Example sentences for: sheltered

How can you use “sheltered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the first, Oskar, sheltered under a rostrum at a Nazi rally, disrupts the proceedings by pounding out the three-quarters-time beat of a waltz and confusing the marching band, so that everyone waltzes off.

  • But it too has been grossly overdeveloped, so its lovely, sheltered, golden beach can become unbearably crowded.

  • While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."

  • The would-be killers, who came from the Egyptian Islamic Group, had been sheltered in Sudan and helped by Bin Ladin.

  • Beyea said the study was conducted because of growing concern that low-income children were subject to intense, emotional arguments that more affluent children would be sheltered from.


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