fugitive

Example Sentences

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Chang, a citizen of Taiwan, remains a fugitive, the department said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The U.S., considering him a fugitive, was seeking his extradition from Spain, and he was likely looking at prison.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

Messages from that trial reveal Marsalek has had plastic surgery to alter his appearance as well as details of his life as a fugitive.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

The prosecution presented bank records, testimony from over 50 witnesses and documentary evidence, while slapping down defence arguments blaming Najib's close associate -- the shadowy fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low.

From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025

Waking from the dream, Tartini attempted to recollect the fugitive motives of this diabolic sonata, but could not — and wrote instead, from those fragments, his sonata, infamous for its difficulty, called “The Devil’s Trill.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson