Sentence examples for fled coming from inspiring English sources

Harry and Edna were at home when both were stricken by an unnamable terror, and they have fled, coming for sanctuary to their very best friends in the world.

How ironic is it, after all, that England, the country which many early Americans fled, coming to this new land to establish a democracy of the people and by the people, is coming to grips with the mistakes they made in the days after 9/11, and now is compensating British citizens whom they have identified were wrongly treated while the United States refuses to budge?

Some U.S. and Japanese critics complained that the U.S. call for evacuation was excessive and sowed panic; those who fled came to be called "fly-jin," a play on gaijin, the Japanese word for foreigner.

Thomas Duffy, a retired state police major who worked on the Bulger case for more than a decade — before and after he fled — came to court on Friday to see the case through.

Dr. Rodchenkov's revelations, his first public comments since fleeing, come at a crucial moment for Russia.

It is possible that Dhao did not know that the first missiles to hit the Gaddafi convoy as it tried to flee came from the air.

"Ongwen's time for amnesty is long gone," he said, adding that prisoners who had managed to flee "came back with testimonies … about how brutal Ongwen was to other children who tried to escape".

The seed may have been planted in 1988, with the naming of Frank Gehry as the architect for Walt Disney Concert Hall — a civic commitment to return downtown to its early 20th-century glory days, when it was a hubbub of activity rather than a place to flee come sunset.

Every citizen deserves not to be faced with situations so intolerable that the choice to remain rather than flee comes at terrible personal and financial cost.

Revka sees the doves turning "the entire sky white" and claims that "not a brick would remain" of the town she fled before coming to Masada.

"I feel at home here," said Mr. So, 55, who like many fled the coming of Chinese rule to Hong Kong and settled in the Toronto suburbs.