How to Use shelter in a Sentence

shelter

1 of 2 noun
  • They sought shelter from the storm.
  • The crowd ran for shelter when the rain started.
  • We made a shelter from branches.
  • The organization provides food and shelter for homeless people.
  • That’s about twice what those shelters were built to hold.
    Jim Gaines, ajc, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But few of the Chinese migrants are staying in the shelters.
    Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • After being rescued, the pups were brought back to the shelter to be fed and cleaned.
    Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The door to the space will be similar to those found in bomb shelters and filled with concrete.
    Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The shelter added that the mom and her newborns have found a rescue, but the other dogs still need a place to call home.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • This will come on top of the state’s pledge to fund a 2,000-bed shelter at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.
    Erin Nolan, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • And where the hiker was lost, there wasn’t any shelter, either.
    Natalie B. Compton, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • After months in a Georgia shelter, a beloved dog will get a new home — with an old friend.
    Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The Red Cross said 575 evacuees were spread across five shelters on Monday.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The fifth grader has visited the shelter for the past few months, making time to play with and for his canine friends.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • The state placed its first machine at a homeless shelter in Tulsa.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Ronald missed breakfast with the rest of the shelter, sitting by the window, tapping the same error messages.
    Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • That’s a plus, but the camp lacks proper shelter and sanitation, and food is scarce.
    Time, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The city keeps the locations of its migrant shelters undisclosed and hasn’t seen major protests.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In a congregate setting, like a shelter, this can mean quick spread.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The shelter provides a shuttle system that runs seven days a week.
    Charlotte Kramon, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • Whether to seek shelter has long been a matter of expertise and routine.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Many scrambled for shelter, while others ran for their lives.
    Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • Plowden chose to return to the shelter with her children — to hold out for someplace better.
    Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • During the day, people can go to any public library in the city for shelter, among other places around the District.
    Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • The shelter told me she had been seriously abused, but Will denied it.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • In the video, a tearful Cohen described how one woman was in a bomb shelter that was set on fire by the terrorists to force her out.
    Desiree Adib, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Folks need somewhere to be, there are shelter resistant folks.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Stripping out shelter, the core non-housing services index rose just 0.1% from the prior month.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 12 July 2023
  • Rising energy and shelter costs were the main drivers of the jump in headline inflation in March.
    Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • If finding indoor shelter is not an option: • Stay away from open fields, hill summits, or ridge tops.
    Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2024
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shelter

2 of 2 verb
  • A cave sheltered the climbers during the storm.
  • They sheltered in a cave while they waited for the storm to pass.
  • To him the place seemed perfect: Smoothed of any stones, it was sheltered as well from the wind.
    Homer, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • His son called to tell him about the active shooter and that he was sheltered in the break room at the store.
    Matt Meyer, CNN, 7 May 2023
  • Our tiny seaside world there felt sheltered from it all.
    Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • Schools in the area alerted parents that students and staff were sheltered in place.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The school had ordered its students to shelter in place amid reports of the shooting.
    Nichole Manna, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Here are fruit trees that sheltered us, shedding petals and forcing out new leaves.
    John Kinsella, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Myles and his mom Sarah are sheltered in a hotel just outside of Lahaina.
    Jacqueline Yoo, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Hundreds if not thousands, sheltered in place, waited a little while for the intense part of the storm to pass.
    The Enquirer, 9 May 2023
  • The injured and the dead had imagined that sheltering in a school would provide some safety.
    Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Lessing and his staff will oversee and provide services for those who shelter in the bus.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • Phoenix officials aren’t able to say how many of those people are still sheltered.
    Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Nour Abou Jameh was among the thousands sheltering at Nasser Hospital who were forced to leave in the past week.
    Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroue The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Sickness is spreading among the thousands of people sheltering at the school.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Blanchard wants to find a good balance between sheltering her kids too much and not enough.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In the upper South, plant them in places sheltered from winter wind and sun, or keep them in pots in cool greenhouses over winter.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Rafah is a nearly twenty-five-square-mile area, in which refugees from Gaza City and Khan Younis are now sheltering.
    Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Earlier in the day, attendees were asked to shelter in place before the singer took the stage at FedEx Field because of lightning and heavy rain.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Many civilians in Rafah are sheltering in rickety tents made of plastic and wood and say there is nowhere left in Gaza to avoid Israeli shelling.
    Michael Levenson, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Advertisement Singer’s memoir with recipes strikes just the right note for this strange time of sheltering in place.
    Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Two of Maram’s uncles, Naseem and Ramadan, who were born deaf and mute, have been sheltering there with their families.
    Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Visitors to the castle were told to shelter in place and the suspect was later arrested.
    Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • People at the Levee who ran and sheltered at the Beeline said the commotion started just before 7:30 p.m.
    Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Out of the legal battle, both sides came to a three-year agreement, allowing the church to shelter up to 30 adults each night from December through March.
    Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The town had been ordered to shelter in place while officers from a number of agencies including the FBI combed the forest.
    Colleen Slevin and Jesse Bedayn, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • More than 1 million Palestinians, many of them displaced from other parts of the enclave, are sheltering in the city.
    NBC News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Students and teachers were ordered to shelter in place for hours as a SWAT team combed the campus dormitories.
    Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The majority were sheltering in an underground root cellar in the back yard of another farmhouse.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The community, which sheltered trans-Atlantic air travelers whose planes were diverted after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, is the near the end of the eclipse’s path but may have to settle for the simulation.
    Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024

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