refuge

What looks to others like a chore is actually a refuge from screens, co-workers, children and everything else that demands mental energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

People could be seen taking refuge near the windows and on the roof of the building, while the blaze raged in the lower floors.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

The decisions raise significant consequences for immigrants who have made their lives in the U.S., and stand to reshape public views over the country’s historic position as a place of refuge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

She fled the country and took refuge in Delhi.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

In addition, they said that society depended on women maintaining the domestic sphere—the home—which provided a refuge from the stresses of the outside world.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Meanwhile, many cities have established "heat refuges", which are air-conditioned public buildings where anyone can go in and escape the worst of the weather.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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

Theodore Roosevelt established 52 bird refuges, five national parks and 150 national forests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Instead of a continuous hard shoulder, there are refuges every mile.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

These particular refuges occupy critical positions in the conservation of western waterfowl.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

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 Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith)

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 Kipling, Rudyard

Of the native population many refuged in the Albanian mountains, where they retained their language.

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

Have you not often heard, your exiled parents Were refuged in that court, and at that time?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

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 Gay, John