bomb shelter
Example Sentences
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The Wende Museum in Culver City opened its doors in 2017 inside a former 1949 atomic bomb shelter.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
In a public bomb shelter two storeys underground, one woman lay sleeping on a bunk bed in the mid-afternoon, while another worked at their laptop.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
At least three times a week, Oleksandr Ryabov climbs into a bomb shelter in the southern Ukrainian city of Bashtanka and waits for his students to arrive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
He then proceeded to gut the architectural gem, with reports at the time suggesting that he wanted to turn the concrete structure into a kind of modernist bomb shelter.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025
Some hippies barricaded themselves in the Science Building, in the lone bomb shelter, and refused to let anyone in who didn’t know the words to “Sugar Magnolia.”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
