SHELTERED in a Sentence

Learn SHELTERED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
220 example sentences for SHELTERED, such as:
1. I picked a sheltered site for the tent.
2. A neighbor sheltered the boy for seven days.
3. Provision of shelter was their main concern.
4. Perhaps I've just led a really sheltered life.
5. They are in desperate need of food and shelter.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SHELTERED
sheltered
 n.  temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons
 v.  invest (money) so that it is not taxable
Classic Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1  From this, Charles and Melanie could only infer that she took a profound pleasure in this occasional excitement, the only excitement in her sheltered life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  In all her sheltered life she had never seen evil and could scarcely credit its existence, and when gossip whispered things about Rhett and the girl in Charleston she was shocked and unbelieving.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Scarlett, Melanie and Miss Pittypat sat in front of the Daily Examiner office in the carriage with the top back, sheltered beneath their parasols.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  The townsfolk sheltered as best they could in cellars, in holes in the ground and in shallow tunnels dug in railroad cuts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  I had sheltered myself from people all my life, I had carefully selected my few friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  She would be helpless and sheltered, as a lady should be, and then everyone would approve of her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  No, they were delicate sheltered creatures now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
8  Her own life was so pleasant, so sheltered, so wrapped about with people who loved her, so full of kindness that what Mammy told her was almost beyond comprehension or belief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
9  On the porch, sheltered by a wild-grape vine, was the figure of a woman in white.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  There in the sheltered draw-bottom the wind did not blow very hard, but I could hear it singing its humming tune up on the level, and I could see the tall grasses wave.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
11  We stood there in friendly silence, while the feeble minstrel sheltered in Antonia's hair went on with its scratchy chirp.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
12  When we were in the Cutters' yard, sheltered by the evergreens, I told her she must kiss me good night.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
13  There was a deep pool, sheltered and silent, below him, and a sudden wonderful idea rushed upon him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
14  Here was held another short but earnest consultation, during which the horses, to whose panic their owners ascribed their heaviest misfortune, were led from the cover of the woods, and brought to the sheltered spot.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
15  Several fragments of loose stone formed a kind of breast-work, which sheltered their position from the observation of those below.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  Many old people choose to live in sheltered accommodation.
2  A few pedestrians carrying their evening shopping sheltered from the rain in doorways.
3  Perhaps I've just led a really sheltered life.
4  Stand the plant in the open in a sunny, sheltered place.
5  Herbs need fertile soil and a sunny sheltered position.
6  Paula was the product of a sheltered middle-class home.
7  At present many sheltered housing schemes are trying to cope with severe difficulties in relation to dementing tenants.
8  A neighbor sheltered the boy for seven days.
9  I picked a sheltered site for the tent.
10  The farmyard was snugly sheltered with buildings on three sides.
11  Psychologists say they are often spoilt and sheltered from problems by their parents so are unable to cope with difficulties.
12  Food, clothing and shelter are all basic necessities of life.
13  They built a primitive shelter out of tree trunks.
14  Provision of shelter was their main concern.
15  They are in desperate need of food and shelter.