fallout shelter
Example Sentences
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The Diefenbunker still has most of the form and features of the nuclear fallout shelter it once was for Canadian government and military V.I.P.s.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023
Our basement bunker was actually a combination bomb shelter and fallout shelter, to protect us from both the explosion and the subsequent radiation.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2022
The museum’s exhibits are found throughout this sprawling network of concrete tunnels used as a bomb shelter in the 1940s and as a fallout shelter thereafter.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021
“Brewster McCloud” A salute to Robert Altman continues with the filmmaker’s darkly comic 1970 fable featuring Bud Cort as a young loner living in a fallout shelter beneath the Houston Astrodome.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2021
Market day looks like you just came out of your fallout shelter after the bomb attack: nobody there but a few old guys with car parts and knives and cookpots, hoping to trade for food.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
