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Definition of sanctuary:

  • (noun) a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept
  • (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship
  • (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing

Sentence Examples:

The sanctuary cities show a higher idea of justice.

Especially prominent were hymns in praise of the sanctuary.

Once they witnessed even a ball in this sanctuary.

Has he approached the sanctuary of religion with awe?

Dare you violate the rights of the blessed sanctuary?

He spent half an hour in reaching the sanctuary.

In 1697 whatever privileges of sanctuary remained were abolished.

The sanctuary became the scene of an unequal combat.

They seem to invade the very sanctuary of happiness.

He was like a fugitive who had found sanctuary.

This was the sanctuary of the dread deity.

It is as absurd as our old law of sanctuary.

The sanctuary which Micah erected harbored various idols.

A lone deer seems to make this spot a sanctuary.

I availed myself of this pause to examine the sanctuary.

It is a kind of sanctuary and a police patrol.

The lamp of the sanctuary light was red.

Hunted down, she claims sanctuary in the household.

Within and without, the sanctuary gleamed pure white.

They even secured new seats and sanctuary carpet.

Outside, it looks more like a fortress than a sanctuary.

It looked as if he had found an ill-boding sanctuary.

The sanctuary was cleansed of its disgusting impurities.

The seven veils of the sanctuary lift there.

Benches cut in the rock surround the sanctuary.

There was but one sure passport to her sanctuary.

If he is in sanctuary let him also be in peace.

He has a new man on the bird sanctuary.

Is there then no sanctuary for such a mind?

Let the demon no longer hide in the sanctuary.

She realized that her sanctuary was none too secure.

Balling his fists, he started to leave the sanctuary.

There were other terms, none of them suggesting sanctuary.

The whole house was a shrine and a sanctuary.

He will be found nowhere but in those sanctuaries.

He knows where I was bent on seeking sanctuary.

Effect of benefit of clergy and privilege of sanctuary.

This must have acted the part of a sanctuary.

With a sigh of regret we left the sanctuary.

These closed in the town and made a sanctuary.

There was only sanctuary for one at a time.

What will become of virgins devoted to the sanctuary?

You are assembled now within the sanctuary of religion.

It was the entrance to the sanctuary of Wisdom.

I entered it from the sanctuary to the west.

Possibly Constantine laid the foundations of the famous sanctuary.

There was no other sanctuary so good for him.

Those in the sanctuary by Giotto are particularly fine.

Something in me knew I was heading for sanctuary.

Human nature is hunted and has fled into sanctuary.

Assailants of students were not to have benefit of sanctuary.

There was neither shrine nor sanctuary any longer.

For me the honor of women is like a sanctuary.

Come what may, it abides in that sanctuary of strength.

The incense-cloud ascends, and penetrates the inner sanctuary.

Just at the last he looked up into the sanctuary.

And it was free of the ritual of the sanctuaries.

Shadowy forms seemed to be moving about in the sanctuaries.

Storm was without, and calm within the sanctuary.

Here we built a home which has been my sanctuary.

We are seated in the very sanctuary of the Yosemite.

As the sun arose in radiance he reached the sanctuary.

His room had about it the atmosphere of a sanctuary.

Others might respect that sanctuary, but not he!

Amos had become a well-known figure at all the sanctuaries.

The principal enactment referred to the right of sanctuary.

Do not profane Diana's sanctuary with rage and blood.

It never reached its appointed place in the sanctuary.

The place on the red rock became her sanctuary.

Then the cleansing of the sanctuary was to begin.

The bell rings that calls me to the sanctuary.

"The man declares he is pursued, and demands sanctuary."

This heart is the sanctuary of the Holy Ghost.

Often, these states may become a sanctuary for terrorism.

Deny terrorists the support and sanctuary of rogue states.

Before these sanctuaries stood the dreadful stone of sacrifice.

Patriotism and philosophy had here taken up their sanctuary.

He shrank from giving her entrance into his sanctuaries.

No one was ever allowed to remain alone in his sanctuary.

The doors leading to the inner sanctuary were open.

She was close in her attendance at the sanctuary.

Let these things be placed outside my sanctuary door.

Haggard's heart, is a sanctuary for all wild things.

In the sanctuary there is to be a fountain of blood.

The claims of the sanctuary must be provided for.

Other examples of the exclusion of horses from sanctuaries.

The sanctuary was then thrown open to the multitude.

How could pride exist in this sanctuary of beauty?

The domestic hearth is no longer the household sanctuary.

The Observatory grounds were a sanctuary for wild life.

Angelo was sometimes their sanctuary, sometimes their prison house.

Friendly hands assist her into the sanctuary of rest.

Several sanctuaries north of the Tweed were specially famous.

Not always, however, were the rights of sanctuary respected.

John of Beverley, both had large privileges of sanctuary.

It is the sanctuary where all things find refuge.

I shall expect you on Monday at eleven in our sanctuary.

That place had been a kind of sanctuary to me.

If he entered the sanctuary his coming would be violation.

Traces of columns enable us to reconstruct this sanctuary richly.