Sentence examples for to shield myself from inspiring English sources

Instinctively, I lean away and put my hands out to shield myself.

She said that she was wearing a black sweater — "partly to shield myself from this spitting rain falling in the valley but also to shield myself from the pat condolences I know I'll receive today" — and that she needed coffee.

Now I pulled my huge multicolored umbrella closer to my head to shield myself from the wind.

I TRIED to shield myself from the Beatles altogether — their music, images, conversations about them — but it's hard, if not impossible.

It started in the off-season — this habit of coping with loss by denying it, by using magical thinking to shield myself from the pain of disappointment.

I, the watched, became like the watchers: scared, angry, on guard, protective of my mundane personal business, eager to shield myself from false accusations and willing to shirk civic interaction to do it.

But in hearing this harsh criticism, I simply wanted close my eyes and shield myself.

I didn't want that brush with her mortality to scare me into trying to shield her (and, by extension, myself) from pain.

Ironically, I, who fiercely encourage each girl at Laurel to follow her passion and to cultivate resilience, find myself seeking to shield my own daughter from the bumps she is certain to face if she chooses a life in the theater.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time shielding myself, not allowing myself to experience moments because I was worried I would get hurt – either physically or emotionally.

It took a good few minutes to process and I was considering finishing the series there, shielding myself from more heartbreak and disappointment.