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

That is what steadies me and breaks me in the same breath, that a land this rich in what it gives, in shade and figs and refuge and myth, keeps burning while the world half-watches.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

But South Korea's heatwave has made it uninhabitable, forcing him to seek refuge under a makeshift tarp just a stone’s throw from Gangnam’s gleaming skyscrapers, where the wealthy remain cool in their aloof abodes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

The secret was shared with us, and a day came when the responsibility of this enchanted refuge fell on our shoulders.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

"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

When the trees of the Singer Tract were at last clear-cut beginning in 1937, however, the wolves it had harbored were shot on sight, as they were when the leases of other refuges expired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

These refuges may help explain Reid's Paradox -- how forests were able to spread so quickly across the region after the last Ice Age ended.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2026

A disturbing example of the latter seems to be building up on the national wildlife refuges at Tule Lake and Lower Klamath, both in California.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

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

From Heathen Mythology by Various

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

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

There I refuged myself till the night came, beat upon by the waves till the breath was well-nigh battered out of my body.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

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