sheltered
Example Sentences
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That meant you could lock your money up for the long run in such potentially high-yielding assets as commercial real estate or private lending, sheltered from the upsetting fluctuations of public financial markets.
Most in attendance were elderly women, whom Davis affectionately calls “holler grannies,” using the term for the narrow, sheltered valleys where extended families often live here.
What appears to be an idyllic community is in fact a hidden bunker where the elite have sheltered since a global disaster had ended life as we know it.
From Los Angeles Times
"We did feel very behind the other children at school because we had a somewhat sheltered life."
From BBC
People in his village sheltered atop a local two-storey fish market to escape the deluge and were now trying to clean the mud and debris left behind while battling power and telecommunications outages.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
