Sentence examples for a kind of shield from inspiring English sources

But in almost every case the car is a kind of shield that deflects empathy.

If privacy is a kind of shield, its loss only reinforces the helplessness of the victim.

Their faces aren't exposed, and their backsides act as a kind of shield.

It built a kind of shield to keep the crude from rising.

It was a kind of shield as well as a sadness.

He wears humor and extroversion as a kind of shield; most of his colleagues know almost nothing about his life leading up to the moment they met.

Dozens took cover with us as we ducked behind any kind of shield we could find.

Which makes civil servants a kind of human shield for the political prophets of austerity.

Wait, doesn't Zionism mean putting a kind of defensive shield, military and statist, around Jewish ritual observance?

"His men concluded there was some aura about him," he writes, "that acted as a kind of protective shield".

But in one case I heard about recently, the word served a different function: It became a kind of magic shield.