Sentence examples for as a sheltering from inspiring English sources

To the north, the interstate highway functions, intended or not, as a sheltering barrier.

Mr. Pons saw that the ground level could become a kind of outdoor living room, with the house as a sheltering roof.

Rhododendrons, first introduced into Britain in the late 1700s and nurtured by the Victorians, were brought to Colonsay in around 1900 by the then local landowner as a sheltering shrub for his sporting estate at Kiloran House.

Reading novels and how-to guides of the mid-1800'sheshe observes the way "mother" and "home" came to stand in for each other -- how motherhood was figured as a sheltering structure analogous to, and then identical with, a home itself, the place where mothers inscribed their nurturing values on society.

Ms. Singleton asked whether the church was being used as a shelter, he said.

The building has been used as a shelter for evacuees of Hurricane Sandy and homeless people.

People saw posh property in the capital as a shelter from economic turmoil abroad.

In one instance, a site suggested as a shelter was actually a vacant lot.

He pointed to an underpass, beneath an intersection, which he said can serve as a shelter.

Her prodigies, madmen and performers (Maria Callas, Emily Dickinson, Glenn Gould) choose art as a shelter, with melancholy results.

Bonnie Manning of Sherman, Conn., prepared to fire up a grill at the school that was doubling as a shelter.