How to Use flee in a Sentence

flee

verb

• 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
• Police said that the suspect fled the scene on the night of the murder.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2024
• Ukrainians at least were able to flee from the war zone.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
• The boy and Gomez, who police said are both from Fort Worth, fled the area with the weapon.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• Reed would have to flee to Chicago, and change his name.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2024
• The trio fled in a Jeep, getting to 72nd St. and 35th Ave., ditched the Jeep and got away in a black sedan, cops said.
  — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
• Williams fled after the shooting, and Choi died at the scene, the complaint said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023
• Gomez and the 12-year-old had already fled the scene, police said.
  — Chris Boyette, CNN, 16 May 2023
• The student then honked her horn, which caused the suspect to flee.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2022
• The group fled the scene in a gray Acura with no front license plate.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 5 May 2023
• Their transport is stopped by troops at the border, and the group is forced to flee.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2024
• The gunman fled in what appeared to be a black Ford sedan.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The gunshots caused crowds to flee from restaurants and clubs into the streets.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Secret Service agents fired shots at Routh, who dropped the weapon and fled.
  — The Deadline Team, Deadline, 25 Dec. 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
• But even for those who haven’t had to flee, the war has seeped into daily life in ways large and small.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2023
• The man fled ran away on foot but was later found a few blocks away and detained by officers.
  — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Jan 2025