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shelter

[shel-ter] / ˈʃɛl tər /




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Residents used pots and pans to clear water from their flooded tents, with some saying they were left without shelter.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Witnesses told AFP they saw people seeking shelter in shops and restaurants in the usually bustling streets around the Main Square.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

But the water washed it into the flooded shelter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

He sought to preserve a sense of order in the physical space of his little shelter, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

She knit preemie caps for the nursery at the nearby hospital, crocheted blankets for the shelter, and helped organize the food bank.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

More than 1.9 million people have been displaced, many of them multiple times, and 1.2 million of them are currently living in tents or makeshift shelters, it says.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

This provides enough electricity to charge phones and run lights, fans and even electric razors, small comforts that have become a luxury for families still living in tents and shelters.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Rio Tinto has previously faced criticism for destroying two sacred Aboriginal rock shelters in Pilbara which sat above tonnes of iron ore.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The controversy emphasized how California, where shelters are overflowing with animals, failed to regulate private rescue groups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The shelters along this section of trail were mostly new and spanking clean.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Folk musicians performed as pilgrims sheltered from the spring sun under umbrellas.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

A touch of frost will be possible in sheltered areas in the northern half of the UK.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Under Ms. Bass’s signature program, the city has spent $82,420 a year for each homeless person it has sheltered in motels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

It moves the familiar story about a bullied, sheltered teenage girl to the present.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

At dawn waking he lifted his head; the rain had ceased; he saw, sheltered in the folds of his cloak, a little animal curled up asleep which had crept there for warmth.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Across this scarred landscape of abandoned farm fields and derelict villages are thousands of infantrymen, like Vlasenko, scattered in ones and twos, sheltering in makeshift bunkers—the humans in a robot war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Foreign students at several international schools were shaken after spending part of the afternoon sheltering in place in windowless rooms, said a mother who spoke to parents at several of the schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The lesser figures were accused of sheltering migrants, transporting them across France to the so-called "jungle" camp outside Calais, and helping on the night of the departure.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

It also found that moving and sheltering the most vulnerable — children in foster care, incarcerated youth and adults, people with disabilities — “lacked a countywide coordination model.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

A black-stalked plant towered over us, its dark green leaves, broader than a man’s hand, sheltering purple bellshaped flowers.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein


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