Example sentences for: sheltered

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

  • 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."

  • Sissy's first husband never got it, but he did leave her with a useful term, the big bubble , which he used--rather bitterly--to describe our sheltered upbringing.

  • The device can reach people in sheltered areas, like basements or, in the Chechens'case, caves.

  • The beach is sheltered by steep cliffs that house ancient cave dwellings.

  • Man-made sheltered lagoons provide for safe swimming, snorkeling, and sunbathing.


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