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shelter

[shel-ter] / ˈʃɛl tər /




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Residents were urged to shelter in place due to downed power lines and other hazards.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

"I found some shelter, a quiet woodland away from the road," he said.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

This area, often called a dead zone, offers shelter from predators that cannot easily survive there.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

Spain's King Felipe VI, visiting a shelter for evacuees, said the wildfires ravaging the countryside around Madrid and other areas had caused "incalculable" damage to the nation's natural heritage.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

I didn’t lack for anything —food, shelter, the basics—but nothing was ever really mine either.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Almásy shelters Katharine in a cave and goes off to get help, eventually evading arrest and stealing an airplane to rescue her.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

Wildfires in Spain and France have caused mass evacuation and disruption, with more than 300,000 people forced to leave their homes and many sleeping in sports halls and other temporary shelters.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

An estimated 45,194 homeless people live in the city, with about 36% of them in shelters, according to LAHSA.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

Most of all, the high-fantasy storyline, which culminates in an exciting battle between the duke’s army and an icebound civilization that shelters Ildr and Paul, is good fun.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

“We could volunteer at homeless shelters and food banks. Or teach kids math. Or play board games at Mrs. Gilbert’s senior citizen complex and walk rescue dogs at the animal shelter...”

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

His wife, Tetiana, a doctor, was reminded of how people sheltered in the London Underground during German bombings in World War II. “You feel like a character in a movie about Britain,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

"You go from a special kindergarten to a special school and then into one of these sheltered workshops," he says.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

Specifically, it noted "the high number of persons with disabilities enrolled in sheltered workshops and the low rate of transition to the open labour market".

From BBC Jun. 24, 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

Rather, it was accompaniment: feeding, sheltering, driving, watching, and warning so no one had to move in isolation.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Before his career took off, Reilly volunteered for the United Farm Workers and lived an ascetic life, sheltering in church halls, as he ministered to the poor.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

Authorities will continue to enforce its immigration laws, she added, but warned that protesters should not conduct unauthorised searches of homes and businesses that are suspected of sheltering undocumented migrants.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

They include Malawian nationals, about 7,000 of whom have been sheltering in an open field in the eastern port city of Durban, according to an inter-ministerial migration committee set up after the president's address.

From Barron's Jun. 14, 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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