10 sentences with “refuge”

The fortress was a safe place for everyone. It was a refuge from the storm.

In the reef, the school of fish took refuge among the corals of various colors.

The rain fell incessantly, soaking my clothes and penetrating to the bone, as I sought refuge under a tree.

My bedroom became my nightclub, my stage, my refuge.

Doñana is a refuge for endangered birds as rare as the purple moorhen and the majestic imperial eagle.

The Romans who had settled in England were driven out, either fleeing for refuge in Wales or across the channel to Brittany in northern France.

He tried to persuade them to flee to the Alps to seek refuge in their (mostly Celtic) homelands, but was eventually persuaded to return to plunder Italy.

In Los Angeles he belonged to a minority and was teased by the kids at school and in the neighbourhood. So he took refuge in literature, in the crazy world of science fiction.

I listened to my wife Sally, for whom faith has always been a refuge. Although she has heard the doctors' reports along with all of us, she has not given them the authority I give them. She believes that only God can decide when it is time for us to die.

But in the summer of 1987 Carlos Martín returned to the Doñana refuge and discovered to his horror that 4,500 hectares of shallow lagoons and marshes on the park's shores, where flamingos, cranes and herons fed, had been illegally drained for agriculture.