How to Use take/find/seek refuge in a Sentence

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• Strikes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah sowed fear in one of the last places where civilians could seek refuge.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2023
• The men had taken off in an attempt to find refuge in a local home.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
• As in the series, the pair take refuge one night after a sniper incident.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 10 Feb. 2023
• As Kathleen's men raid homes and apartments in search of them, Joel and Ellie take refuge in a bar.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
• Some of them take refuge in water, while others remain on land.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• That further reduced the area where civilians can seek refuge by more than a quarter.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2023
• The play examines the debate over whether the family should stay and fight or leave to seek refuge elsewhere.
  — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• In the middle of the night, the owner of the home, played by Mahershala Ali, shows up to seek refuge with his daughter, played by Myha’la Herrold.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• Assuming the gunshots were coming from Gaza, Ms. Abud and her companions stopped to take refuge in the shelter with the bird.
  — Isabel Kershner Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• Recall that during the heat waves that rolled across the country, libraries became a free, safe, and cool place for people to seek refuge.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• The pair, who were between 10 and 12 years old, went onto the ice to retrieve it but had to take refuge on a small island when the ice started to break around them, Salela said.
  — Naperville Sun Staff, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2023
• Ivanovitch let multiple neighbors take refuge in his home.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Many festival-goers took off by foot and tried to find refuge in nearby orchards.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2023
• The dog caught the attention of three adult crocodiles while trying to find refuge in the deep waters of the Savitri River.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• There are also a number of civilians who have gathered there to seek refuge during the course of the conflict, and those lives need to be protected.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• Monday episode featured more blowout arguments between the soon-to-be parents, which led Brandan to flee their home and take refuge in the town square.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
• Cows and buffalo - their ribs visible - take refuge in ponds.
  — Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Eleven of the Colombians would seek refuge at the nearby Taiwanese Embassy, only to end up under arrest.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
• Two Black teenagers wearing zoot suits had to seek refuge at the Pasadena police station from marauders.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• The map also includes libraries and senior centers where residents can take refuge from the heat.
  — Emma Uber, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
• So many children have multiple times moved, trying to seek refuge, trying to get away from the bombardments.
  — CBS News, 30 June 2024
• But when hours without cool air turned into days, Villeda decided to ditch her sweltering home and seek refuge down the street.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 20 July 2024
• Most workers also ran to an underground shelter to seek refuge.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• Some migrants were likely to seek refuge in churches once they were processed by Border Patrol and released onto the streets of San Diego.
  — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023
• That fighting spilled over with the military shelling and launching airstrikes directly at the village forcing the civilians to take refuge in the nearby monastery, Soe Aung said.
  — Hannah Ritchie, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• Messaging back and forth with friends, Levi was able to determine which villages were occupied by Hamas and were unsafe to seek refuge in.
  — Lauren Meltzer, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• As early as August, the bears — which use sea ice as both a means of transportation and a platform for hunting seals — begin to take refuge on land as the ice begins to recede.
  — Heather Greenwood Davis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
• People who seek shelter in mobile homes are also 15 to 20 times more likely to be killed compared to those who take refuge in permanent homes.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
• But when Israeli forces began an assault on Khan Younis in early December, those living there were forced to seek refuge further south.
  — Jo Shelley, CNN, 30 July 2024
• Advocates say the encampment is one of five sites where unsheltered residents seek refuge in the city, but Caggiano said that, currently, there are no plans to disband the other locations.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024