Sentence examples for fled to take from inspiring English sources

Xuanzong, accompanied only by a few troops and a small group of relatives and courtiers, fled to take refuge in Sichuan province, the power base of the Yang clan.

America carried out air strikes against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants in Iraq to assist Iraqi forces in their effort to break the siege of Mount Sinjar, where people from the surrounding area, mostly from religious minorities, had fled to take shelter from the jihadists.

With the destruction of homes and livelihoods that the fighting caused, the remaining population fled to take refuge in and around Maiduguri.

He died while fleeing to take refuge with Pope Gregory IX.

On many occasions he was forced to flee, to take refuge and to journey from city to city.

Spotting this weakness, Grouchy, who had been reinforced by Bordesoulle's division, energetically launched his three divisions against the Coalition squares, dispersing a number of them, with these men disorderly fleeing to take refuge in the Étoges forest.

Greek migrants fled to Egypt and Palestine — taking roughly the reverse route that modern-day refugees take from the Middle East to Europe.

In 1950 the Chinese had entered eastern Tibet; in 1959 Lhasa rose up against their savage occupation and the Dalai Lama fled to India, taking with him enough silver coins to fill a room which, for weeks, Mr Tsering silently guarded.

This was his status for the next fifty years, even after the Nationalists fled to Taiwan taking Chang with them.

He married but his wife fled to Louisiana, taking his wallet.

But he turned out to be an informant who fled to Saudi Arabia, taking the device with him, which was then passed by the Saudis to the FBI for analysis.