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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181. Aphids are kept in check by beetle banks and shelter strips of willow to harbour natural predators.
182. The New York City officials were found in contempt of court for failing to find shelter quickly enough for needy families.
183. I froze in the shelter of my rock, but the glasses were aimed higher, at the tent.
184. First the day-care center went; then a long-established restaurant; then a shelter for homeless men.
185. The long roots of Water Lettuce provide shelter for fish and fry.
186. The number of needy Americans seeking emergency food and shelter increased by 7% last year.
187. Contributions of money will help the league build an animal shelter.
188. So homeless organisations may have to rely on charity to provide the extra night shelter.
189. When the camera crew arrived three days later, the shelter was covered in graffiti and all its glass had been shattered.
190. When the trench was completed Willie sat on the grass to watch the others fix the Anderson shelter inside it.
191. The mariners spent the night in such shelter as they could find from the 30-knot winds, drenching squalls and menacing waves.
192. We went down into the station shelter and I experienced the familiar claustrophobic sensation of waiting for something to happen. Sentencedict.com
193. The sweet murmur of their water can provide balm for troubled spirits and their banks offer sweet shelter to nurture true love.
194. Soldiers reached Saidpur district late last week and have since distributed hundreds of tonnes of paraffin, shelter and food grains.
195. The gardens shelter a heated swimming pool and a private sun deck with panoramic views.
196. With hundreds of thousands of people in desperate need of food and shelter, six more helicopters were sent from Pretoria.
197. If this results in objections it may affect our ability to provide a shelter.
198. The main interest is centred on the splendid harbour, almost completely landlocked and providing excellent shelter.
199. Without shelter or shady places they may cower in the corners.
200. Slugs and snails Soft-bodied, voracious molluscs that often shelter by day beneath leaves and plant debris, and feed at night.
201. No gentile dared shelter refugees(sentencedict.com), nor could those in flight take along currency.
202. The trilogy represents raft, shelter and spires and moves from dusk through night to dawn.
203. In a shelter under London, while bombs exploded overhead, she coupled in a frenzy with a dead-faced young woman.
204. The chicks all scurry to shelter; but if the same models are drawn backward, they do not.
205. Small animals used her as a shelter, burrowing into her rotting bowels.
206. The Family Shelter meets the needs of families in distress.
207. Instead, you can use your annual capital gains tax exemption-currently £7,200-to shelter the returns from the taxman.
208. Startled, the pack had run for the shelter of the trees, where they had milled about uncertainly.
209. Read in studio An animal shelter threatened with closure is to stay open.
210. Dense tufts of pea-green underwater foliage, rising to the surface during the summer and affording shelter for fish and their fry.
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.