bomb shelter
Example Sentences
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In a public bomb shelter two storeys underground, one woman lay sleeping on a bunk bed in the mid-afternoon, while another worked at their laptop.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
On Monday she relocated to the home of a teammate because she said the bomb shelter she had been using was tiny.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
He then proceeded to gut the architectural gem, with reports at the time suggesting that he wanted to turn the concrete structure into a kind of modernist bomb shelter.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025
Visitors to Nir Oz are often taken to a viewpoint on its western edge, where a bomb shelter is all that remains of the home of kibbutz elder Amitai Ben Zvi.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025
Some hippies barricaded themselves in the Science Building, in the lone bomb shelter, and refused to let anyone in who didn’t know the words to “Sugar Magnolia.”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
