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.
• But a shelter isn’t a warm home.
  — Tj MacIas, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025
• Michael said the street is safer than a shelter.
  — Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
• Meet at the bus shelter in the parking lot.
  — Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
• All hikes meet at the bus shelter in the parking lot.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
• Now these children will have to go to shelters.
  — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2025
• The room they're housed in now at the shelter is quiet.
  — Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
• That could put shelters on the chopping block.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
• Refugees waiting in camps for food and shelter.
  — Sarah Al Asmar, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026
• Pets will be allowed at the shelter.
  — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 25 Feb. 2026
• Find a list of winter shelters here.
  — Cutter Martin, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
• But no one died; the local team had bomb shelters at the ready.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
• Plant in rich, well-draining soil with some shelter from wind.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
• As a result, shelter space was scarce.
  — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
• Some sites are equipped with overhead shelters.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2026
• There's shelters, there's places all the time giving away dogs.
  — Andrew Ramos, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
• Both ponds are a short walk from the splash park with one right next to the park's shelter.
  — Gillian Stawiszynski, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2025
• The fear of losing means for food, shelter, and health care is the point.
  — Stephanie Land, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
• The goal is to help 400 area pets in shelters find new homes.
  — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2026
• Rae says problems at past shelters have long been resolved.
  — Amber Gaudet, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
• Many scrambled for shelter, while others ran for their lives.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• If no shelter is available avoid trees, power lines, and the side of the road.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
• And where the hiker was lost, there wasn’t any shelter, either.
  — Natalie B. Compton, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Satchi, a male, was hours from euthanasia at shelter.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
• For shelter staff, the wait has been emotional.
  — Caroline Foreback, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
• Survival isn’t only just food and shelter.
  — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
• Where to seek shelter at home should a tornado threaten the area.
  — Vytas Reid, CBS News, 9 June 2026

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.
• But they can also be used to shelter you.
  — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 15 Mar. 2026
• Many are sheltering in their homes, he was told.
  — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
• Others were told to shelter in place.
  — Nick Lentz, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
• That’s a lot of income to shelter!
  — Kristin McKenna, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Her oldest, in first grade, sheltered at school.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2026
• School asked to shelter in place as a precaution.
  — Jose Fabian, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
• Here are fruit trees that sheltered us, shedding petals and forcing out new leaves.
  — John Kinsella, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Seek a safe place to shelter, preferably indoors.
  — Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
• Some homes are designed to shelter a family from the land.
  — Nick Mafi, Architectural Digest, 29 Apr. 2026
• Some families were stocking up on food to shelter in place.
  — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
• Please continue to shelter in place until there is an all clear.
  — Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
• 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
• People forced from their homes were being sheltered in a local school.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 11 Mar. 2026
• Schools in the area alerted parents that students and staff were sheltered in place.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
• Phoenix officials aren’t able to say how many of those people are still sheltered.
  — Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
• She and other customers sheltered in the store’s bathroom when the storm hit.
  — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
• Outdoors, choose a spot that’s sheltered from wind and receives morning sun.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
• Thousands of people who have lost their homes are sheltering in schools, parks, and makeshift camps.
  — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Rain pushes the weeds higher, then shelters them on turf too soft for the machines meant to clip them.
  — CBS News, 1 May 2026
• Mulch that is too close to the trunk can create a moist breeding ground where fungus can grow and pests shelter.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
• The Kings also try to shelter him with a lot of offensive zone starts.
  — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
• Others said there was no food at the schools and facilities used to shelter them.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
• Do not shelter under a tree or use a cliff or rocky overhang, the weather service warns.
  — Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
• Lessing and his staff will oversee and provide services for those who shelter in the bus.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
• The school had ordered its students to shelter in place amid reports of the shooting.
  — Nichole Manna, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
• As of right now, production is down and workers are sheltering in the plant.
  — Keisha Rowe, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
• Japanese maples do best when sheltered from wind and the hottest rays of the afternoon sun.
  — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
• Blanchard wants to find a good balance between sheltering her kids too much and not enough.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024