[
US
/ˈɹɛfjudʒ/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɛfjuːdʒ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛfjuːdʒ/ ]
NOUN
-
a safe place
He ran to safety -
act of turning to for assistance
an appeal to his uncle was his last resort
have recourse to the courts -
something or someone turned to for assistance or security
his only recourse was the police
took refuge in lying - a shelter from danger or hardship
How To Use refuge In A Sentence
- The judge invoked an international law that protects refugees.
- They all had paths going their way and signposts pointing to the city of refuge. Christianity Today
- Some might say the club have taken refuge in recent years in the rosy glow of their triumph of 1967 so they might be as well moving permanently to the Portuguese capital.
- Would they give one up to house a refugee family? The Sun
- I go back now and the dialect of the old residents is noticeably absent, replaced by the faux scouse of the Liverpudlian refugees.
- The first two British charter jets picked up 413 refugees last night. The Sun
- Our foreign correspondent reports that conditions in the refugee camps are filthy and overcrowded.
- The latter, after his defeat by Bayezid, sought refuge at Rhodes under a safe-conduct from the Grand Master and the General Convent of the Order.
- Public housing has been transformed into an ever-diminishing refuge of last resort.
- Within the unalterable waves of change, we can never find any enduring refuge or freedom.
