REFUGE in a Sentence

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She was in truth grateful for the refuge offered her: Mrs. Peniston's opulent interior was at least not externally dingy.

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 Meanings and Examples of REFUGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
refuge
 n.  a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble
Classic Sentence: (103 in 7 pages)
1  He still took refuge there in summer, but when Mattie came to live at the farm he had to give her his stove, and consequently the room was uninhabitable for several months of the year.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  Then, she knew that somewhere in the opaque gloom about her there was shelter, help, a haven of refuge and warmth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  They'd tramped through my world with slimy feet and there was no place left where I could take refuge when things became too bad to stand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  It was rumored to be the refuge of negro and white criminals and was the first place the Yankee soldiers searched when they wanted a man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  A bawdy house is a haben of refuge affer dis house of hell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
6  No matter what mists might curl around her in the future, she knew her refuge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
7  She was in truth grateful for the refuge offered her: Mrs. Peniston's opulent interior was at least not externally dingy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  Lily had such an air of always getting what she wanted that she was used to being appealed to as an intermediary, and, relieved of her vague apprehension, she took refuge in the conventional formula.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
9  The fact is, I lost them in the crowd soon after dinner, and took refuge here, for my sins.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
10  She pictured the poor creature shivering behind her fallen defences and awaiting with suspense the moment when she could take refuge in the first shelter that offered.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
11  It was as though a great blaze of electric light had been turned on in her head, and her poor little anguished self shrank and cowered in it, without knowing where to take refuge.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
12  She had often glanced at the store-building which had been turned into a refuge in which farmwives could wait while their husbands transacted business.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  She found a refuge in the Jolly Seventeen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  For a time the gossip of Juanita Haydock and the Jolly Seventeen had been a refuge from the droning of Aunt Bessie, but the relief had not continued.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
Example Sentence:
1  Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
2  When I am sad, I take refuge in remembering happier times.
3  The growing number of people seeking refuge in Thailand is beginning to concern Western aid agencies.
4  They looked to the country as the last refuge of liberty.
5  Crying is the refuge of plain women.
6  They were forced to seek refuge from the fighting.
7  All too often, they get bored, and seek refuge in drink and drugs.
8  I should not be called upon to quit my sanctum of the schoolroom; "a very pleasant refuge in time of trouble."
9  The men behind the bailout take refuge in impenetrable jargon.
10  Yet school, which should have been a refuge, is also treacherous terrain for Matilda; its headmistress, is formidable, a fierce tyrannical monster who frightened the life out of pupils.
11  They've fled violence in Myanmar and sought refuge in neighboring Bangladesh; the amount of people is just unfathomable, and U.N. called the exodus as the fastest growing refugee crisis.