noun
definition
A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
definition
An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
verb
definition
To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
definition
To take cover.
example
During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.
Examples of shelter in a Sentence
The kid needed shelter and warmth.
Hopefully it would offer some kind of shelter from the threatening storm.
He built him a little hut for shelter at night and in stormy weather.
She wasn't in this alone, and it was impossible to shelter the children from it.
He was again forced to give his army rest and shelter, under cover of Murat's cavalry.
It was a place where good people, and timid, helpless people could find shelter in time of war.
Under the shelter of the castle lies the modern village.
The harbour, though recently improved, offers little shelter to shipping.
These driver ants shelter in temporary nests made in FIG.
The oak requires shelter in the early stages of growth; in England the Scotch pine is thought best for this purpose, though Norway spruce answers as well on suitable ground, and larch and other trees are sometimes substituted.
The standard of life of the ordinary well-to-do middle class in England, for example, includes not only food, clothing and shelter of a kind different in many respects from that of a similar class in other countries and of other classes in England, but a highly complicated mechanism, both public and private, for ministering to these primary needs, habits of social intercourse, educational and sanitary organization, recreative arrangements and many other elements.
When concealment is no longer possible terrestrial species, like the Lycosidae, dart swiftly to the nearest shelter afforded by crevices in the soil, stones, fallen leaves or logs of wood, while those that live in bushes, like the Argyopidae, drop straight to the ground and lie hidden in the earth or in the fallen vegetation beneath.
The man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper.
It supported a large number of villages and small towns, whose remains are remarkably well preserved, and still serve to shelter a sparse pastoral population.
Take shelter under the cloud, while they flee to carts and sheds.
The streets of the entire business section of the city are roofed over in this manner, and in the summer months the shelter from the sun is very grateful, but in the winter these streets are extremely trying to the foreign visitor, owing to their darkness and their damp and chilly atmosphere.
It wouldn't have been under shelter at my apartment, either.
Shelter against severe storms is needed.
We can use the tarp to build a shelter.
This castle, indeed, yielded a safe shelter to the pope in January 1400, when the Colonnas made their attempt to surprise Rome.
Shelter We missed the tide and had a short portage over the spit at Oronsay.
In Albuquerque a homeless shelter refused $ 1,200 raised by a drag show.
A small waiting shelter was provided on the down side.
Camp will be in a stone shelter used by the yak herders.
We understand by economics the science which investigates the manner in which nations or other larger or smaller communities, and their individual members, obtain food, clothing, shelter and whatever else is considered desirable or necessary for the maintenance and improvement of the conditions of life.
Emmet's lack of discretion was shown by his revealing his intentions in detail to an Englishman named Lawrence, resident near Honfleur, with whom he sought shelter when travelling on foot on his way to Ireland.
It is connected by a branch line with the main railway of Schleswig, and possesses a good harbour, which affords shelter for a large carrying trade.
There were also frequent and imperious demands for the surrender of fugitives who had sought shelter from the wrath of Attila within the limits of the empire.
The Assembly found shelter in the church of St Louis, where it was joined by the main body of the clergy and by the first of the nobles.
Owing to the lack of shelter in its open roadstead, the port has not become the great commercial centre which its position otherwise qualifies it to be.
Ginger wasn't as facially pretty as Paulette but her figure—stately and full—and her dress—expensive and tasteful— paled her sister-in-law like a queen visitor at a homeless shelter.
We were located downtown next to a homeless shelter.
He was bundled into a snow hole for shelter and was subsequently successfully treated for ' frost nip ' .
I've met many people working for Shelter who are fiercely passionate and dedicated to the organization they work for.
To get more food, people would plant a vegetable patch on top of their Anderson shelter.
Open This page from an air raid precaution book had instruction for building an Anderson Shelter.
A frost proof shelter measuring four feet x four feet is attached to the flight at the rear.
Some students may join low-paid workers, who, according to a recent news report have begun to seek shelter in the hostels.
During the brief reprieve, the basement had filled with people seeking shelter, some of whom were wounded from bomb shrapnel.
They can be encouraged by the provision of refugia comprising sheets of bitumen roofing felt on the banks, beneath which they will shelter.
Repair or build a drystane dike to provide shelter for animals and plants such as wall rue, lichens or mosses.
Some are already wearing their school uniforms and have satchels are their backs, ready to go straight to school from their shelter.
By evening a gale running down both sides of the Scottish mainland and small coastal vessels scuttled for shelter.
A mile or so inland will bring you into Friston Forest, which will provide shelter from strong sea breezes.
These rocky reefs provide shelter for a tremendous variety of marine animals and plants and make an excellent place to study the seashore.
The full time worker will erect a simple shelter in which to work.
Once again we sought shelter in the lee of a wood.
Our air raid shelter We were a very large family, Dad was provided with materials to build a double air-raid shelter.
The air raid shelter gave me the idea for the secret room the friends discover in The Secret Room Part 1.
Brick bus shelter should go, community council says More.. .