Sentence examples for fleeing like from inspiring English sources
"The rebels are fleeing like rats, to the mountains," Colonel Qaddafi said.
Meanwhile, Colonel Qaddafi said at about the same time, "The rebels are fleeing like rats, to the mountains.
The rebels are certainly not fleeing like rats, but neither are they running a well-coördinated effort involving multiple forces outside and inside Tripoli.
"This was our reward for maintaining the buildings well, instead of fleeing, like some owners did in the hard years," Mr. Osnos added.
It helped terrorise the Lebanese population into fleeing, like the broadcast messages on Israeli-controlled radio saying that Tyre and Sidon were about to be bombed (they have not been bombed yet).
Such was the case with "The Man From London," by the Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr, making his first appearance in the main competition with this austere black-and-white work that had the press fleeing like panicked slaughterhouse cattle.
They fled like cockroaches.
"We must flee like hunted animals".
Many of those who fled, like me, did so reluctantly.
He flees like so many men, young or not so young.
But thou art fled, Like some frail exhalation, which the dawn Robes in its golden beams, -- ah! thou hast fled!
