The word 'sheltering' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as an adjective to describe something that provides protection or covering from something else. For example, "The old tree provided sheltering shade on a hot summer day."
The sector's membership and lobbying body, the Federation of Black Housing Organisations (FBHO) was disbanded in 2008 and has since been replaced by a slimmed-down BMENational, sheltering under the wing of the NHF.
One local, sheltering in Marysville's lake, had to repeatedly duck as the flames blown from the neighbouring school covered the surface of the water in a solid sheet.
While the facility is immaculate, with a large outdoor area and spotless corridors, those sheltering here are not allowed to go outside or use mobile phones.
But since the discovery, on 2 May this year, of Bin Laden – found in Abbottabad, a garrison town 35 miles north of Islamabad – experts believe Zawahiri could also be sheltering outside the tribal belt.
He'd been sheltering beneath a bridge over a small river.
Back in Yola, after bags of beans were distributed to 4,000 people camped in the church's red-dust compound, ordinary families sheltering dozens of refugees came to try to replenish their dwindling food sources.
And now I'd come to Toksan, a town which isn't the prettiest, and it's pouring so hard I'm sheltering under a shop's awning, and that tent in my backpack doesn't seem so useful now.
Stephanie and David spent the first terrifying day of married life sheltering from the 150mph winds in a shower cubicle.
The soldiers held off the militants for almost an hour but fled when no reinforcements arrived, according to parents of the missing girls who later encountered the soldiers sheltering in the bush surrounding the town.
I'd hoped they'd escaped on foot and went looking for them at the village sports oval, where the locals who didn't evacuate were sheltering.
That's why Russia is sheltering Yanukovych, and threatening not to recognise the elections on 25 May.
