Word Finder - sanctuary

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A place of safety, refuge or protection.

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My car is a sanctuary, where none can disturb me except for people who cut me off.

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An area set aside for protection.

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The bird sanctuary has strict restrictions on visitors so the birds aren't disturbed.

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A state of being protected, asylum.

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The government granted sanctuary to the defector, protecting him from his former government.

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The consecrated (or sacred) area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar.

He returned to the Sanctuary, to the Oracle, who was busy scribbling.

The heavy Caribbean air of the Sanctuary was warm and fragrant with the scent of the sea.

Unless you want to blow up my Sanctuary again?

They can find you on the Sanctuary, too.

Falling thirty stories onto the hard sand of the Sanctuary did nothing to help.

That would explain why the walls around the Sanctuary are in ruins.

They have almost all died unawares, sitting in the sanctuary they had guarded and which is now no more.

Her thoughts drifted to the Sanctuary, the only place she.d felt safe.

The animals would have a kind of sanctuary here.

I expected you to take me to a Sanctuary, not here.

I.m sending her back to the Sanctuary in the morning.

I.ll have you taken back to the Sanctuary tomorrow.

They crossed unimpeded through the portal and onto the island Sanctuary, one of four such sites bridging the mortal and immortal worlds.

In fact, I'd confine myself to a bank vault or a guru's mountain top sanctuary.

She spun at the voice, startled to see Mr. Checkmate, the man she'd met on the beach when she arrived at the Sanctuary the first time.

What exactly is a Sanctuary?

Even the Sanctuary didn't feel safe anymore.

He'd never been to a Sanctuary.

She left the Sanctuary one final time.

Last year the wildlife sanctuary rescued nine baboons, who also came from Northern Ireland.

The gates of the sanctuary screen were closed, the curtain was slowly drawn, and from behind it a soft mysterious voice pronounced some words.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the service, and not in the usual order Natasha knew so well, the deacon brought out a small stool, the one he knelt on when praying on Trinity Sunday, and placed it before the doors of the sanctuary screen.

Now my two treasures are secure behind me as I'm off to my wooded sanctuary.

A familiar face appeared from the words, the golden-skinned deity she nicknamed Mr. Checkmate the first time they met at the Immortal Sanctuary.

Trust me one last time and go to the Sanctuary.

Pushing himself away from the book that would reveal nothing he sought, he went to the small, square window overlooking the stone structure of the Sanctuary.

The Oracle had given him nothing, and he didn't feel able to sit still and drink tea with Daniela, the headmistress of the order of nuns who managed this Sanctuary.

He had a feeling the most difficult was the one hiding in the Sanctuary.

His gaze went to the Sanctuary.

He glared at it and strode into the well-lit courtyard of the Sanctuary.

Could she find her way back to the Sanctuary?

Her gaze flickered between it and the interior of the Sanctuary.

Gabriel's lover and master, the deity Death, materialized beside him at the Oracle's altar in the center of an ancient fortress in the Sanctuary.

Death took her human form out of respect for the women of the convent-like Sanctuary that housed the Oracle.

She pulled her arm away and returned to the Sanctuary.

An hour later, Katie stood in a similar-looking fortress several times the size of the Caribbean Sanctuary.

Yes, but I have to object to Immortal business being carried out in the Sanctuary.

It is not at all customary to how the Sanctuary is meant to be used, she said sternly.

Rhyn looked away from Jade and stepped back before he snapped and was banned eternally from the Sanctuary.

Beating his wings so hard they hurt, he rose into the sky and soared around the small island, finally spotting three lone figures in small valley not too far from the Sanctuary.

Darkyn fell as well, and the walls around the Sanctuary tumbled in the distance.

What happens to you after we get to the Sanctuary?

Rhyn approached the boundaries of his newest prison – the one meant to keep everyone else on the Caribbean Sanctuary safe from the magic he couldn't control.

He was far enough away from the Sanctuary's fortress not to cause a threat to those there, so long as the two people buffering him stayed close.

I'm converting a room at this Sanctuary into a lab, for when we find Ully.

Hannah held one of the lanterns donated to their exiled party by the Sanctuary.

Kris had opened it near the cliff.  On the other side of the world from the Caribbean Sanctuary, the French Alps were dark and cold, and it was sleeting.

Katie followed her instincts through the dreamscape until she climbed the last rocks and saw Rhyn curled in a ball just on the other side of a small ridge on the Sanctuary.

I thought we had to reach a Sanctuary.

Rhyn was alone on the island sanctuary in his dreams and awoke to the feeling that his magic had slipped even more from its binding.  His body was hot from the inside out despite the cold rain falling in the forest.  The fire had died overnight.  He pushed the waterproof cloak off him.