How to Use safe house in a Sentence

safe house

noun
Definition of safe housenext
  • 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
  • He was taken to a safe house in Waukesha and given help to escape to Canada.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2024
  • When the Nyong’os moved back to Kenya, Anyang’ was subject to harassment and arrest, which forced the family to hide out in safe houses.
    — Yasmeen Hamadeh, Peoplemag, 29 June 2024
  • Ironically, the mansion was used as an Underground Railroad safe house after his death.
    — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 31 May 2024

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