sheltered

Example Sentences

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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

They took me to see how the place had been reordered: the fragile mud houses that had sheltered our ancestors for centuries were gone, replaced by sturdy brick homes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

My parents sheltered me from many of the civil war images that surfaced on TV.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana