someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops"
Used in a Sentence
fugitive
How to use fugitive in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for fugitive.
Editorial note
* If you jailbreak you are forever a fugitive.
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Quick take
someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of fugitive gathered in one view.
someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for fugitive.
noun
someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops"
noun
someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
adjective
lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"
See also: fleeting, momentaneous, momentary
Example sentences
* If you jailbreak you are forever a fugitive.
And you think the US will grant him a visa to work being a fugitive of a muslim country?
He's condemned to be a fugitive forever now.
I can understand this approach to a drug baron or armed fugitive, but to a hacker?
A white guy in a largely non-white country sticks out like a sore thumb, especially a fugitive.
The underground railroad was wrong for refusing to comply with fugitive slave laws.
I guess they cannot legally go around, charging people with aiding a fugitive, all over the world.
It's tantamount to "abandon your entire family and live as a fugitive, or are you too chicken?
A fugitive murderer had used his name as an alias and through that, he'd developed a relationship with him and interviewed him after the person was convicted.
It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property.
"To argue that any person who cannot return to their home country without being arrested is "extralegally exiled" would mean that any fugitive is "extralegally exiled," an absurd result.
While this might be a fine legal argument, it doesn't engender support amongst foreign powers when you tell them you have every right to spy on their citizens but oh, by the way, can you do us a solid and hand over that fugitive?In what world does the US think they'll get cooperation from anyone when they aren't treated not even as equals but with simple decency?
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use fugitive in a sentence?
* If you jailbreak you are forever a fugitive.
What does fugitive mean?
someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops"
What part of speech is fugitive?
fugitive is commonly used as noun, adjective.