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

Others had taken refuge there before, and the Nazis had never found it.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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

The study, funded by the Morris Animal Foundation, involved sampling more than 500 snakes from two wildlife refuges in South Carolina and Florida, covering 29 species.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 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 refuges are part of a chain including also the refuge on Upper Klamath Lake just over the border in Oregon.

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

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

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

Thus refuged, Clo slipped into the wrap, and arranged the floppy hood.

From The Lion's Mouse by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

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