6 sentences with 'fleeing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fleeing and other words derived from it.
• « The Romans who had settled in England were driven out, either fleeing for refuge in Wales or across the channel to Brittany in northern France. »
• « The immediate effect of the Black Death was that lords tried to prevent their peasants from fleeing the land and to keep wages at the low levels they were at before the plague struck, provoking several peasant uprisings. »
• « The best known Calvinists in the American context were the Puritans, English Calvinists who left Europe (initially fleeing persecution) to try to create a perfect Christian community in the New World. »
• « More than 1,300 German aircraft attacked Poland at once in the first stage of the invasion, and Poland capitulated in October, with its government fleeing into exile in London. »
• « Thousands of European Jews had been immigrating to Palestine since around the turn of the century, fleeing anti-Semitism in Europe and hoping to create a Jewish state as part of the Zionist movement founded during the Dreyfus Affair in France. »
• « In Europe, refugees fleeing the Middle East (and to a lesser extent Africa) in search of stability and the infinitely greater opportunities available to them abroad have led to a resurgence of far-right and, in many cases, openly neo-fascist politics. »