refuge

With an open-door policy, the mission has been a refuge for as many a 1,000 people, at one point putting up hundreds of cots nightly in its chapel to accommodate women from the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Somehow, they have found refuge in a dilapidated row house with a working television, where their viewing includes nature shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The group was also able to find her family, who had made it to a camp where hundreds of thousands of people from el-Fasher have sought refuge.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

My homeland is a stranger’s checkpoint and, if they are lucky, their refuge.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

If everyone laughed at me, I’d find a place to be alone, a refuge.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

"In the surrounding chalk grassland, they can discover how plants and insects cope with extreme heat, and why shade, varied vegetation and connected habitats can provide vital refuges for wildlife."

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Mobile home parks in Carson are among the last refuges of affordable housing for many residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Tehran's many parks, usually green lungs in a metropolis often choked by pollution, have become refuges since the fighting began.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

Conditions are becoming even more challenging as warming temperatures allow mosquitoes and avian malaria to expand into higher elevation areas that once served as refuges for vulnerable native birds.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026

The refuge manager believes that pesticide residues are now building up in the waters of these refuges, being conveyed there by return irrigation flow from heavily sprayed agricultural lands.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

“People are homeless, they have been refuged to the mountains.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

Still, at the very bottom of her heart lay two thoughts in which her hope refuged itself.

From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

The Serb students refuged in London had post cards printed of the murderer Princip, on which he was described as a national hero!

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

Himself I refuged and his train relieved, 'Tis true, but am I sure to be received?

From Heathen Mythology by Various

Harold said as clearly as I speak now, and he refuged himself on Hugh’s sound shoulder, and stretched out, and lay all still.’

From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling

The long snug harbour of Mahon, which was in the days of canvas wings almost always filled with craft refuging, is now in this era of steam usually tenantless.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Debarred the healthier paths of life, man rushes for employment to the refuging muse; and rightly so, for he finds an employment ornamental and useful still.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay