refuge

The last refuge of people who definitely have a budget but suddenly develop philosophical objections to using it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

They are mapping walking routes, identifying refuge sites, and helping residents and visitors recognize when they need to leave the coast immediately.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

TELLURIDE, Colo. — For four days every Labor Day weekend, the Telluride Film Festival turns this tiny mountain town into something of a refuge from the outside world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Tamang ultimately managed to take refuge with a few others in the village of Shanti Bazar for two days until the army came to rescue them.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Her even temper was like shelter to me, a place to seek refuge.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Researchers carried out the study in the Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh, one of the country's last major refuges for saltwater crocodiles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

These farmlands around the refuges are now irrigated by > water from Upper Klamath Lake.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

A hungry wolf had thinned the fold, Safely he refuged on the wold; And, as in den secure he lay, The thefts of night regaled his day.

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

The light of that furnace shone through the lattice stonework of the tomb, and in its lurid and ominous glare Adrian beheld the faces of those who refuged with him.

From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Henry Rider Haggard

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

Exults on hearing, from his man Will., that the lady has refuged herself at Hampstead.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson

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