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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181. Hermit Ibis looks at a fake bird on a keeper's hat at an Ibis sanctuary near Barbate de Franco, Spain.
182. In the traditional orientation of some Christian churches, the south side of a chancel or sanctuary when the altar or Eucharistic table faces east.
183. As for birds, Herzog's acres seemed to have become a sanctuary.
184. Every year, thousands of loggerhead sea turtles hatch on the beaches of Florida and flap desperately toward the sanctuary of the surf.
185. And there came out of the sanctuary a woman whose name was Almitra. And she was a seeress. Sentencedict.com
186. Getting there was difficult and dangerous, but the room itself was sanctuary.
187. When you enter the temple from Hongyaemun, you can see black bamboo trees and tiled earthen walls on either side of the sanctuary.
188. Mitchell expedition , formerly manager of the Channel Islands sanctuary and a captain in the NOAA Corps.
189. If I want some peace and quiet, I take sanctuary in my study.
190. In May, she escaped to Tunisia with the help of a defecting military officer and Libyan rebels, and found temporary sanctuary in Qatar before being deported back to Benghazi in Libya in early June.
191. The researchers studied greater flamingos and birds section in a bird sanctuary in southern Spain, they.
192. Now, if you look on your handout, there's a reconstruction of this tent-like sanctuary at the top as well as a schematization of its contents below.
193. The gator is traveling from New York to Florida where he'll spend his days in a reptile sanctuary.
194. An ornithologist named Mark Anderson oversaw construction of the island in 2006 as a sanctuary for the birds.
195. A friend dubbed it "The Sanctuary" and the name stuck.
196. A hawksbill turtle glides just above the floor of a marine sanctuary near Saba, Netherlands Antilles.
197. Thousands of sandhill cranes roost on the Platte River during their annual migratory stopover at the Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon, Nebraska.
198. The research started researchers studied greater flamingos and in a bird sanctuary in southern Spain.
199. Q: Since China is a peace-loving country, are you willing to provide sanctuary to Saddam?
200. In a town that can be very frightening to the foreigner the Zulu Nyala was a sanctuary in every way.
201. The marine sanctuary on Tria Island was established to protect certain marine mammals.
202. Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
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