shelter
noun
something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
shelterless
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a word derived from
shelter.
Example Sentences
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"Some 2,000 shelters have been burnt, leaving about 12,000 forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals shelterless," Mijanur Rahman, Bangladesh's refugee commissioner, told AFP news agency.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2023
It poised, tensed, on the landscape of shelterless rocks, While there, close beside, the still unseeing fox Was only a hare’s-breath away.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
But the boy agonizes over his status as a shelterless social pariah, as well as his potentially impending nuclear annihilation, and that destroys his relationship with his father.
From The Verge ● Jan. 16, 2018
Mr. Patrick didn’t arrive until after midnight on Sunday morning, having spent most of Saturday across the border, wrangling the tents for on-site campers who were cold and shelterless.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2010
He felt that the Company was too naked, afloat in little open boats in the midst of shelterless lands, and on a river that was the frontier of war.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
