safe area


noun
  1. an area near a combat zone that is maintained as being free from military attack.

  • Also called safe haven.

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How to use safe area in a sentence

  • Perhaps, after all, it was the safe haven of respectability that Letty sought, at the end of a few adventurous years.

    The Wasted Generation | Owen Johnson
  • Ships wilt thou find there in plenty to carry thee into a safe haven.'

    Stories from the Ballads | Mary MacGregor
  • At sunset they saw an island named Sousa, toward which they steered, hoping to reach it by midnight and find a safe haven.

    Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa | Joel Tyler Headley and William Fletcher Johnson
  • She forged on, hurling aside each sea which barred her way, straight toward a safe haven through open water.

    The League of the Leopard | Harold Bindloss
  • She had been left at Assizes Harbour, usually an absolutely safe haven of rest.

    A Labrador Doctor | Wilfred Thomason Grenfell