fallout shelter
Example Sentences
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Most people don’t notice the door to a long-abandoned fallout shelter.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2022
As a child in New York City in the 1960s, Victor Narro remembers feeling comforted whenever he saw a sign indicating a fallout shelter — three yellow triangles in a black circle.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2022
Another dubious idea, spread by the government and others, was that ordinary Americans could survive a thermonuclear attack by ducking, covering or building a fallout shelter.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021
Returning to my most familiar places from the Before times was like crawling out of a fallout shelter and taking stock.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2021
“This must be the route to the old fallout shelter from the nineteen sixties,” said Grace.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
