flee - use in sentences

Preposition: from

  • wrath: O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • idolatry: In 1 Corinthians 10:14 Paul had told them to flee from idolatry.

Object

  • oppression: A large proportion of asylum applicants are looking for a better standard of living rather than fleeing oppression.

Preposition: as

  • refugee: Thousands of Protestant settlers were killed in the uprising and many fled as refugees to England.

Preposition: into

  • exile: James's son-in-law, William, was invited over from Holland and James fled into exile.

Adjective complement

  • empty-handed: Brough attacked his elderly victim, leaving her with severe facial and head injuries, and fled empty-handed.

Modifying Another Word

  • precipitately: But thinking himself unsafe so near the metropolis of the kingdom he had abdicated, he fled precipitately to France.
  • abroad: In 1607, leading Irish noblemen fled abroad to escape arrest by the English government.

Preposition: across

  • border: Mary escaped Scottish imprisonment and fled across the border to England, the home of her English cousin Queen Elizabeth.

Infinitive complement

  • escape: He died in Paris having fled to escape capture.

Preposition: in

  • terror: Instead, the man turned and fled in terror.
  • panic: Most of the English infantry fled in panic toward Newcastle.

Preposition: from

  • tomb: Verse 8 of chapter 16: Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb.

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