sheltered

Example Sentences

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Welty never married, and she declared that she’d come from “a sheltered life.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Your poinsettias will do fine in the house or on a sheltered porch, as long as they don’t experience big temperature swings like sitting next to a heater.

From Los Angeles Times

Back in January, it reportedly sheltered in the English Channel after suffering a mechanical failure during a storm.

From BBC

In the most recent attack, employees managed to contain the fire to localise the damage, and the staff, who had sheltered in a workshop, were unscathed.

From Barron's

"It's going to make a huge difference," Emma Hardy, the Minister for Water and Flooding, said of the ban as we sheltered from the rain at Minworth.

From BBC