give refuge

Example Sentences

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Unlike other groups, Sausedo said, there are “no more African American communities” to give refuge to residents, but “just communities where African Americans live.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023

Poland also sees Belarus's behaviour as retaliation for Warsaw's decision to give refuge to Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, a Belarusian athlete who refused to return home from the Tokyo Olympics.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2021

The government that controls shores closest to the point of interception also has a duty to give refuge.

From New York Times • May 30, 2018

However, the Foreign Office referred a question about whether Britain would agree to give refuge to any of the men on the run to the Home Office.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2017

In most cases areas of from ten to twenty thousand acres in extent would, if well guarded, suffice to give refuge to the animals and plants of the field in which it lay.

From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate