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How to use the word SHELTER in a Sentence? Page #11

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You try to encourage them to come in out of the cold, they really don't like shelter life because of the rules.

Lewis Hickson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The last time I was there, I got bedbugs. Hopefully, I can find a shelter somewhere that's presentable and me and my girl can go and make a stay for the winter. you try to encourage them to come in out of the cold.

Lewis Hickson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We have received funding and pledges of approximately $100 million for shelter and repair.

Robert Turner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The shortfall in the number of resettlement places for refugees offered by the international community is truly shocking, the complete absence of resettlement pledges from the Gulf is particularly shameful. Linguistic and religious ties should place the Gulf states at the forefront of those offering safe shelter to refugees fleeing persecution and war crimes in Syria.

Sherif Elsayed-Ali

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.

Phyllis McGinley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Robert South

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

added by anonymous
13 years ago

This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

John Ruskin

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13 years ago

A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H.L. Mencken

added by anonymous
14 years ago

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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14 years ago

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Eric Hoffer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

William Seward Burroughs

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14 years ago

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Marjorie Holmes

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14 years ago

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

John Ruskin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Alan Simpson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara Tuchman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Phillip Chesterfield

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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