Example sentences for: fled

How can you use “fled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In his telling, Zeus pursued the goddess, who fled from him.

  • As we all know, one characteristic of time is that it stretches out before us in an apparently interminable manner; yet, when one looks back, it seems to have fled, disappeared, evaporated--heaven knows where.

  • The armies of Frederick’s successors proved to be no match for Napoleon’s Grande Armée, however, and as the French advanced through eastern Germany in 1806, Berlin’s bureaucracy, court, and bourgeoisie fled to the country.

  • Rather than compromise, the king fled Paris in a vain effort to join up with armed forces hostile to the Revolution.

  • Last week the Karmapa Lama, a 14 year-old Tibetan Buddhist Leader, fled to India from Chinese-controlled Tibet.


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