How to use "shelter" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

Example sentences for "shelter" in popular movie and book plots

Max also learns that an animal shelter he visits is being closed down to build Jindrake's opulent football stadium. - Max Keeble's Big Move
Rivers feels uneasy about Sassoon entering Craiglockhart, doubting that he is shell-shock and not wanting to shelter a conscientious objector. - Regeneration (novel)
He tells the innkeeper a modified version of his story, and the man is persuaded to shelter him. - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Her father-in-law Eli (Rubes) reluctantly agrees to shelter him, despite his distrust for the gun-carrying outsider. - Witness (1985 film)
He is sent to a bomb shelter with the unarmed civilians as enemy planes approach. - Wake Island (film)
Most of the guests seek shelter in the basement, where Wirt declares his love for Letty and offers to take her away from the dismal place. - The Wind (1928 film)
Wales' companions take shelter in the fortified ranch house and open fire, gunning down all of Terrill's men. - The Outlaw Josey Wales
giving food and shelter to fifty people in the winter, and giving them employment in the summer". - My Man Godfrey
Andy approaches the guard, and tells him a way that he can legally shelter the money from taxation. - Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
On the third night, they are forced to take shelter inside a giant Martian cabbage plant (nearly suffocating when it folds up at night). - Red Planet (novel)
In the final chapter of the book, the family takes shelter from the flood in an old barn. - The Grapes of Wrath
He takes shelter in a nearby house that turns out to belong to dr Kemp, a former acquaintance from medical school. - The Invisible Man
Alvin enjoys watching a rainstorm from the shelter of an abandoned farmhouse. - The Straight Story
Totoro is delighted at both the shelter and the sounds made upon it by falling raindrops. - My Neighbor Totoro
Huck is given shelter on the Kentucky side of the river by the Grangerfords, an "aristocratic" family. - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
He does not recognise Alex, but gives him shelter and questions him about the conditioning he has undergone. - A Clockwork Orange (novel)

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