Want to use Refuge correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like resort or assistance.
Refuge meaning
- A state of safety, protection or shelter.
- A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
- Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
Example sentences (20)
Shocked onlookers are said to have taken refuge in a nearby taxi office after the assault spilt out into the street.
It was an ironic twist of fate, as the king had it built as a private refuge for himself, desperately seeking solitude.
Finding shelter was not something Mohammed thought he would have to worry about when seeking refuge in Canada.
At age 6, Susan Loriho found refuge at a Kenyan orphanage, after escaping a decades-long civil war in Sudan.
Colman Domingo stars as a prisoner fighting for clemency who also runs and seeks refuge in a theatre group run by inmates.
As its president, she was responsible for raising a whopping $100,000 for a local domestic violence refuge.
Fewer know the more recent stories of the resisters to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who also came to Canada seeking refuge.
However, she did not attend Ladies Aid and sought refuge in the choir where she sang heartily in her not so polished voice.
In the heat of the sun and with smiles on their faces, they worked to help the Refuge reopen, which it did.
Jews, fleeing persecution in Spain in the 15th century, found refuge and prospered in the lands of the Muslim Ottoman Empire.
But rather than becoming the refuge she hoped it would be, its public and central location turned it into a tourist attraction.
In a cosmic opera by artists Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, a starship crew seeks refuge on the hostile planet 85K: Aurora.
Inori, someone with no connection to the organization, ended up with the substance and is forced to seek refuge with Shuu Ouma.
Employees in the vicinity were evacuated to a medical center for diagnosis and relocated to a temporary refuge at a nearby temple.
The birds have travelled hundreds, sometimes thousands, of kilometres, and they need food and rest and a refuge from their travels.
Afghan journalist, who sought refuge in Pakistan fearing Taliban, now selling kidney to alleviate.
Bird Rescue Dunedin is a refuge for birds in an increasingly urbanised and developed New Zealand.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said two of the leases in the refuge had been canceled and refunded at the request of the leaseholders.
Leaving their homes and everything they know, they sought refuge and safety here in Birmingham.
The refuge was established by Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 and is the oldest refuge in the Great Lakes-Big River Region.
Phrases with refuge
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Common combinations with refuge
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- refuge in 56×
- wildlife refuge 22×
- the refuge 19×
- sought refuge 19×
- seek refuge 15×
- refuge and 14×
- seeking refuge 14×
- refuge from 12×
- refuge for 11×
- of refuge 10×
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The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word refuge. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.