Example Sentences

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At the end of "Thalidomide," Plath writes, "The glass cracks across, / The image / Flees and aborts like dropped mercury."

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2022

Flees that feed on infected rodents or other mammals typically transmit the plague bacteria.

From Washington Times • Jun. 26, 2014

Thine are the woods whereto my soul,   Out of the noontide beam, Flees for a refuge green and cool   And tranquil as a dream.

From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. by De la Mare, Walter

And welnyh alle seiden this, That Jason was a faie kniht, For it was nevere of mannes miht 3770 The Flees of gold so forto winne; And thus to talen thei beginne.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)

What a newspaper story she would make—"Society Favorite a Paid Spy"; "Woman Lobbyist Flees Capital."

From A Gentleman from Mississippi by Rhodes, Harrison