refuge

Pastry-hunting tourists are ruining this Italian mountain refuge.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Apprehensive yet eager for human connection, she poignantly can’t find the courage to leave her refuge with a lover who passes through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Somehow, they have found refuge in a dilapidated row house with a working television, where their viewing includes nature shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The group was also able to find her family, who had made it to a camp where hundreds of thousands of people from el-Fasher have sought refuge.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feebleminded and only resort for historians.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Mobile home parks in Carson are among the last refuges of affordable housing for many residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

"In certain cases, these areas can function as perceived refuges," D'Souza explains.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, many cities have established "heat refuges", which are air-conditioned public buildings where anyone can go in and escape the worst of the weather.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

When the trees of the Singer Tract were at last clear-cut beginning in 1937, however, the wolves it had harbored were shot on sight, as they were when the leases of other refuges expired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

“People are homeless, they have been refuged to the mountains.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

Exults on hearing, from his man Will., that the lady has refuged herself at Hampstead.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson

Harold said as clearly as I speak now, and he refuged himself on Hugh’s sound shoulder, and stretched out, and lay all still.’

From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling

A hungry wolf had thinned the fold, Safely he refuged on the wold; And, as in den secure he lay, The thefts of night regaled his day.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay

Still, at the very bottom of her heart lay two thoughts in which her hope refuged itself.

From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

The long snug harbour of Mahon, which was in the days of canvas wings almost always filled with craft refuging, is now in this era of steam usually tenantless.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Debarred the healthier paths of life, man rushes for employment to the refuging muse; and rightly so, for he finds an employment ornamental and useful still.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay