safe house
a dwelling or building whose conventional appearance makes it a safe or inconspicuous place for hiding, taking refuge, or carrying on clandestine activities.
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How to use safe house in a sentence
While she waits in a safe house in Kabul, a 30-minute walk to the airport, I have contacted every lead possible to get her on a flight out.
‘Last Chance to Leave’: The Fight to Get One Woman Out of Afghanistan | Diana Falzone | August 26, 2021 | The Daily BeastEven though I’m staying in my safe house, actually I’m not safe.
‘I Can Get Killed.’ A Leading Activist Talks About Her Role in the Fight Against Myanmar's Junta | Aria Chen | March 23, 2021 | TimeThey were rescued and extracted by the network and were being held in a safe house while the work was being done with foreign partners to try and get them out.
I spent nights full of terror inside those safe houses, when rumors were flying about people who might have been seen, locations that might have been revealed, dangers that might have been heightened – I felt that with them.
He had people helping him find these safe houses or whatever.
New Eyewitness Accounts: Feds Didn’t Identify Themselves Before Opening Fire on Portland Antifa Suspect | by Bryan Denson for ProPublica and Conrad Wilson, Oregon Public Broadcasting | October 13, 2020 | ProPublica
The year before that Alfredo had been taken alive in a police raid on a safe house in Culiacán.
There, Artichoke interrogation experiments were taking place at a safe house called Haus Waldorf.
What Cold War CIA Interrogators Learned from the Nazis | Annie Jacobsen | February 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen Richie showed up, they told him the money was in an apartment a few doors down that the gang used as a safe house.
From a safe house it had set up earlier in Abbottabad, the CIA continued to watch the compound.
How Obama Got Bin Laden: A Detailed Account From ‘Showdown’ by David Corn | David Corn | April 29, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTOn Friday, public-security agents detained He Peirong, an activist who drove him from his village to a safe house.
Chen Guangcheng’s Escape Could Cause Breakdown of U.S. Relations With China | Dan Levin | April 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSo far as I could learn, the Stopfords had given no ornaments to state or church, but theirs was pre-eminently a safe house.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 | VariousBut she thinks only of the sailors drowning, and gnashing their teeth for hate of the "warm safe house."
Browning's Heroines | Ethel Colburn MayneShe generally regards the school as a safe house of detention, a sort of day nursery of larger growth.
Little Aliens | Myra KellyEmma wanted to bribe her servant with a present, but it would be better to find some safe house at Yonville.
Madame Bovary | Gustave FlaubertAll the officers, who have pledged themselves to assist my undertaking, are concealed in a safe house rented for this purpose.
Frederick The Great and His Family | L. Muhlbach
British Dictionary definitions for safe house
a place used secretly by undercover agents, terrorists, etc, as a meeting place or refuge
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