Fleeing in example sentence

Poverty and the rigid social control of a reactionary Roman Catholic Church made the country inhospitable to intellectual life -- to Britain's and America's great advantage, because both received many bright Irish fleeing the stultifying intellectual life of their homeland.

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One-fourth of them are children, fleeing war and hardship.

Or helping to find the refugees fleeing Myanmar.

And all countries should make sure that no one fleeing war and persecution arrives at a closed border.

Her first memories are of her family fleeing violent riots orchestrated by the ruling political party.

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