Example sentences for: havens

How can you use “havens” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • During the Cold War era, Western countries viewed asylum as a symbolic triumph over the Soviet empire, but refugees displaced by recent ethnic conflicts are finding no havens.

  • As you know, they've also become havens for fraud, abuse, and all sorts of dirty shenanigans.

  • We should not have allowed the refugee camps to become safe havens for the killers.

  • What that trade surplus actually reflects is Russia's sorry state, in which nervous businessmen and corrupt officials siphon off a large fraction of the country's foreign exchange earnings, parking it in safe havens abroad rather than making it available to pay for imports.

  • In 1945, when I was managing editor of the monthly magazine Common Sense (my editor was Varian Fry, who had returned to New York after saving countless lives of artists and writers by arranging for their exit from Vichy France to Spain and Portugal and then to safer havens), I had asked Tucci to write a monthly column.


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