How to Use flee in a Sentence

flee

verb
Definition of fleenext
Synonyms for fleenext
  • He was forced to flee the country.
  • Many people fled the city to escape the fighting.
  • He was accused of trying to flee the scene of the accident.
  • The family fled from Nazi Germany to Britain in 1936.
  • Police say the suspects got in the car and fled the scene.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Williams fled after the shooting, and Choi died at the scene, the complaint said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023
  • The suspects fled the scene in a white sedan and remain at large as of March 12, per Fox 11.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In many cases, the ships got spooked, pulling up their gear and fleeing the scene.
    — Ian Urbina, TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
  • As her uncles pack their things, one of them talks about fleeing to the south.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Their country was being bombed, and so many of them fled west.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The bull tears through the crowd as men run, narrowing in on one fleeing man.
    — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The insects fled only 47 percent of the time when the robot didn’t flash its wings.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The young boar fled alone while the sow ran in circles, crashing through the woods, trying to evade this new boar.
    — Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The White House told Russians to flee here instead of fighting Ukraine.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Two of the suspects were shot and injured, while the other two managed to flee the scene.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 17 July 2023
  • Hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled to southern Gaza since the start of the war on Oct. 7.
    — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In 1964, the sixth year of the dictatorship, Juanita fled to the United States.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
  • On the recording, the man on the sidewalk is seen stepping into the street and firing at the fleeing car.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The suspect sprayed a witness who tried to restrain him, then fled, D’Amico said.
    — Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The three teens fled when the train pulled into the Broadway-Lafayette station, police said.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Its Gazan owners had fled, leaving it to sniff at the tracks of an Israeli tank.
    — Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The car then fled and was later found out to be reported stolen.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Ronja and Birk flee into the forest and try to survive on their own.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • More than 100 Catholic priests have fled, been kicked out of the country, or denied reentry to Nicaragua.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • As the result of a rebellion within the empire, Nero fled Rome to die.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 29 July 2023
  • The family fled fighting twice more in Wafa’s first month.
    — Loay Ayyoub, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The clerk fled the store during the robbery and locked the suspect inside by himself.
    — Jared Formanek, CNN, 29 July 2023
  • His friend fled the scene in a vehicle, ran a red light, and killed two cyclists.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The 15-year-old then fled, tossing his weapon into a yard nearby, Gualtieri said.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • To their horror, one of the fleeing animals broke its back.
    — Nick Haramis, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024

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