(v. i.) To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(2) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
(3) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(4) Photograph: Met police The three girls were interviewed in December by detectives about the whereabouts of their friend but were not themselves considered at risk of fleeing Britain.
(5) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
(6) 21 April 2009: Unicef says it faces a "human avalanche" of civilians fleeing the conflict .
(7) Young people with degrees are fleeing the country, leaving permanent skills gaps that will undermine any future recovery.
(8) Children with special needs also had to flee St Matthews parish hall during the attack on the Lower Newtownards Road.
(9) The archbishop of Irbil's Chaldean Catholics told the Observer fewer than 40 Christians remained in north-western Iraq after a jihadist rampage that has forced thousands to flee from Mosul and the Nineveh plains into Irbil in the Kurdish north.
(10) At one stage he even contemplated fleeing the country to avoid the obligations of serialisation.
(11) Speaking about the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the charity to which he is going, he said: "The organisation was founded at the suggestion of Albert Einstein in the 1930s for those fleeing the Nazis, so given my own family history there is an additional personal motivation for me.
(12) And he said yes, and I was so happy – I would have felt bad if he’d said no.” With the noose tightening around Aleppo, Masri says: “Aleppo is the final revenge against the city that was the cradle of the peaceful revolution - a genocide against everyone that does not flee all they have, and the graves of their families.
(13) Traditional media companies have been fleeing the US stock market to escape their low valuations.
(14) Many of those fleeing the violence currently live as refugees in Turkey.
(15) Obama said: “The people who are fleeing Syria are the most harmed by terrorism.
(16) In all likelihood, Congress will recess for the month of August without doing anything about the flood of children fleeing across our border ... and those children will just keep coming.
(17) But many other Eritreans have not been so lucky in their attempts to flee a country where President Isaias Afewerki – described as an "unhinged dictator" in the US embassy cables revealed by WikiLeaks – justifies the existence of his large army with the threat of a renewed conflict with Ethiopia, from which Eritrea gained independence in 1992.
(18) The Congolese army's campaign against the rebels has not progressed well, with troops fleeing when they hear of the approach of M23.
(19) Police said later that he fell to the ground while trying to flee with his hands cuffed behind his back and cracked his head on the ground.
(20) "While the state security forces in some instances intervened to prevent violence and protect fleeing Muslims, more frequently they stood aside during attacks or directly supported the assailants, committing killings and other abuses," said an HRW report released on Monday.
Flex
Definition:
(v. t.) To bend; as, to flex the arm.
(n.) Flax.
Example Sentences:
(1) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
(2) Pharmacological actions on the nociceptive flexion flexes of the hindlimb were investigated in 14 normal subjects.
(3) But Wawrinka, who seemed to be flexing his knee a moment ago, is making more mistakes.
(4) With the whole spine flexed, muscle activity in the cervical erector spinae, trapezius and thoracic erector spinae muscles was higher than when the whole spine was straight and vertical.
(5) 'Squeeze' with the left hand followed by 'flex' with the right elbow.
(6) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
(7) This paper examined the mobility of intervertebral joints in axial rotation in a neutral and in two flexed positions.
(8) When the hair is maintained flexed its sensory neurone discharges tonically (Fig.
(9) The elongate and slim shape of the trunk provides great mass moments of inertia and that means stability against being flexed ventrally and dorsally by the forward and rearward movements of the heavy and long hindlimbs.
(10) On admission, his right hand and all of right fingers were flexed.
(11) These tendons pass dorsally from the median nerve through the carpal canal, where the nerve is subject to pressure when the tendons stretch whilst the wrist is flexed.
(12) For a nation that has begun to flex its military muscles, its presence on another world perfectly demonstrates its national prowess.
(13) An extended position proved to be more successful in demonstrating that finding than the flexed one.
(14) Blood pump diaphragms are required to be biocompatible and must be capable of long-term flexing without failure.
(15) As the earliest treatment the fixation of the shoulder joint in abduction and external rotation with flexed elbow on a splint as prevention of further stretch on the plexus and contractures seems to be the most important masure; later on a physio-therapy and mobilisation of the joints is of essential importance.
(16) At approximately 70% of the fracture load for the 90 degrees flexed knee, nearly 35% of the contact area was exposed to pressures greater than 25 MPa.
(17) A separation between the femur and the tibia of 1.3-3.8 mm was found in 3 knees which were slightly flexed during the traction.
(18) Cholesterol and stigmastanol are largely buried in the hydrocarbon part of the membrane, distinctly restricting the flexing motions of the fatty acyl chains whereas the conformation of the phospholipid headgroups is little affected.
(19) After ingesting even a small amount of sucrose, the fly begins making frequent, tight turns, flexes its front tarsi to bring more chemosensory hairs into contact with the substrate and repeatedly extends and retracts its proboscis.
(20) Another case confirmed that an abduction force on the flexed hip can produce anterior dislocation of the hip.