How to Use safe house in a Sentence
safe house
noun-
When they were done, the FBI placed Williams in a safe house.
— Jason Dearen, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021 -
On the evening of March 11, the mob forcibly entered the jail, freed Glover and took him to a safe house in Waukesha.
— Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2020 -
What kind of person runs a safe house in Gilead, June asks.
— Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2018 -
The scale model of the terrorist’s safe house is in the box on the table.
— Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022 -
If not, they would be tossed out of the safe house, left to the seething violence of Reynosa.
— Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2019 -
Smugglers held her against her will at a safe house for a month.
— Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 3 Jan. 2023 -
For $3,000, the first smuggler would take the couple from a nearby safe house to the Rio Grande.
— Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 21 June 2018 -
If nothing else, why not send the Handmaids on to the next safe house and join them there?
— Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021 -
The three men in the safe house and another gunman were killed.
— Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023 -
Outside the windows of the safe house, the sky began to darken.
— Emanuele Satolli, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019 -
Never Let Go brings a whole new meaning to the term safe house.
— Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 16 May 2024 -
There's an exhibit called the safe house, which is a mock-up home.
— Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2020 -
And when the Saudi crown prince came to Houston, Steuart’s firm set up his safe house.
— Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2022 -
For $4,000 more, the second smuggler would take them from the river to a safe house in McAllen, Tex.
— Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 21 June 2018 -
Of course, Red finds a way to get to Andrew by kidnapping him from the safe house.
— Laura Sirikul, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2022 -
Eichmann was held in a safe house for nine days until the group flew out in an El Al plane.
— Aron Heller, Fox News, 1 May 2018 -
They're currently being held in a safe house and one of the kids is as young as eight months old.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2021 -
The Asadis then went into hiding at a safe house in Kabul.
— New York Times, 3 June 2021 -
Four more armed men jumped in the back and took them to a safe house close by, his daughter recounted.
— Ingrid Arnesen, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021 -
They were driven to a safe house a short distance from al-Hol to wait for the next smuggler to pick them up.
— Isabel Coles, WSJ, 9 June 2021 -
My uncle lasted seven months, most of it on the run, darting from one safe house to the next.
— Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023 -
The next day, Morales tweeted a photograph of himself in a safe house.
— Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020 -
At the safe house a few days later, the large house rang out with the shrieks and laughter of small children, all under age 6.
— New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021 -
This safe house will become a home for as many as 14 women and their children.
— Allie Torgan, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020 -
Each day before dusk, they are escorted to a safe house and don’t leave except to return the next day to the site.
— MarÍa Verza, ajc, 28 Feb. 2022 -
Back in Canada, Crisp called the woman, who helped her plan an escape to a safe house in Colorado.
— Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 20 Jan. 2022 -
After all, his face is all over social media, and the safe house isn’t hard to locate.
— Liza Lentini, SPIN, 16 June 2022 -
Should there be a grass-roots movement to take back American science, this could be the safe house.
— Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018 -
But after Butcher invades their safe house and kills Neuman, Hughie ends the episode kidnapped by Vought forces.
— Rendy Jones, EW.com, 19 July 2024 -
Doll is held at a remote safe house owned by a man who is mourning his deceased mother, while Doll’s girlfriend frantically searches for him.
— The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
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