Definition: 1. The fact of having a place to live or stay, considered as a basic human need. 2. Protection from rain, danger or attack. 3. A structure built to give protection, especially from the weather or from attack.
Use 'shelter' in a sentence:
1. Migrant birds shelter in the reeds.
2. Hannah` s Place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that sleeping outdoors can mean death ．
3. They took refuge in a bomb shelter.
4. There is an emergency shelter in Winnipeg called "Hannah` s Place", something that Hannah is very proud of ．
5. I saw another stop, a shelter in the middle of the open country.
6. The tree affords some shelter from the sun.
7. The first thing he did was to find shelter form the freezing wind and snow.
8. Many are sleeping in the open because they have no shelter.
9. I took it to the animal shelter.
10. The National Guard says an armoury in Fairmont has opened to shelter stranded motorists.
11. Relief agencies are stepping up efforts to provide food, shelter and agricultural equipment.
12. They sought in vain for somewhere to shelter.
13. Over the next few hours, I watched hundreds of people come through the shelter.
14. Many of these children have led very sheltered lives.
15. There was no shelter from the fury of the storm.
16. A neighbor sheltered the boy for seven days.
17. Although horses do not generally mind the cold, shelter from rain and wind is important.
18. The New England Shelter in Boston will serve Christmas dinner for 200 vets.
19. Humans instinctively seek structures that will shelter and enhance their way of life.
20. We managed to rig up a shelter for the night.
21. Stand the plant in the open in a sunny, sheltered place.
22. The city's bomb shelters were being prepared for possible air raids.
23. For the last few years I have been living in sheltered accommodation.
24. She had a very sheltered childhood.
25. A little way below the ridge was an outcrop of rock that made a rough shelter.
26. In contrast, the lives of girls in well-to-do families were often very sheltered.
27. The number of families seeking shelter rose by 17 percent.
28. Human beings need food, clothing and shelter.
29. There is an urgent need for food and shelter for these displaced people.
30. No shelter was available for miles around in this treeless landscape.
31. They constructed a shelter out of fallen branches.
32. In ancient times, people define a happy life as a life with food and shelter.
33. People were desperately seeking shelter from the gunfire.
34. The fox was running for the shelter of the trees.
35. They provided food and shelter for the poor.
36. Trees shelter the house from the wind.
37. They built a rough shelter from old pieces of wood.
38. At last she gained the shelter of the forest.
39. We sheltered in a doorway to wait out the storm.
40. They have dragged themselves thither for shelter.
41. Relief agencies are stepping up efforts to provide food, shelter, and agricultural equipment.
42. The door enables us to shut the birds in the shelter in bad weather.
43. The shelter is built by lashing poles together to form a small dome.
44. There aren't enough tents to shelter them all.
