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• When the animal sanctuary closed, the remaining unhomed dogs were released onto the streets.From the entry unhomed
• The baptismal is in the front of the sanctuary.From the entry baptismal
• The federal government called these locations “sanctuary jurisdictions,” alleging they were undermining the rule of law.2025 July 22, Connor N. Smith, Mason Brighton, “Louisville drops sanctuary city status after DOJ pressure”, in Spectrum News, archived…. From the entry municipality
• "It went before the council, and we unanimously agreed that Huntington Beach is not a sanctuary city.2025 May 30, Rebecca Santana and Jonathan Lloyd, “These California cities and counties are on the DHS list of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions'”…. From the entry burns
• A worker tends to a water buffalo at an animal sanctuary in Tainan’s Liuying District yesterday.2023 July 5, “Good news”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023, Taiwan News, page 3. From the entry Liuying
• The animal, which was named A-hua, was rescued by sanctuary personnel earlier this year.2023 July 5, “Good news”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023, Taiwan News, page 3. From the entry Liuying
• Sometimes the children marched into the sanctuary carrying flowers and offered those flowers as Bikkurim.2021, David Golinkin, “What is the Origin and History of the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Anat Helman, editor, No Small Matter Features of…. From the entry bikkurim
• Alone and gut-shot, Eddie staggers to a church, seeking sanctuary and salvation, but collapses on the steps.2011, Adam Shand, Big Shots: Inside Melbourne's Gangland Wars, →ISBN, page iii. From the entry gut-shot
• On the north side of the city, just outside the wall, the rupestral sanctuary of S.2007, Jennifer Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide, page 82. From the entry rupestral
• North of this main sanctuary stood a building known as the chief's sanctuary.2007, Stephen L. Dyson; Robert J. Rowland, Jr., Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages: Shepherds…. From the entry Nuragic
• And why are Shabbat and the sanctuary mentioned as contrasts to idol worship?2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 746. From the entry contrast
• But he has brought economic motivation into the privileged sanctuary of pastoral, courtly, and religious poetry.2000, Robert ter Horst, “Poetics and Economics in Luis de León”, in David Foster, Daniel Altamiranda, Carmen de Urioste, editor, Spanish…. From the entry privileged sanctuary
• The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.1984, Lawrence Starr, “Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess”, in American Music, volume 2, number 2, page 27. From the entry depict
• When building "platypusaries" in zoos and sanctuaries it is essential to ensure that man-made tunnels are tight-fitting.1974, Dal Stivens, The incredible egg: a billion year journey, page 354. From the entry platypusary
• Two wildlife sanctuaries extinguished another, longer held, appetite – to meet Australia’s fauna.1973 April 5, Dick Glovsky, “Brisbane: Calm, Quiet And Cuddly Koalas”, in The Newton Graphic, page two, column 2. From the entry pentacolored
• 'I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,' the Chief was saying.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword: The Turk Street Mile”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 2. From the entry ancient
• Many Civil War veterans haunt these still airs of literary sanctuaries.1925 April 12, Ed O’Malley, “Old Literary Masters Not Favored by Modern Book-Store Browsers”, in The Los Angeles Times, part II-a, section…. From the entry used-book store
• Sanctuary arrangements show strong parallels to other regulations in the leges concerning feud and the prosecution of theft.2018 October 18, Paul R. Hyams, Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry lex
• Only the vast stretches of Shanghai’s Eastern District— Hongkew, Yangtzsepoo, the Northern External Roads—offer the possibility of sanctuary.2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11. From the entry Hongkew
• Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary.2009, Susan Van Allen, “Churches Dedicated to Female Saints—Rome”, in 100 Places in Italy Every Woman should Go, Palo Alto, Calif.…. From the entry pipe
• The centralized hub provides weary catwalkers with a spacious rest area—and sanctuary from children and other loud noises.2009, Bob Walker, The Cats' House, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry catwalker
• In her sanctuary in El Cobre near Santiago, the skin tone of la Virgen is mulatto (a child of miscegeny).2008, Ivor L. Miller, “Religious Symbolism in Cuban Political Performance”, in TDR, volume 44, number 2, page 50. From the entry miscegeny
• The founding of the sanctuary at Braurona is related to the myths of Iphigenia and her brother, Orestes.2008, Allan Brooks, Myths, Games and Conflict, page 8. From the entry Iphigenia
• How can figures that seem so clearly taken from popular song serve a holy function in the sanctuary?2006, Michael Beckerman, “The Songs of Solomon (Rossi) as the Search for History Michael”, in George B[oyer] Stauffer, editor, The World…. From the entry celebratoriness
• The use of Manchuria as a "privileged sanctuary" by Communist aircraft led General MacArthur to request from the U.S.2002, Nicholas M Poúlantzas, The Right of Hot Pursuit in International Law, page 332. From the entry privileged sanctuary
• The tithe properly belongs to the Lord who, in turn, assigns it to the Levites as payments for their sanctuary labors.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 873. From the entry perquisite
• If Delphi was in fact medizing, why did the Persians attempt to take it and to plunder its sanctuary?1979, Hypomnemata: Untersuchungen zur Antike und ihrem Nachleben, Heft 55, Servants of the Gods: A Study in the Religion, History and…. From the entry medize
• The memory we Jews preserve in brine falls longer, coldlier cut than all the shadows across our sanctuaries in ruins.1947–1980, Robert Stock, “The Miracle of the Roses”, in David Galler, Harriette Stock, editors, Selected Poems (1947-1980), Chappaqua…. From the entry coldlier
• These he held aside, ushering her into a dark sanctuary resinously scented and thickly carpeted with pine needles.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 148. From the entry thickly
• He was an eisteddfodwr and delighted to hear good singing, whether it was in the sanctuary or at the eisteddfodic gatherings.1908, T.J. Griffths, The Cambrian, volume 28, page 504. From the entry delight
• After a lifetime in circus captivity, this elderly girl gets to live out the rest of her days at a bear sanctuary.2023 May 26, AJ Willingham, “5 things to know for May 26: Debt limit, White House, Abortion, Peru, Covid”, in CNN, archived from the…. From the entry scrungly
• The president is upset with congressional leaders for slow-rolling his core campaign promise, and for failing to defund sanctuary cities in their spending bill.2018 March 21, Elaina Plott, “Trump Vents His Anger Over Border-Wall Funding”, in The Atlantic. From the entry slow roll
• It does not help to point out parallels with the well-known terrace sanctuaries of Latium in the Late Republic (Praeneste, Gabii, Tivoli, Terracina).2013, Andreas J. M. Kropp, Images and Monuments of Near Eastern Dynasts, 100 bc–ad 100, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry cavea
• She sits on a bench carved with names—“Jenna + Christo 4eva”—by the entrance to the sanctuary and pulls her shoes back on.2013, Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN. From the entry 4eva
• His goal is to imbue his waterfront enclave with enough complexity to provide a distilled version of the great metropolis within this moated sanctuary.2008 March 3, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “City on the Gulf: Koolhaas Lays Out a Grand Urban Experiment in Dubai”, in New York Times. From the entry moated
• Haq told the privately owned Geo television network on Tuesday night that it had become a sanctuary for militants from other parts of the country.2007 July 12, Somini Sengupta, “After Mosque Battle, Musharraf’s Troubles Persist”, in New York Times. From the entry antivice

Meaning of sanctuary

1. noun A place of safety, refuge, or protection.
2. noun An area set aside for protection.
3. noun A state of being protected, asylum.

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How do you use sanctuary in a sentence?

Sanctuary is used as a noun. For example: “My car is a sanctuary, where none can disturb me except for people who cut me off.”

What is a short sentence with sanctuary?

“The baptismal is in the front of the sanctuary.”

What does sanctuary mean?

Sanctuary means a place of safety, refuge, or protection.