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bomb shelter
noun
- a room or area, usually underground, especially reinforced against the effects of bombs, used as a shelter during an air raid.
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Example Sentences
The bomb shelter is still here, now home to a washing machine and a fridge.
Her younger sister Judy would be up like a shot, bounding down the stairs to the bomb shelter.
Every night for about a month after he would return in dreams to the moment he emerged in shock from a basement bomb shelter at the primary care facility in the northwest Syrian city of Jarjanaz.
He and his colleagues rushed the infants to a basement bomb shelter.
My old building has no bomb shelter, so we sat under the stairs.
Then we thought a few rockets a year would be unpleasant but manageable—we have a bona fide bomb shelter off of our kitchen.
Or make the blighters hide in some bomb shelter where we can't find them!
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