Someone who flees from an uncongenial situation.
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Examples for "fugitive "
Examples for "fugitive "
1 One son was in the Albany Penitentiary; another a fugitive in Canada.
2 Enforcement officials earlier said the fugitive was believed to be in China.
3 Retribution followed me; and I long remained a fugitive in the land.
4 There was in the first place no mention of the fugitive nephew.
5 In me you see a fugitive from the wrath of the cardinal.
1 There is a great risk of runaway wildfires under the current conditions.
2 Eventually the runaway must land in the arms of the mounted police.
3 No doubt in pursuit of a runaway ; perhaps with those terrible dogs.
4 Much more still needs to be done to curb runaway sentence inflation.
5 Chadwick had worked with the FBI on runaway cases a few times.
1 Why didst thou fleer at our friend, who feigned himself asleep?
2 M. You can't keep within tolerable bounds!-Thatsaucy fleer I cannot away with-
3 Betty, with a very saucy fleer , said to Shorey, There would be a trial of skill about that she fancied.
4 They sha' na flout and fleer , the feckless queans, the hissies wha'll threep to stan' i' your auld shoon ae day!
5 Fleer came running up to his father, his long hair flying.
6 None of your fleers and your jeers, Sir, cried John.
7 Ben swore a big oath, fleered a laugh, and kicked the sand with his heels.
8 You've got your howitzer buckled on, fleered Andy Green.
9 The cripple laughed again his feeble, fleering laugh.
10 Raybur commanded the left flank in the company of Geften while Wyrik and Fleer commanded the right.
11 But we were not the only fleers .
12 The ambassador turned with a fleering triumph.
13 I betche there ain't a word of truth in all that scarey talk, Happy Jack fleered heavily.
14 And as to the flickers and fleers of the neighbours, your onnurable onnur, a leave me to humdudgin they.
15 Yet everybody fleers at it.
16 Soon he was close thereto, having hewn away all fleers that hindered him, and the doorway was before him.
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