away from him.

  30. Then Judas said: God forbid we should do this thing, and flee away from them: but if our time be come, let us die manfully for our brethren, and let us not stain our glory.

  31. A sinful man will flee reproof, and will find an excuse according to his will.

  32. Flee from sins as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest near them, they will take hold of thee.

  33. For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee from the deceitful, and will withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding, and he shall not abide when iniquity cometh in.

  34. Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him that holdeth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the sword of the dove every man shall return to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

  35. Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: that they may flee from before the bow: That thy beloved may be delivered.

  36. O, O flee ye out of the land of the north, saith the Lord, for I have scattered you into the four winds of heaven, saith the Lord.

  37. I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.

  38. And Gorgias came by night into the camp of Judas, and found no man; and he sought them in the mountains: for he said: These men flee from us.

  39. And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a man, and the sword not of a man shall devour him, and he shall flee not at the face of the sword, and his young men shall be tributaries.

  40. Right there he resolved to flee at the first opportunity.

  41. It was a fatigue, an ache which he could not shake off, and when he returned to the hotel he had settled nothing and was ready to flee from it all without one backward look.

  42. A boar full huge and bristling / soon was likewise found, And when the same bethought him / to flee before the hound, Came quick again the master / and stood athwart his path.

  43. In spite of Signy's repeated warning he will not flee from danger, and falls in combat with Siggeir; his ten sons are taken prisoners, and placed in stocks in the forest.

  44. Your horses therefore shall ye / make to pace more slow, That never man imagine / we flee away in fear.

  45. Be silent, thou once soothing Strain, Or I must flee from hence--for, oh!

  46. Tribes of the wandering foot and weary breast, How shall ye flee away and be at rest!

  47. Hannibal, who had been obliged to flee from Carthage, came to him at Ephesus; and the singularly honourable reception accorded to the exile was virtually a declaration of war against Rome.

  48. Do you remember how the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph and told him to flee into Egypt?

  49. Half-devoutly and half-mischievously he repeated inwardly, "Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.

  50. He who is threatened by one needs but to flee to another if he can take a gift with him.

  51. They have striven to destroy these robbers of Gilboa, but if these are pressed hardly, they flee across the Jordan.

  52. I will watch that captain of the temple; but whither should I flee from the pursuit of a procurator's executioner?

  53. Tonight here let us tarry, but let us flee at morn, For someone will denounce me, that thy service I have done.

  54. I must flee and thou behind me here in the land must stay.

  55. But I rushed on beyond thee, and with the Moor did close, And I made that Moor flee backward at the foremost of my blows.

  56. And I desire to flee From Castejón; Minaya and my men, so hark to me; XXVI.

  57. A military dictatorship, which in 1967 suspended many political liberties and forced the king to flee the country, lasted seven years.

  58. If you escape, flee either back here, or perhaps, better still, to the protection of the monks.

  59. Then I shall flee to the valley, get a guide who can show me the other pass, and make such way from the seat of peril that I shall be well-nigh across the frontier before Sir James knows that one of his quarry has escaped him.

  60. Servants which flee from one county to another shall be committed to prison.

  61. Now we can not all run away, and for some to flee from humanity and to find solace in solitude is only another name for weakness.

  62. Christian Scientists do not flee the world, renouncing and denouncing it.

  63. He shall destroy the ungodly nations with the word of his mouth, so that at his rebuke the nations may flee before him, and he shall convict the sinners in the thoughts of their hearts.

  64. He longed to flee but his legs no longer had the agility of other times.

  65. When, four years after our date, Nero was compelled to flee from his palace and was persuaded into committing suicide, it was because the soldiers had declared against him and had elected another.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abscond; bolt; break; bunk; cease; decamp; dematerialize; depart; desert; die; disappear; dispel; disperse; dissipate; dissolve; dwindle; elope; elude; erode; escape; evade; evaporate; exit; expire; fade; flee; flight; flit; fly; forsake; get; heel; hide; jump; loose; make; melt; pass; perish; pull; quit; retreat; run; scamper; scape; scoot; screw; sink; skedaddle; skip; stampede; turn; vanish; waste


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    flee away; flee from; flee from the wrath; fleeing from