refuge

Pastry-hunting tourists are ruining this Italian mountain refuge.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

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 slow release of water creates both habitat refuge and water resilience, he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Lee Grant settled into the car that would take him away from the farm where he’d found refuge, after running away from home.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

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

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

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 ministers of the Lord, that have refuged themselves to this little sanctuary, both increase and honour the number of them that swear, their own callings, and themselves.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr

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

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

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