Example sentences for: refuge

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

  • CBS is counter-programming by offering refuge for women: two heart-tugging TV films in which mother have to give their children away.

  • Through natural disaster, war, and disease, the church has been there as a place of refuge and solace, both physically and spiritually.

  • One is the retreat from materialism and the modern city into a monochromatic refuge of meditative calm.

  • Hawaii (Big Island): The Kona Coast has superb beaches and the Puuhonua-O-Honaunau City of Refuge, Hawaii’s most striking native temple grounds (see page 62).

  • In an acid reference to the Lewinsky cover-up, a confidant of Netanyahu's suggested that Clinton, after initially saying that Pollard "is going to be released," had taken refuge in "a dispute about the word 'is.


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