shelter - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • erect: The full time worker will erect a simple shelter in which to work.
  • afford: Many climbers and walkers owe their lives to the shelter afforded by MBA maintained bothies.
  • seek: Once again we sought shelter in the lee of a wood.
  • thatch: Our thatched garden shelters can be designed to meet your needs.

Adjective modifier

  • makeshift: Many survivors have set up makeshift shelters on top of the debris that used to be their homes.
  • homeless: In Albuquerque a homeless shelter refused $ 1,200 raised by a drag show.
  • temporary: Pest & disease watch Keep temporary shelters in place over peach trees to protect against peach leaf curl.
  • hardened: I then saw out two aircraft from their HAS ( hardened aircraft shelter ) which were undertaking a training sortie.
  • underground: He made his way through the bombing, to a deep underground shelter in the basement of the Herbert Art Gallery.

Modifies a noun

  • belt: However, shelter belts of trees have had to grow to protect from strong winds.

Noun used with modifier

  • air-raid: Our Air Raid Shelter We were a very large family, Dad was provided with materials to build a double air-raid shelter.
  • raid: The air raid shelter gave me the idea for the secret room the friends discover in The Secret Room Part 1.
  • bus: Brick bus shelter should go, community council says More.. .
  • bomb: There was a 1940s bomb shelter at the bottom of the garden, which was better presented than some of the house.
  • air: The air raid shelter gave me the idea for the secret room the friends discover in The Secret Room Part 1.

Possessives

  • cabman: Most old postcards of Broad Street show this cabmen's shelter, which stood in the middle of the street from 1885 to 1912.

Preposition: in

  • lee: Once again we sought shelter in the lee of a wood.

Preposition: from

  • wind: The main beach is quite sheltered from the wind by the small harbor.
  • storm: Take the plunge 23. take shelter from the storm 24.

Preposition: for

  • homeless: At the foot of the lobby's staircase stands Inventory's Outlier, a text-based shelter for the homeless.

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