refuge

During emergencies, those facilities are converted into places of refuge from fires, floods or other disasters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

A recession delivers neither, so this time Treasurys may not be the refuge they once were.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Ninety years on, Kern and Fields’s achievement is still doing what they built it to do—turning a single radiant evening into a refuge against a colder day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Before becoming an MP she managed a refuge for women and children who were fleeing domestic violence.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Down long ages the beautiful old Abbey had stood for happiness, peace and refuge to all.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

"In the surrounding chalk grassland, they can discover how plants and insects cope with extreme heat, and why shade, varied vegetation and connected habitats can provide vital refuges for wildlife."

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Mobile home parks in Carson are among the last refuges of affordable housing for many residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

When the trees of the Singer Tract were at last clear-cut beginning in 1937, however, the wolves it had harbored were shot on sight, as they were when the leases of other refuges expired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

The study, funded by the Morris Animal Foundation, involved sampling more than 500 snakes from two wildlife refuges in South Carolina and Florida, covering 29 species.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

Telemarketing, one of the first refuges of the suddenly indigent, can be dismissed on grounds of personality.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

“People are homeless, they have been refuged to the mountains.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

The ministers of the Lord, that have refuged themselves to this little sanctuary, both increase and honour the number of them that swear, their own callings, and themselves.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr

Exults on hearing, from his man Will., that the lady has refuged herself at Hampstead.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson

A hungry wolf had thinned the fold, Safely he refuged on the wold; And, as in den secure he lay, The thefts of night regaled his day.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay

Harold said as clearly as I speak now, and he refuged himself on Hugh's sound shoulder, and stretched out, and lay all still.'

From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling

Debarred the healthier paths of life, man rushes for employment to the refuging muse; and rightly so, for he finds an employment ornamental and useful still.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay

The long snug harbour of Mahon, which was in the days of canvas wings almost always filled with craft refuging, is now in this era of steam usually tenantless.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne