How to use "refuge" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "refuge" in popular movie and book plots

  • Pike's men cross the Rio Grande and take refuge that night in the village where Angel was born.  - The Wild Bunch
  • At last Hidetora takes refuge in the Third Castle, abandoned after Saburo's forces followed their lord into exile.  - Ran (film)
  • Taking refuge from a storm in a cave, Vandergroat manipulates Lina into distracting Kemp.  - The Naked Spur
  • Pregnant, she lost her job and had to give birth in a refuge for the indigent.  - Letter from an Unknown Woman
  • A Culture Mind, fleeing the destruction of its ship in an Idiran ambush, takes refuge on Schar's World.  - Consider Phlebas
  • After Catherine's funeral, Isabella leaves Heathcliff, takes refuge in the South of England and gives birth to a son, Linton.  - Wuthering Heights
  • Shortly thereafter, Nettie runs away from Alphonso and takes refuge at Celie's house, where Mister makes sexual advances toward her.  - The Color Purple
  • Blanche and Stella take refuge with the upstairs neighbor, Eunice.  - A Streetcar Named Desire
  • They manage to escape and find refuge on a nearby island off the coast of Norway, but the fate of Nautilus is unknown.  - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • Kyle and Sarah escape, steal another car and take refuge in a motel, where they assemble pipe bombs and plan their next move.  - The Terminator
  • They sought refuge after a group of the same monsters overturned their car.  - Night of the Living Dead
  • Strider fights off the Black Riders with fire and leads the hobbits towards the Elven refuge of Rivendell.  - The Lord of the Rings
  • Also returning from the Holy Land that same night, Isaac of York, a Jewish moneylender, seeks refuge at Rotherwood.  - Ivanhoe
  • Lucilla is forced to land on Gammu where she seeks refuge with an underground group of Jews.  - Chapterhouse: Dune
  • They decide to seek refuge in Willows House, which is supposedly abandoned and haunted.  - Bride of the Monster
  • (“I've Got You to Lean On”) A mob quickly forms outside the hotel, and Hapgood and Fay, still disguised, take refuge under the rock.  - Anyone Can Whistle

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