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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Over the course of that conflict, 10% of the population died and half were forced to flee their homes.
  — Ayen Deng Bior, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2024
• 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
• All four women fled the house and McClain chased after them with a gun.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 Nov. 2024
• But this was no entertainer: As Joe watched horrified from the couch, the clown pulled out a gun and shot his mother in the face, then walked to a car in the driveway and fled.
  — Kc Baker, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024