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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121. At the far end, in the tiny chancel, the sanctuary light glowed.
122. Only I know which carved wooden panel to press to release the catch and allow me into the sanctuary of my past.
123. In the sanctuary a huge swath of burlap obscured the cross of glory.
124. On his way back he made a diversion and called in at Crosthwaite Church to let the cool sanctuary complete his cure.
125. At the wildlife sanctuary in Caerlaverock you can see natterjack toads, and in winter flocks of geese arrive.
126. A wildlife sanctuary is releasing eight of the animals into a special protected set.
127. The sheer size of the sanctuary represented Mount Meru, the mythical Olympus on which the gods were believed to live.
128. Nearby is the Heritage Museum of local history and the Wildfowl Trust bird sanctuary.
129. Cats and cat statues were worshipped, and mummified cats were buried with much ceremony in the goddess' sanctuary at Bubastis.
130. Yet the home is regarded as a private sanctuary and conditions in the home are largely outside the law.
131. I genuflected before the winking sanctuary lamp and concealed myself in one of the side chapels.
132. Her legs seemed too weak to carry her back upstairs to the sanctuary of her turret room.
133. We walked down the dark, dingy nave under the simple rood screen into the sanctuary.
134. They Prince was forced to take sanctuary at Westminster.
135. In a side sanctuary tucked away back main show.
136. The sanctuary lamp and the metal furniture were bronze.
137. The escaped prisoner found sanctuary in the temple.
138. CHI SPA, a sanctuary of tranquillity.
139. I don't frequent that sanctuary, but he does.
140. Just outside the sanctuary, water flowed into a Baptismal pool.
141. Her priests profane the sanctuary and do violence to the law.
142. The researchers studied greater flamingos in a bird sanctuary in southern Spain.
143. The Mara is Kenya's most famous and finest game sanctuary.
144. As a place of sanctuary it is pretty bleak. The camp is nothing more than a bunch of decrepit and disused mud huts on the edge of a baking hot, dusty plain.
145. With his assistance, I obtained admission to that sanctuary, too.
146. Belarus's Alyaksandr Lukashenka , naturally sympathetic to the plight of a fellow post - Soviet strongman, offered him sanctuary.
147. Blessing and benefaction flow from God's presence in the midst of the community in his sanctuary: when he is there,(http://sentencedict.com/sanctuary.html) there is blessing.
148. Chai Nat is famous for its bird, they claimed to have the biggest bird sanctuary in SE Asia.
149. Elephants in zoos and circuses are typically moved with a tool called an ankus, a nasty-looking wooden shaft with a metal hook protruding from the top. It's banned at the sanctuary.
150. Tabor re - appears in history no more as a stone quarry but as a pagan sanctuary.
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.