SHELTERED in a Sentence

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Several fragments of loose stone formed a kind of breast-work, which sheltered their position from the observation of those below.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHELTERED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sheltered
 a.  protected from danger or bad weather
Classic Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1  From this, Charles and Melanie could only infer that she took a profound pleasure in this occasional excitement, the only excitement in her sheltered life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  In all her sheltered life she had never seen evil and could scarcely credit its existence, and when gossip whispered things about Rhett and the girl in Charleston she was shocked and unbelieving.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Scarlett, Melanie and Miss Pittypat sat in front of the Daily Examiner office in the carriage with the top back, sheltered beneath their parasols.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  The townsfolk sheltered as best they could in cellars, in holes in the ground and in shallow tunnels dug in railroad cuts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  I had sheltered myself from people all my life, I had carefully selected my few friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  She would be helpless and sheltered, as a lady should be, and then everyone would approve of her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  No, they were delicate sheltered creatures now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
8  Her own life was so pleasant, so sheltered, so wrapped about with people who loved her, so full of kindness that what Mammy told her was almost beyond comprehension or belief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
9  On the porch, sheltered by a wild-grape vine, was the figure of a woman in white.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  There in the sheltered draw-bottom the wind did not blow very hard, but I could hear it singing its humming tune up on the level, and I could see the tall grasses wave.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
11  We stood there in friendly silence, while the feeble minstrel sheltered in Antonia's hair went on with its scratchy chirp.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
12  When we were in the Cutters' yard, sheltered by the evergreens, I told her she must kiss me good night.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
13  There was a deep pool, sheltered and silent, below him, and a sudden wonderful idea rushed upon him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
14  Here was held another short but earnest consultation, during which the horses, to whose panic their owners ascribed their heaviest misfortune, were led from the cover of the woods, and brought to the sheltered spot.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
15  Several fragments of loose stone formed a kind of breast-work, which sheltered their position from the observation of those below.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  Human beings need food, clothing and shelter.
17  They opened a shelter to provide temporary housing for the city's homeless.
18  Parents often seek to shelter their children from outside influences.
19  The soldier looped a grenade into the enemy shelter trench.
20  The bomb shelter has concrete walls that are three metres thick.
21  A second relief boat, the Isabella , has arrived on Tikopia, and with it the first major shipment of food, water and shelter.
22  One by one they stepped in at last and took shelter under the tent; but to have company in misery seemed something to be grateful for.
23  I undressed hastily, and sought shelter from cold and darkness in my crib.
24  On the streets of New York the homeless live in abject poverty, huddling in doorways to find shelter from the wind.
25  The back-packers found partial shelter from the storm by huddling against the concave wall of the cliff.
26  The islanders took shelter in mountain caves to escape the onslaught.
27  And thus he would die -- out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came.
28  Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws.
29  The shelter, shaped like a gargantuan hut, will be 257 metres by 150 metres when completed and at its apex will be higher than the Statue of Liberty.
30  Their accountant suggested some novel ways of sheltering their retirement income.