Sample Sentences for
refuge
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    She took refuge from the sun under a beautiful oak tree.
    refuge = protection
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    The refugees sought refuge across the border.
    refuge = a safe place
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    If there was no water, no refuge, then they'd have nothing, not even hope.  (source)
    refuge = safe place
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    We'd been born into an ugly world, and the OASIS was our one happy refuge.  (source)
    refuge = comfort
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    The Palaces had been conceived as humane options—refuges for the infected until they reached a point where the madness took over.†  (source)
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    At a loss for what to do next, I took refuge under the eaves of the town library and sat on my load.  (source)
    refuge = protection
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    If then the Count meant to scatter these ghastly refuges of his over London, these places were chosen as the first of delivery, so that later he might distribute more fully.†  (source)
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    Although the vision of the date palms would someday be just a memory, right now it signified shade, water, and a refuge from the war.  (source)
    refuge = safe place
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    Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.†  (source)
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    The tight little crawl space under the floorboards suddenly felt like a coffin, like I was already dead and buried. My refuge from the nightmare of Plaszow was now a trap.  (source)
    refuge = safe shelter
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    He doesn't have any business there, but theaters are safe refuges no matter what city he's visiting.†  (source)
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    Millions of Afghans fled across the border and General Zia gave them refuge.  (source)
    refuge = a safe place
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    First, thirty thousand black men were transported from the refuges and relief stations back to the farms, back to the critical trial of a new way of working.†  (source)
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