Example sentences for: havens

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

  • The intelligence community has prepared a world map that highlights possible terrorist havens, using no secret intelligence-just indicating areas that combine rugged terrain, weak governance, room to hide or receive supplies, and low population density with a town or city near enough to allow necessary interaction with the outside world.

  • Malaysia’s tax havens are Pulau Langkawi and Labuan.

  • Analysts speculate Kaiser's decision will accelerate a race by insurers to avoid becoming havens for impotent men.

  • 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.

  • In the meantime, Albright had promoted the United Nations' disastrous "Safe Havens" policy, which placed masses of unarmed Bosnian civilians under the "protection" of minuscule numbers of U.N. (but no U.S.) troops--that is, left them at the mercy of Serb paramilitaries, who systematically set about driving them from their homes and killing them.


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