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How to use the word Shield in a Sentence?

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War is approaching, its presence imminent—a divine instruction, a call to arms. In the face of this looming threat, the fervent call echoes: Pray, pray, and pray again, for in prayer lies the shield that may spare you from the grasp of death.

Christen kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

Let our independence roar louder than any oppression. Let our unity forge an unbreakable shield against any tyranny. Let our freedom steer us towards a destiny of equity and justice, peace and prosperity for all.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
3 months ago

When Youngkin and DeSantis do things like this, they aren’t taking into account the discrimination that can result, if parental rights are constantly about gender identity and critical race theory, it doesn’t seem to be about education. It seems to me it’s about making sure I can shield my kid from anything other than what I want them to know.

Jennifer Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If the Democrats vote against this resolution, then they are continuing in their coordinated effort to shield a potentially compromised President from necessary congressional oversight, we must shed light on the Hunter Biden family's international business schemes to determine if there is a national security threat.

James Comer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[ Forests are ] the ecological shield of our country and the entire planet. They play a key role in absorbing global greenhouse gas emissions, which means large-scale fires undermine our efforts to save the climate. This is a fundamental issue for the whole world, for our country.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is really important because if you don't have the stage orientated perfectly with the heat shield down, then basically as the reentry process begins, it's like a big ball of plasma [ and ] it'll basically shred the stage.

Rocket Lab

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Keeping Up With The Kardashians. i want to shield them from as much as I can.

Kim Kardashian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to shield them from as much as I can, and if I had the power to or if Kanye has the power to, like that is just the most important thing to me. And I'm just so emotional because of it.

Kanye West

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The people who had the clearest boundaries of who is a close friend and who they are distant from show the greatest friend shield effect and feel more invulnerable to Covid.

De Vries

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The idea was that we perceive our friends like a shield. We feel safe when Covid-19 is associated with friendship.

De Vries

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’ve covered a lot of war zones and this one feels to me, and it could be in part because we’re in the middle of this war right now, this one feels different in the way that there is still room for this humanity to shine through, but it is so widespread and so serious for the entire population of Ukraine that it’s limited in how much people are lighthearted because they are literally experiencing a nightmare. It’s unfolding all around them. It’s the sirens. When there are air raids, it’s the explosions in the distance. It’s watching their children or trying to shield their children from seeing bodies in the streets. It’s these really heavy, heavy things.

Trey Yingst

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For years, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts attempted to shield themselves from culpability by directing others to do their dirty work for them.

Alina Habba

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The lawsuit filed today outlines the defendants’ nefarious plot to vilify Donald J. Trump by spreading lies to weave a false narrative that he was colluding with Russia, for years, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts attempted to shield themselves from culpability by directing others to do their dirty work for them.

Alina Habba

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I've taught her that, really, the mask acts as a shield that protects us, i try to keep it as simple as possible that a mask slows the germs from jumping on other people.

Aubrey Marshall

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Make no mistake, Joe Biden's war on American energy is to blame for the price of gas hitting record highs. Biden is using Russia's war in Ukraine as a shield for his Far-Left anti-energy agenda, instead of unleashing American energy dominance at home, the Biden administration is turning to other foreign dictators and Russia-aligned regimes to fill this need. We must unleash American energy dominance and no longer depend on our foreign adversaries for oil and gas. That is the only way America can reverse the historic gas prices hurting families across the country and ensure our energy and national security.

Elise Stefanik

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They behave like pillagers and marauders. And, you know, there is a lot of information about the future provocations that brood in Mariupol and other territories where the Ukrainians are now trying to use the civilians as a human shield, talk to the Indians, the Arabs, and the Africans that are trying to flee Ukraine now. They are not allowed.

Sergey Lavrov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is not a shield of armor.

Joyce Bilyeu

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That’s going to be a nice shield of armor for our population as a whole, if we do get to very low case rates, we certainly can ease back on some of these restrictions.

Bryan Lewis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every time you pin that shield on, walk out the door, you’re worried about getting a phone call – too many have gotten the phone call lately, every day in this country, 316 people are shot, 106 killed, there have been six NYPD victims of gun violence so far just this year.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What they'll find is they know them already. They are your sons. They are your husbands, fathers and brothers. They are your neighbors. They walked these city streets beside you. They shared the same dreams and have the same worries you have. That's why they took the oath and pinned on a New York City police officer's shield — not because they were different, but because they could see themselves in you.

Patrick Lynch

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a seismic victory for justice and accountability that will re-open the deeply flawed Purdue Pharma bankruptcy and force the Sackler family to confront the pain and devastation they have caused, connecticut will not allow billionaire wrongdoers to hide behind the bankruptcy code to shield their blood money and escape justice.

William Tong

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We talked about how our family became a family openly in front of him. When he went in social gatherings, [ if ] anybody would ask, we didn't shield him from hearing it from a very young age.

Pete Mercurio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From a young age, hidden helpers learn the costs of war close up. You see how difficult the road to recovery can be. You know the reality of changing bandages or long stays in hospital rooms. You get tired of having to be brave. And there's no way to, you know, keep you from feeling sad sometimes. So no, we can't shield our caregiving kids from the reality of war or its aftermath, but we can recognize the costs, that they last long after our troops come home, and that injuries can be felt throughout generations.

Jill Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The state would have to prove, pursuant to the accessory after the fact statute, that they knewabout his crime and they intended to make sure or shield him from criminal liability, which I think isgoing to be very difficult to establish beyond a reasonable doubt.

Alfredo Garcia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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