| Example in Catalan | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Encara que els xiquets es van refugiar en el cementiri a mitjan camí del temple, van ser blanc del foc de metralladores i no van poder arribar al temple. | Although the children took shelter in a graveyard halfway to the temple, they were still hunted by machine gun fire and could not get to the temple itself. |
| Ens vam refugiar en una cuneta i vaig dir al meu germà i la meua germana que es taparen els oïts amb els polzes i els ulls amb els dits i que es tombaren. | We took shelter in a ditch, and I made by brother and sister plug their ears with their thumbs, cover their eyes with their fingers and lie face down. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | لاذ | English | shelter |
| Esperanto | rifuĝi,ŝirmi | Faroese | líva |
| French | abriter | Hebrew | חסה |
| Icelandic | skýla | Indonesian | berlindung, bernaung |
| Lithuanian | priglausti | Polish | schronić |
| Portuguese | asilar, refugiar | Russian | приютить, укрывать |
| Spanish | cobijarse, guarecerse, refugiar | Thai | กำบัง, อาวรณ์ |
| Turkish | barınmak | Vietnamese | che chở, trú chân |