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Sanctuary
"Sanctuary" in a Sentence (17 examples)
The tiger, having had its wounds treated, was returned by the villagers to the animal sanctuary without incident.
They desecrated God's sanctuary.
A biodiversity sanctuary in Brazil called The Pantanal is threatened by deforestation.
The sanctuary is before; and the thief, behind.
It's a wildlife sanctuary.
This is a bird sanctuary.
The church offered them sanctuary.
Without bolder action, our children won't have time to debate the existence of climate change. They'll be busy dealing with its effects: more environmental disasters, more economic disruptions, waves of climate refugees seeking sanctuary.
Tom donated his estate to create a wildlife sanctuary.
The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary was designated September 18, 1992 by the federal government under the authority of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act.
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My car is a sanctuary, where none can disturb me except for people who cut me off.
She saw him, even as she had last gazed upon him, pale, cold, and awful; but still he was there. The coffin was to her like a shrine; all that she held most dear and most precious was within its dark and silent sanctuary.
‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.[…]’
In January, federal agents indicted 16 sanctuary leaders from Texas and Arizona on charges of helping to harbor illegal immigrants from Central America.
The bird sanctuary has strict restrictions on visitors so the birds aren't disturbed.
The government granted sanctuary to the defector, protecting him from his former government.
Near-synonym: chancel (broadly synonymous)
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