fallout shelter
Example Sentences
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The building was once a fallout shelter and might be one of the few buildings that will survive.
From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024
The Diefenbunker still has most of the form and features of the nuclear fallout shelter it once was for Canadian government and military V.I.P.s.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023
“Brewster McCloud” A salute to Robert Altman continues with the filmmaker’s darkly comic 1970 fable featuring Bud Cort as a young loner living in a fallout shelter beneath the Houston Astrodome.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2021
Returning to my most familiar places from the Before times was like crawling out of a fallout shelter and taking stock.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2021
“This must be the route to the old fallout shelter from the nineteen sixties,” said Grace.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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