safe house

noun

: a place where one may engage in secret activities or take refuge

Examples of safe house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Each of the 10 safe house bedrooms have vibrant colors, and the shelter also includes a floral mural of peonies, roses, chrysanthemums and anemones. —Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2025

At the time, Polinsky was celebrated as a new beginning for child-protective services in San Diego County, a 24-hour safe house for the region’s most vulnerable youth. —Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 12 May 2025

Rosemary Sullivan, author of Villa Air-Bel, a chronicle of the safe house from which Max Ernst and other artists who had been persecuted by the Vichy regime would ultimately escape from France, describes the situation thus: In France in 1940 people soon learned how quickly everything could change. —Celia Bell july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025

Then frightening events begin to unfold at the safe house she’s been placed in. —John Hopewell, Variety, 14 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for safe house

• boardinghouse
• charterhouse
• clearinghouse
• coffeehouse
• customhouse
• firehouse
• meetinghouse
• motherhouse
• packinghouse
• pilothouse
• powerhouse
• slaughterhouse