Example Sentences

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Depending on which conference, and which schools, are shrewdest in their maneuvering, there’s a possibility the Pac-12 could simply cease to exist, because all its members will have fled to greener pastures.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2022

By the end of 2019, at least 4.5 million Venezuelans — 15 percent of the population — will have fled the country in just three years.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2019

The UN estimates that by the end of 2014 more than eight million Syrians could have been forced from their homes, including 5.2 million who will have fled the country.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2013

In a few days from now the whole population will have fled, and soon as your soldiers arrive in sight of Adrianople, the town will be abandoned by the inhabitants.

From Peasant Tales of Russia by Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, V.I.

She will have fled far away, and in her stead will she leave this sullen messenger to tell thee that thy Jane has parted from thee forever!

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden