Sentence examples for fled them from inspiring English sources

One reason they are now so pretty is that, centuries ago, huge numbers of people fled them.

A woman of robust temper, she cursed her accusers, attacked them physically and fled them when she could; to no avail.

I had always fled them as a vampire flees the cross – they seemed forever on the point of offering me something good.

Rachel is a wolf expert in self-elected exile in Idaho, avoiding an emotionally exhausting mother (Binny), a stepbrother, Lawrence, who fled them both as a teenager and a country that has faded from her mind.

You think of the skinny misery-goats you've known (heck, I used to be one of them!), then you think of the dreadful marriages you made when slender and how you started getting fatter when you fled them and finally you think: "Praise divorce and pass the panna cotta – it's not calories, it's insurance!" But even I am not endlessly smug.

Last month their shares sank as U.S. financial markets fled them, fearing that the backers of the U.S. housing industry would become illiquid.

Fleeing them she ran into another man, who beat her head with a metal bar.

The other US government agencies they usually count on for support are fleeing them.

But are there other tools — better tools — that would inspire me to chase down ambitious projects instead of fleeing them?

Renzi's concern is that terrorists now fighting over Libya could slip into Italy, undetected, in the boatloads of refugees trying to flee them.

Media – whether we think of wasli or canvas – can loom over an artist oppressively, paternalistically: you flee them or fight them before recognising them for your own.