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
• Around 50 scouts who have left the shelter participate in a virtual troop.
  — Sara Herschander, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 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
• By late April tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees were sheltering in a makeshift camp spread out about half a square mile in the Chadian border village of Koufroun.
  — Forbes, 3 May 2023
• If sheltering in place, your emergency kit should include supplies that will last up to two weeks.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024