Sentences with shelter
shel·ter
S s - The city's bomb shelters were being prepared for possible air raids.
- The number of families seeking shelter rose by 17 percent.
- Shelter implies the protection of something that covers, as a roof or other structure that shields one from the elements or danger [to find shelter from the rain]; refuge suggests a place of safety that one flees to in escaping danger or difficulties [he sought political refuge in France]; retreat implies retirement from that which threatens one's peace, and withdrawal to a safe, quiet, or secluded place [a country retreat]; asylum is applied to a refuge where one is immune from seizure or harm, as because it is beyond a particular legal jurisdiction [the convict sought asylum abroad]; a sanctuary is an asylum that has a sacred or inviolable character [the former right of sanctuary in churches]
- ...a shelter for homeless women. [+ for]
- ...a man sheltering in a doorway. [VERB preposition/adverb]
- ...a wooden house, sheltered by a low pointed roof. [VERB-ed]
- A neighbor sheltered the boy for seven days. [VERB noun]
- He took shelter in a nearby barn.
- Everyone's basic needs are food, clothing, and shelter.
- The old barn sheltered him from the rain.
- Parents should not try to shelter their children from normal childhood disappointments.
- He sheltered in a barn.