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How to use shelter in a sentence

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They have to catch and prepare their own food, light a fire without matches and build a shelter.
Their problems are more complicated than hunger or lack of shelter, and that means they need real live people helping them out.
There is also an Edwardian greenhouse, potting shed, garage and an air-raid shelter.
The prisoners were made to reinforce the cellar with concrete so it could serve as an air-raid shelter.
These trees will help to provide shelter and food for birds including the rare black grouse.
After being bundled into the air-raid shelter, we could hear the drone of aircraft passing over-head, on their way to bomb Belfast ship-yards.
She points down to a stream of gasoline flowing out from underneath the car they've taken shelter behind.
He said the tin sheets are a temporary windbreak to shelter new fir tree saplings, planted to replace trees mysteriously felled a few weeks ago.
It's not just about bus shelter adverts and nice shelves in the supermarket.
The only other protection against the elements was a 2ft high wall at the back of the shelter.
A curtain has been fixed at the eastern end of the shelter as a protection against the driving wind and rain.
When mist fills the Himalayan valleys and heavy monsoon rain sweeps across the hills, it is natural for the wild creatures to seek shelter.
The vessel has a forward offset wheelhouse extended to shelter the hauling area.
Stranded in a tiny village without amenities, he eagerly accepts an offer of shelter in a local abode.
When night falls, it becomes extremely foggy, so they take shelter in a cove.
We never wintered cattle there because of its remoteness and lack of shelter.
That night they camped in a natural shelter beneath a jut of the cliff, placing the cart and the fire between themselves and the forest.
This was sounded whenever German planes passed over the coastline to give us and our air-raid wardens time to go to the basement for shelter.
A communal air-raid shelter had been dug outside the Eleventh Earl public house.
Within the core CPI, shelter costs are accelerating at an alarming rate, rising 0.5 percent in May and June.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But as to caving in to Crofter as the cost of my shelter, they drew the line at that.
In one abri that night, a shelter in a great station, nearly a hundred died.
I have not seen the butterfly for many weeks, but among the stalks of chelone I find the webs which shelter its children.
McGuffey was willing so they left the bulkhead for the more convivial shelter of the bowhead saloon.
Then the eyes roamed about the campong to rest at last upon the slanting roof of the thatched shed which was its shelter.
Had we all the caribbees, it is true, they would in those parts be without shelter.
The first consideration in preparing for composting, is to provide proper shelter.
Envy would conceal herself under the shadow and shelter of contemptuousness, but she swells too huge for the den she creeps into.
Kindly villagers, remembering the Dacca drug-vendor of two months ago, give him shelter against evil spirits of the wood.
For, if he could get shelter for three days, the hue and cry would subside.
Hardly in Wythburn was there any one so poor as to covet such shelter for a home.
Next he looked about him for some shelter from the scorching and crazing sunshine.
Barbara and her toast emerged from its shelter as innocent of behind-the-scenes as any bit of pretty play or pageant.
The schooner had stayed on cashes Banks and had ridden out a gale that had driven other fishermen to shelter.
But the manager of the film corporation waited to see the motor-yacht inside the shelter of beach plum Point.
Jack and Jimmie found shelter in one of the false channels or cut-offs that had now begun to be frequent sights along the way.
Will you stay under shelter a few minutes yet, and see whether it abates?
Outside of this, again, may be an abri or shelter of overhanging rock.
But the Holy Laws no longer needed the safe shelter of a royal shrine.
By the time he had gained the shelter a dozen apaches were firing at him.
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