Synonym: cover, defend, guard, harbor, hide, protect, screen, shield. Similar words: svelte, alter, filter, filtering, alternative, helicopter, melt, belt. Meaning: ['ʃeltə(r)] n. 1. a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger 2. protective covering that provides protection from the weather 3. the condition of being protected 4. a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings 5. temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons. v. 1. provide shelter for 2. invest (money) so that it is not taxable.
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121. The cottage, which was regularly to shelter four or five inhabitants together with frequent guests, was a tiny building.
122. That would afford him some shelter from some creditors but would not discharge these damage awards.
123. Or they might shelter piratical degenerates who had become creatures of Chaos.
124. Even the bombing of a shelter full of civilians in Baghdad last week has failed to split it.
125. Hundreds of people were seeking shelter in the hospital complex and at police stations.
126. More pressing was the need to find shelter, food and extra clothing.
127. Over each, now, a wooden shelter was in place, already bleached by the sun.
128. The New Children's Shelter Fund received a grant of $80,000.
129. This variety is especially useful for planting in the corners of an aquarium, where it provides a shelter for refuge-seeking fishes.
130. She sat waiting for him, as she always did, hiding in the darkness afforded by the bus shelter.
131. Nightingales appreciate an open tree canopy with plenty of dense undergrowth and thicket below to provide nesting sites and shelter.
132. Overall, however[Sentencedict.com], requests for shelter increased by an average of five percent.
133. Above: Shelter Stone Crag - a familiar playground for winter climbers.
134. He opened the little back gate and peered around in the dark for the shelter.
135. They feed on insects, seed and shoots, digging in the snow with well-feathered feet and burrowing for food and shelter.
136. Basic provision of shelter, heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants.
137. To pass the time, Lee-Cruz occasionally plays cards or board games with some of the other mothers in the shelter.
138. He lined the shelter with rock and mud to keep out the cold and dug a ditch to divert the rain.
139. What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms?
140. Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George's Road.
141. If a hawk flies over their coop, they scurry to shelter; if a pigeon, they do not.
142. The shelter was quite a long way away, and there wouldn't be time to come back to the steps.
143. Torrential rain put a damper on the event, sending bedraggled guests squelching across lawns to seek shelter.
144. Red Cross volunteers are providing food, clothing and temporary shelter to the residents.
145. He was on his way to a shopping center in Jeff Parish where a model fallout shelter was on display.
146. Psychologists say that work helps us meet our needs for food, shelter, and material goods.
147. Adequate food and shelter are the minimum prerequisites of a decent life.
148. In addition to catching errors, object-oriented systems can shelter the user from the complexity of dealing with lots of different kinds of data.
149. Their bivouac in the rain and snow was less comfortable than at their former stations, where they had constructed some shelter.
150. Otherwise we put the continuity of vital work in jeopardy by failing to shelter it from the winds of international currency exchanges.
More similar words: svelte, alter, filter, filtering, alternative, helicopter, melt, belt, shelf, shell, help, hello, helmet, helpful, cannot help, and the like, nonetheless, to the life, overwhelm, in the least, to the limit, take the lead, in the long run, The last rites, nevertheless, not in the least, with the help of, overwhelming, outer, term.