Sentence examples for longed to flee from inspiring English sources

That is why women, no less than men, devote themselves to her case; you don't desire her, but you urgently want to know what she desired, and what she longed to flee.

A flash from "Suspicion" or "An Affair to Remember" or "The Philadelphia Story" makes you long to flee the theater and rent one of the classics it has the audacity to throw in as footnotes.

Instead, I held myself together long enough to flee the building, then walked round and round the block, sunglasses on even in the rain, whimpering into a Kleenex.

The Chargers have long been agitating to flee to the Los Angeles market.

"How shameful for this last minute attempt to squelch this event -- especially given that the G-8 leaders have long since decided to flee from the public view rather than hear our voices".

Turkey has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to erect 17 refugee camps and plans to build more as long as Syrians continue to flee.

The couple are put through endless hoops and forced to remain in the country long after they expected to flee with their booty.

The rally fed fears of a replay of the violent 2005 protests that fragmented into riots and mass looting and caused Mr. Bakiyev's long-serving predecessor, Askar Akayev, to flee the country.

Licking his wounds at the University of Bonn (but not for long), Schumpeter next had to flee Germany in 1932, when the Nazis rolled in.

The irony here is that Zulfikar had already made up his mind to flee long before news of the Criminal Code revisions hit the press.

The trafficking networks may have been shut down for now, but as long as people remain desperate to flee they will re-emerge.