fallout shelter
Example Sentences
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Intimations of imminent war were routinely made, with one host asking viewers to secure a "fallout shelter."
From Salon • Dec. 30, 2024
A nuclear fallout shelter that Canada built during the Cold War for its top government officials opened as a museum in the late 1990s.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023
Most people don’t notice the door to a long-abandoned fallout shelter.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 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
“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
