Sentence examples for could not flee from inspiring English sources

Many could not flee in time.

Soldiers killed all those who could not flee, burning down houses, killing livestock and destroying crops.

She could not flee because he chained her to a table.

But in 1816 he was cruelly reminded that he could not flee present reality entirely.

For family reasons, Mr. Gaznavi could not flee Afghanistan during the Taliban rule.

Ryan decided that he could not flee, so when Samaritan's Purse ordered him to evacuate, he resigned and stayed behind.

More, who could not, fled into the bush, constantly running from one militia or another, often surviving by eating rodents and wild plants that made them sick and even killed them.

Those who couldn't flee felt they had no choice but to lie still and play dead among the bodies.

Rather than acknowledging that it persists, he labels those (largely black) residents who couldn't flee their impoverished neighborhoods as those who are not "ambitious and organized".

With a cashless trail, you were fated always to be what you had always been; you couldn't flee far from your name, your purchases, even your network of friends.

For China, a collapse would mean a flood of millions of hungry refugees (who couldn't flee south; there they are blocked by the minefield of the DMZ); it would also mean the possibility of having South Korea's military, and its American allies, nervously contending with the Chinese over who would occupy the territory of a fallen regime in order to stabilize the territory.