Explore Shelter through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like protection or housing. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Shelter in a sentence
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Shelter meaning
- Somewhere one can find protection.
- A place where a person or animal may find protection from the elements (especially rain, storms, or cold) sometimes as a place to sleep (such as a cave).
Synonyms of Shelter
Using Shelter
- The main meaning on this page is: Somewhere one can find protection. | A place where a person or animal may find protection from the elements (especially rain, storms, or cold) sometimes as a place to sleep (such as a cave). | Somewhere one can find protection.
- Useful related words include: protection, living accommodations, lodging, housing.
- Possible Dutch translations are: onderdak, toevluchtsoord, hokje.
- In the example corpus, shelter often appears in combinations such as: the shelter, shelter in, animal shelter.
Example sentences (20)
House lawmakers proposed placing rigid requirements on the Healey administration’s ability to spend $250 million in shelter funding, including specifically carving out $50 million for an overflow shelter site for families waiting for shelter placement.
In addition to the hotline, Western Shelter customers can utilize Western Shelter's YouTube Channel as a resource when seeking assistance for shelter deployment.
Lord said the county is stressing to people who may need to evacuate to first seek shelter with friends, family or at hotels and motels before seeking refuge in a public shelter, though obviously no one would be turned away from a shelter.
Then, during first grade in December 2018, the city announced that the family shelter in Brooklyn where Allen and London lived would be converted into a men’s shelter, so they were transferred to a shelter even farther from London’s school.
To that end, the regular shelter building has been transformed into an intox shelter, and the new temporary shelter at the Fritz Sick gymnasium is for those who are not under the influence of intoxicating substances while staying there.
And while city officials have said that a permanent location for a second shelter hasn't been identified and will involve a “robust community discussion,” some fear the Johnson Street shelter will simply become permanent for lack of other options.
A ribbon cutting ceremony at The Woodlands Family Shelter, a former hotel that’s been converted into a shelter to house homeless families in Woodland Hills, CA., Monday May 15, 2023.
A very busy shelter, over 4,500 are given service here annually and nearly 1,000 dogs a year get assistance from the shelter for food.
If you are unable to make it to a safe shelter, either get down in your car and cover your head, or abandon your car and seek shelter in a low lying area such as a ditch or ravine.
In a letter to residents dated January 2023, BC Housing said residents in supported housing at the shelter won’t have to move, and that the shelter will remain open.
It will replace the Oxford Street shelter in Bayside, which provides shelter for individuals, as opposed to families.
Local shelter Simply Cats took him under their wing and fell in love with his personality so much, he became the shelter pet!
Mayor John Franklin called a Sept. 12 special meeting to discuss the lack of shelter space and “concerning” data from the local shelter network.
Nina Dix, the co-founder and president of Shelter Guardians, feeds Toni, a Feist mix, during the shelter's Christmas Eve dinner.
One woman at the demonstration said that the appearance of the shelter led her to be concerned for her niece, who is a student at St. Joseph Hill Academy, another Catholic school whose campus borders the new migrant shelter.
Photos of available dogs are on the “animals at our shelter” page of the shelter’s website.
Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions said in 2022 that 5,973 individuals were classified as persons in emergency shelter, persons in transitional shelter and unsheltered persons.
The Community Company and The Cambridge Shelter spent five months renovating the third floor of the shelter to create a dedicated space for In our Backyard.
The family's shelter has looked after more than 15 wombats since the shelter opened in 2013 and they care for them for 18 months until they're fit enough to be released back into the wild.
The number of dog deaths at the Palmdale shelter has angered some local officials, who also complained about a $400,000 increase last fiscal year in county charges to manage shelter and animal control services.
Common combinations with shelter
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the shelter 64×
- shelter in 26×
- animal shelter 19×
- shelter and 14×
- shelter for 12×
- shelter at 10×
- shelter to 9×
- of shelter 9×
- shelter is 9×
- emergency shelter 8×