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Example sentences for "seek shelter"

  • She, at least, was under no orders to seek shelter in the manoir; the roof that covered this marquise and her stepson should never be slept under by Dorine.

  • I should so travel their road, seek shelter in the house that my father's heir dwells in.

  • The fact above recorded shows the Moros to be hardy, much-enduring birds, which, though they love to seek shelter in a warm corner, can endure a considerable degree of cold.

  • I thought of retracing my steps, but the storm gathered so swiftly and blew so fiercely that I was compelled to seek shelter in the only house for miles around--Cliff Farm.

  • I saw the storm coming on, and, like you, I thought it was a good idea to seek shelter.

  • His horse was lame and when he saw the house he decided to seek shelter.

  • I am completely lost, and when I saw this house I thought the best thing I could do was to seek shelter.

  • Moreover, an icy wind rustles across the waste, and for dreary minutes we seek shelter, squatting beneath some friendly gorse.

  • Nothing remained but to seek shelter in the village below.

  • But the military force established in the fortresses of Hereford and Gloucester, joined by the neighbouring inhabitants, rushed upon the Danes, and compelled them to seek shelter in an adjacent wood.

  • The boches, on retiring, had set fire to four corners of the village and everything had been burned, save his church where he permitted some German wounded to seek shelter.

  • There is, above all, a hut where I go to seek shelter.

  • He desired without doubt to seek shelter, for he slammed the gate after him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    amicable arrangement; bourgeois society; deeply religious; everybody seemed; gods and; handed game; long corridor; many books; month before; moral progress; nothing wrong; quicker pace; ritual murder; said the little knight; seek after; seek employment; seek for; seek refuge; seek thee; seek their; seek them; seeking whom; thou also; transported for seven years; violent death; where their