How to Use safe house in a Sentence

safe house

noun
  • Agents took her to a safe house.
    — Katrina Kaufman, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But then, from the safe house, the radio chirped.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Smugglers held her against her will at a safe house for a month.
    — Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The duo run a secret safe house in Berlin.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The friends and co-workers survive the night at the safe house.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
  • That’s where the Russians are, in a safe house not far from here.
    — John Kenney, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • There's an exhibit called the safe house, which is a mock-up home.
    — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Delta Force trained for his capture using a mock safe house.
    — Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The three men in the safe house and another gunman were killed.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • At the same time, more of Richie's heavies arrive at the safe house.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 1 June 2025
  • When they were done, the FBI placed Williams in a safe house.
    — Jason Dearen, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • 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
  • If nothing else, why not send the Handmaids on to the next safe house and join them there?
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Never Let Go brings a whole new meaning to the term safe house.
    — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 16 May 2024
  • The scale model of the terrorist’s safe house is in the box on the table.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Outside the windows of the safe house, the sky began to darken.
    — Emanuele Satolli, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The three men arrive at their next safe house, a rebel-soldier encampment.
    — Sarene Leeds, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
  • This safe house will become a home for as many as 14 women and their children.
    — Allie Torgan, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
  • After all, his face is all over social media, and the safe house isn’t hard to locate.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 16 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The next day, Morales tweeted a photograph of himself in a safe house.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The home was likely used as a safe house for enslaved people fleeing the South.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Of course, Red finds a way to get to Andrew by kidnapping him from the safe house.
    — Laura Sirikul, EW.com, 9 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • And when the Saudi crown prince came to Houston, Steuart’s firm set up his safe house.
    — Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2022

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