fallout shelter
Example Sentences
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It will serve as a fallout shelter against deadly storms and also house the city's police department and the fire department that came to Benham's aid.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
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
Market day looks like you just came out of your fallout shelter after the bomb attack: nobody there but a few old guys with car parts and knives and cookpots, hoping to trade for food.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
