Definition of "sanctuaries" [sanctuaries]

• Plural form of sanctuary. (noun)

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• "The town of El Rosario, where one of the main sanctuaries is located, has been asked to evacuate and residents are fleeing in whatever ways possible."
• "The town of Angangueo, the jumping-off place for many tours of the monarch butterfly sanctuaries, is destroyed."
• "Because I truly believe in an increasingly secular age in which there are so few sanctuaries from the stress of getting and spending, so few prophets to summon us up to higher selves and lend some understanding to our lives."