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sheltering

noun as in housing

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Thousands of civilians remained within the town, sheltering in most cases underground.

Israel, however, contends that UNRWA sustains Hamas by employing and sheltering its members.

That exomoon could have a sheltering atmosphere, sufficient to warm the surface to allow liquid water to form.

Just slightly south of the city center, it offers large sheltering boulders to make your camp behind.

More and more shelters are managing to be both open-admission and no-kill, which is a revolution in animal sheltering.

The ruin of the Carter house stood upon a knoll, several great elms sheltering it.

They sauntered to where a giant pine tree spread its sheltering branches overhead.

More than ever the family closed in round her; it stood solid, a sheltering and protecting wall.

I stood back amid the sheltering laurels, hardly daring to breathe.

They have been sheltering refugees from every nation that has been devastated and overrun by the mad Huns.

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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sheltering, such as: affectionate, careful, caretaking, comforting, devoted, and fond.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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