Example Sentences

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The route: Today, you’ll walk 1.6 miles along the Pacific Coast Highway, but a wide bike lane and sand path will shelter you from traffic.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

Under a five-year agreement announced in November, Albania will shelter up to 36,000 migrants a year as Rome fast-tracks their asylum requests.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024

A good sunshade will shelter a family of four from gusty winds.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2023

Onkalo, meaning “pit” or “cavity” in Finnish, will shelter spent uranium fuel nearly half a kilometer below Earth’s surface outside the town of Eurajoki.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 4, 2022

Yes, there are rooms down below in the bowels of the earth which will shelter us, and hundreds beside us.

From With Joffre at Verdun A Story of the Western Front by Webb, Archibald