How to Use go into hiding in a Sentence

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  • The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has caused many Afghans to flee to the airport, go into hiding, or stay at home.
    Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Gough said Bryan and his fiancée had to go into hiding.
    Amir Vera, CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Team America sent texts to dozens of Afghans who’d made their way toward the gates, urging them to leave and go into hiding.
    Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
  • He was forced to go into hiding under the protection of the British government.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Loftus is among dozens of people across the country who are being charged in the riots that forced Congress to adjourn and go into hiding.
    Scott Bauer, Star Tribune, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Bridges plays a former CIA agent forced to go into hiding—and that’s when his troubles really begin.
    Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2022
  • As the report suggests, since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, Christian minorities in Afghanistan have had to flee or go into hiding.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Nasser had clamped down on critics of his regime, forcing Efflatoun to go into hiding.
    New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, which included a round-the-clock armed guard.
    CBS News, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The death threats and bounty led Mr. Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, which included a round-the-clock armed guard.
    Joshua Goodman, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, including a round-the-clock armed guard.
    Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, which included an around-the-clock armed guard.
    Carolyn Thompson and Hillel Italie, al, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The death threats and bounty led Mr. Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, which included an around-the-clock armed guard.
    Carolyn Thompson and Hillel Italie, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Beard posted $1 million bond several days after his arrest, leading a relative who had custody of the 1-year-old to go into hiding with the girl.
    Tom Steele, Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Though my family and I are again being uprooted from our home to go into hiding, the Iranian regime’s attempts to silence me will never work.
    Masih Alinejad, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The death threats and bounty Rushdie faced over the book after its publication led him to go into hiding under a British government protection program, which included an around-the-clock armed guard.
    Fox News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • An elections official, having to go into hiding or having to be protected by a security detail — that ought not to be, in our country.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Doctors forced to go into hiding to evade arrest have set up underground networks of clinics and tele-consulation services.
    Helen Regan, CNN, 21 July 2021
  • And obviously being blamed for that murder is devastating and then having to go into hiding.
    Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2022
  • Flight attendant Kate Jewell must go into hiding when the man of her dreams becomes increasingly jealous and violent.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • With a target on their backs, Jake and his family decide to leave the Omaticaya and go into hiding, ultimately seeking sanctuary with the Metkayina, a clan of reef-dwelling Na'vi whose bodies have adapted to ocean life.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • After various mysterious deaths start to happen all over the world, all of which involve criminals, Light must make a decision to continue to use the notebook to get rid of evil in the world or to go into hiding before he is caught.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Since then, prosecutors have routinely used gag orders to prevent the companies from spilling the beans to suspects who might destroy evidence, go into hiding or threaten someone’s life.
    Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Stephney confirmed that, far from pressuring the group, Columbia kept its distance, apparently content to let this very successful act fall apart or solve the problem or go into hiding on its own, as long as the company did not have to get involved.
    John Leland, SPIN, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Naturally, the plan backfires, and an heir ends up being conceived out of wedlock, forcing the royal family to go into hiding, and forcing Cazotte to acknowledge the limitations of his expertise on love.
    Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Coincidently, Ma seemed to go into hiding for an unspecified reason, only briefly showing his visage to fulfill a philanthropic function.
    Sean-Michael Pigeon, National Review, 17 June 2021
  • Top Hamas leaders typically go into hiding during conflicts.
    Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • Mexican child protection specialists told Amnesty International researchers that many children have had to go into hiding after being repatriated.
    Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2021

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