sheltered

Example Sentences

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It was clear immediately that they’d found their shark-free Shangri-La: No predators, lots of food and no annoying ocean waves splashing the sheltered docks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

Khalil and Faraj got out of the car and sheltered in a nearby house.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Their rich, sheltered microclimates are home to mosses, lichens, fungi and ferns, with some species rarely found outside the remaining fragments of Cumbrian woodland.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

But, as she told Ritz, when she joined Jimmy Jam and Lewis in Minneapolis, she was coming out of a very sheltered life.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026

At the top was a wide space sheltered by the canopy leaves of all the trees that grew together for the big tree.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack