sheltered
Example Sentences
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Where skies clear overnight, especially in more sheltered or rural locations, there will be a continued risk of night frosts.
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"Sometimes in sheltered housing it's hard, you know."
From BBC
Currently sheltered in a rundown badminton court in Vaphai village, the group's few belongings they were able to carry are packed in plastic sacks.
From BBC
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.
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