last refuge
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of last resort.
Example Sentences
- "In societies without national insurance of any kind, almshouses are the last refuge of penniless people."
- "Though we don’t all reach nirvana when we swim, swimming may well be that last refuge from connectivity — and, for some, the only way to find the solitary self."
- "The coach is the last refuge of aerophobic bargain-hunters. The journey time from London to Florence is around 30hrs; the return full fare is around £115."
- "Crawford’s replacement in Sweet Charlotte was 48-year-old Olivia de Havilland, who had already been terrorised by home invaders in the surprisingly vicious Lady in a Cage (1964), though her career low point was probably being stung to death by killer bees in The Swarm (1978) as disaster movies replaced hagsploitation as the last refuge of the fading Hollywood star."