While it may be impossible to avoid many germs outside the home, you can take steps to create a relative haven inside.

The US dollar and Japanese yen are still relative safe havens.

Several neighbors described the solid, six-story apartment building where they lived, at 631 West 152d Street, as a relative haven in the neighborhood.

Riker couldn't stop coughing as he staggered back to the relative haven of Chardrai's no-longer-sealed office.

She did her best, and the two of them limped toward the relative haven of the woods.

The local phone business, meanwhile, has remained a relative haven.

The peacekeepers have kept Monrovia a relative safe haven.

To him, O'Hare was a relative haven of tranquillity.

That is new for areas that had been relative havens before.

By contrast, much of the hedge fund industry's new sales came after the first quarter when the industry looked like a relative haven.