Synonym: asylum, haven, refuge. Similar words: sanction, sanctimonious, actual, actually, tincture, unctuous, fluctuate, fluctuation. Meaning: ['sæŋktʃʊərɪ /-erɪ] 
n. 1. a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept 2. a shelter from danger or hardship 3. area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing.
n. 1. a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept 2. a shelter from danger or hardship 3. area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing. 
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31. The sacred grove is our sanctuary, our temple.
32. Sarah and Jo Shallcross take sanctuary from the cold.
33. Now tell them firmly to leave your inner sanctuary.
34. The Church should be a sanctuary for the oppressed.
35. It was necessary, she told her persuasively, that she leave sanctuary for the time being.
36. Today, the site at Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands is a bird sanctuary.
37. The remarkable Black Virgin of Belloc has been transferred from her abandoned mountain sanctuary to the village church of Dorres.
38. Creusa, leaving her husband in the town with one of the priests, went on up to the sanctuary by herself.
39. The ball diamond was a sanctuary not to be broken into by philistines.
40. After a few hundred yards, he sought sanctuary in a nearby house.
41. Sanctuary appeal: Scarborough wildlife leader Jim Ward has launched an appeal to create a rescue centre.
42. A similar secret sanctuary for the president was constructed elsewhere in the mountains west of Washington.
43. Read in studio A wildlife sanctuary has appointed it's first resident artist.
44. The ossuary inside the sanctuary is square with a vaulted ceiling.
45. Rumour and the recent closure of a similar sanctuary in Hereford a week ago has given rise to closure fears.
46. This pool is being run to raise funds to buy a new carpet for the church sanctuary.
47. In the sanctuary we found Damien sprawled over the prie-dieu.
48. They fled with their father by ship to Argos, where they found sanctuary.
49. But after appearing on Central Television the sanctuary has been inundated with calls from people offering the animals a home.
50. For the most part, it is a unique and leafy sanctuary in the midst of a crowded[Sentencedict.com], increasingly urbanized peninsula.
51. The area was cleaned up by student volunteers and local scouts planted trees in parts of the Sanctuary.
52. It was then that the city pastors began asking their brethren in the mountain villages to organise sanctuary for the refugees.
53. It is used by fishermen and is designated a bird sanctuary.
54. Even if she left the dubious sanctuary of the car she had no clue to the best direction in which to seek help.
55. Geoff Boucher has been running this unofficial sanctuary for more than four years.
56. So school becomes a sanctuary, a haven of stability, hot food and teachers who care.
57. Most of the birds were pairs,(www.Sentencedict.com) and staff at the sanctuary say it's devastated the centre's breeding programme.
58. Would a person like Crevecoeur be so desperate as to seek sanctuary in such a place?
59. Where monks sat in quiet contemplation, guests now seek sanctuary from the city's bustle amid lush palms and ivy.
60. When the Conservation Department proposed the establishment of the sanctuary in its discussion document, the public response was overwhelmingly favourable.
More similar words: sanction, sanctimonious, actual, actually, tincture, unctuous, fluctuate, fluctuation, intellectual, intellectually, functionary, renaissance, malfeasance, reconnaissance, guard, square, quarry, quarrel, on guard, square up, quarter, vanguard, aquarium, sand, sank, quarantine, act up, mutual, ritual, quarterback.