tornado shelter
Example Sentences
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Some people will go to a tornado shelter as soon as a warning is issued.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023
Brooks, who lives in Oklahoma, has an 8-foot by 5-foot tornado shelter in his house that doubles as a walk-in closet.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2021
“Many of the employees were gathered in the tornado shelter, and after the storm was over they left the plant and went to their homes,” a company spokesman told the AP.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2021
But at toll plazas with only booths, if they have a tornado shelter it’s going to look like a metal trap door into a concrete box mostly submerged in the ground.
From Washington Times • May 11, 2018
She had supported him and he had been her caretaker, lifting her out of bed in the mornings and pushing her wheelchair up the hill to a tornado shelter whenever a storm hit.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2016
