How to Use fugitive in a Sentence

fugitive

1 of 2 adjective

• As he daydreamed, fugitive thoughts passed through his mind.
• The whereabouts of the fugitive Oliveira are still unknown.
  — Mary Ellen Cagnassola, PEOPLE.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• That prompted the fugitive task force to come to the hotel to keep eyes on the car, Wedding said.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 11 May 2022
• For most of Wednesday night, one of their tenants stood in the backyard with a gun, watching for the fugitive shooter.
  — Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• The fugitive hunters hit the streets and quickly started gathering leads.
  — Michael Balsamo, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2022
• Here, Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff play fugitive crooks who take a hostage after a holdup gone haywire, and then attempt to lie low at a farm.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• Only fugitive basket cairns mark the sketchy route that descends to reconnect with the Ridge Trail.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2022
• The daring movie will focus on Mengele’s fugitive years, spanning from Paraguay to the Brazilian jungle, and will be told from the man’s point of view.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 18 Oct. 2022
• But here was a fugitive love story, a romance, one sure to boost the antislavery cause.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Something more akin to the rebellious and fugitive nature of Just Above Midtown.
  — Essence, 19 Jan. 2024
• Woolfolk said the city’s fugitive unit is now working to apprehend Howard.
  — Chelsea Prince, ajc, 28 Jan. 2022
• In the secret headquarters of the underground fugitive network known as the Path, the Sith Lord arrives at a space-dock right as a ship flies up into the air.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 June 2022
• Ludo was about to go to the downstairs kitchen that cooks for the hotel conferences when Jeff found the fugitive figs behind duck legs someone had put in front of the pan.
  — Joel Stein, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2022
• The fugitive cruise ship is connected to a massive corporate bankruptcy on the other side of the world.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2022
• She was arrested on a fugitive warrant in connection with the out-of-state homicide.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2022
• This is one of the ways in which AR enables fugitive identification and tracking.
  — Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• A week later, the department’s fugitive unit was able to locate Hudson in Norcross and arrest him.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 29 June 2022
• The scenarios now likely to play out are prompting analogies to the era of slavery, when Southern states fought for the return of fugitive enslaved people who fled to the North.
  — Jacob Bogage, Christopher Rowland, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2022
• Norman believed Hamley was a fugitive searching for a gun, but Hamley had toy balls in his pocket.
  — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2022
• The department’s fugitive unit is pursing leads in hopes of finding Barkley, officials said.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• The fugitive slave kneels behind him, perhaps pausing from adjusting the costume.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
• Lincoln was also literally saying that if the slave states remained in the Union, the northern states would return their fugitive slaves.
  — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 12 May 2022
• The third mafia fugitive boss to be arrested in Sicily, Mr. Denaro was tried and convicted of murders and involvement in bombings.
  — Frances D'emilio, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2023
• One woman is a fugitive freedom fighter, the other an outcast bounty hunter.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 13 June 2022
• The city also points out fugitive dust particulate from truck traffic.
  — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2022
• Investigators tracked him Thursday with the help of the department’s fugitive unit.
  — Matt Bruce, ajc, 12 Mar. 2022
• These zones—a large one forms every summer in the Gulf of Mexico—are also produced by fugitive nutrients.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• President Bill Clinton did effectively sell a pardon to the late Marc Rich, then a fugitive financier.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
• An Arkansas judge has issued a fugitive warrant for his arrest.
  — Savannaheadens, oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
• In the midst of great tidal surges of information, reality itself begins to feel fugitive.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023

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fugitive

2 of 2 noun

• They discovered that he was a fugitive of the law.
• The fugitive, who is wanted by the FBI, hasn’t been seen since.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2023
• Joseph Dibee, 54, was a fugitive for more than a decade.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
• Cloud and the gang have escaped Midgar as fugitives and are now on the hunt for Sephiroth.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2024
• The third fugitive, one William Jones, soon left for Canada.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• She is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• Reeves did not say why the man was considered a fugitive.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 13 May 2023
• The fourth officer is a fugitive and is believed to have fled the country.
  — Olga R. Rodriguez, ajc, 16 Feb. 2023
• The jail also lists him as a fugitive out of Alabama with no bond.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 3 May 2023
• The law is hot on the fugitive's trail, investigating the scene of her crimes at the boarding school.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• But the officer ignored the fugitive, reached in, and pulled his colleague out of the water.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2023
• The rifle On Monday night, the fugitive’s time on the run took an even more harrowing turn.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• One of the cases involves three guns purchased in 2020 that ended up in the hands of a wanted fugitive.
  — Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2024
• Some women paid a high price, landing in prison for abetting his life as a fugitive.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• The fugitive claimed to have survived on the run, in part, by eating watermelon.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Denaro, Italy's most wanted fugitive, had been on the run for 30 years, The Washington Post reports.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 16 Jan. 2023
• Reid was booked into the DeKalb County jail as a fugitive but was let go on Dec. 1, a jail official said.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2023
• One of them, Frank Vazquez, fled the country and remains a fugitive to this day, most likely in Mexico.
  — Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2023
• Bill trying to win back his estranged wife, or Lee’s fugitive past catching up with him?
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2023
• The warrant was used to arrest Clegg on a charge of being a fugitive from justice, charging him with the murders, the statement said.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• Cosa Nostra top boss even while a fugitive and had a power base in the port city of Trapani, in western Sicily.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2023
• Denaro, Italy's most wanted fugitive, had been on the run for 30 years, The Washington Post reported.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 16 Jan. 2023
• In 2014, due to her failure to comply with the requirements of her sentence, Garver was listed as a fugitive by the court.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The star of the movie also spent much of 2022 as a fugitive, jumping from one unsettling headline to another.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 Jan. 2023
• When the man leaves it becomes evident to the viewer that the fugitive, Leila (played by Diana Habibi), has managed to enter the apartment.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 11 Dec. 2022
• Its owner, Wei Huang, fled the country and is now a fugitive, according to the Department of Justice.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• In mortal danger and trapped as Poland is closed down, Joan becomes a hunted fugitive running for her life.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
• The fugitive, who was being housed at the Warren County jail, reportedly used gym equipment to climb though the jail's rooftop.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 17 July 2023
• Will Smith is a fugitive from a sugar plantation, desperate to make his way across Union lines.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2022
• Early on the morning of April 26, the Union cavalry surrounded the tobacco shed, trapping the fugitives inside.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024

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