flee

The English flee, the French strip the corpses in the lower border, and the ragged-edged Tapestry ends as suddenly and violently as Anglo-Saxon England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

"Families are being forced to flee for the second or third time in this conflict, with almost nothing left," Amy Pope, the IOM's director general, warned last week.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

The conflict in the Arabian Peninsula's poorest country has forced 82,000 people to flee their homes since the start of September, according to the United Nations.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Text messages show Mr. Vorcaro asked the justice for advice as to whether he should flee the country, for help in staving off authorities and for a private in-person meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

They had to flee immediately, before the Union troops could surround them.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

The novel tells the story of a teacher who flees gang violence in Haiti and his adventures before he finally makes it to Canada, where he re-discovers "the right to breathe without fear".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

After a failed engagement, Locksley flees the city to settle in a village on the Atlantic coast, where he allows his new neighbors to believe he is an impecunious artist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

As Jay flees Hollywood, the city and its people continue to haunt him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

When he stumbles upon the hut of a shepherd who flees at the sight of him, he “greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd’s breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk and wine.”

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025

He marches back to Persia with an army and a wife, and smacks Chobin so hard for wrecking everything that Chobin flees to Fergana, which is like saying he runs away to Mars.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

In response, many crypto asset firms fled the U.S. for foreign shores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

He is the son of refugees who fled communist Vietnam and grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, graduating from Rosemead High School.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Police spokeswoman Maureen Chinaka said the suspects fled when police arrived.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

"As I understand it, bringing family members directly from North Korea is currently impossible," 29-year-old Chae Yoon-seo, who fled in 2019, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

He took one sniff and would have fled if Torak hadn’t grabbed him and assured him in low half-barks that it really was him, and not some murderous wolverine.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The researchers recorded how much time the animals spent near the scent and whether they responded by freezing or fleeing.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

He also said watching his parents rebuild after fleeing communist Vietnam taught him the value of stretching a dollar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The pontiff said Europe was "entering a new stage" with the arrival of men and women fleeing war and persecution, urging countries to welcome them.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The potent Met chorus captured the shrieking cackles of the witches, the horror of the courtiers after Duncan’s murder, and the despair of the exiles fleeing Macbeth’s tyranny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Thus my thoughts, dazed and confused, injecting pain where there was numbness; and my mind, furtively touching the edges of realisation, then fleeing from it in terror.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya