shelter

Example Sentences

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They gather drinking water from a river, start fires with sticks, arrange palm fronds for one type of shelter and ice blocks for another, as well as prepare meals of cactus and beetles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Dogs at the Chesterfield Square animal shelter have been kept inside their kennels for three weeks due to a giardia outbreak.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

In this case, a cave filled with the remains of past meals became a shelter for a completely different kind of inhabitant.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

She called on authorities "to make at least one inclusive shelter in each district".

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

At nine, we hauled a backpack filled with apples and books to read beneath pine trees that provided shelter from the summer heat.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith