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Example sentences for "shelterless"

Lexicographically close words:
shelly; shels; shelter; sheltered; sheltering; shelters; sheltie; shelve; shelved; shelves
  1. Statistics give us an average of two hundred and sixty shelterless children picked up annually by the police of that day in unenclosed fields, in houses building, and under the arches of bridges.

  2. The heat becomes almost unbearable; the region of treeless, shelterless hills continues to characterize my way, and when, at two o'clock P.

  3. Yet the sun blazed fiercely down upon the exposed and shelterless place where they worked, and tried them all severely.

  4. Surrounded as he had been by such sharpshooters, he had not a chance of holding out, almost shelterless as he was.

  5. This 'way of the Lord' is like a castle for the shelter of the shelterless good man, and behind those strong bulwarks he dwells impregnable and safe.

  6. There is only one thing that will keep us peaceful and unharmed, and that is to trust our poor shelterless lives and sinful souls to the Saviour who has died for us.

  7. Can Boston allow New York to excel it in caring for it shelterless workers?

  8. The other was an estimable Jewish lady who had some decided opinions in regard to comfortable jails for honest, homeless, shelterless women and girls.

  9. As I lay in my comfortable bed I thought of the homeless, moneyless ones who belonged to Omaha that night and who were shelterless and hungry.

  10. But there was the Associated Charities, and if the three hundred shelterless in Seattle could have found it between nine and five o'clock, they would have been given a bed no doubt.

  11. Unable to carry poles with them into a woodless region, they found their one wretched tent of no service and were compelled to lie shelterless with alternations of bitter cold and drenching rain.

  12. The Yahgan was "shelterless and naked in a land of fierce and freezing storms," but he did not freeze; he did not even shiver in ordinary Cape Horn weather.

  13. Living thus, "shelterless and naked in a land of fierce and freezing storms," one need not wonder that even scientific observers believed the Yahgan "the most miserable specimen of humanity to be found on earth.

  14. We left Ludlow by the broad highway that leads to Shrewsbury, but we soon deserted it for a lane which took us across a wide and breezy common, with an open, shelterless country stretching for miles away in front.

  15. From Worthing our road led for three or four miles along "the beached margin of the sea," a straight stretch of dreary and shelterless shingly road, looking doubly dreary after the pleasant green lanes we had so recently travelled.

  16. It was well indeed that we decided to leave the shelterless shelter of Kizil Robat.

  17. Elsewhere the road shrinks back among the shelterless fields for fear of mighty cliffs by which this northern Antrim coast is defended from the Atlantic.

  18. The house stands on the site of a bare, shelterless hill.

  19. At last they lay down hungry, with empty bags, one night, to sleep shelterless in the rain, for they had thrown their tent away.

  20. Carroll made no comment He had a vivid recollection of one or two of those other journeys, during which they had spent arduous days floundering through slushy snow and had slept in saturated blankets, and sometimes shelterless in bitter frost.

  21. November was here, and I was suddenly confronted with a long winter before me, and I pictured myself starved and snow bound in small out of the way villages, or mercilessly pelted by hailstones on a wild shelterless heath.

  22. He shuddered as he stood shelterless under the open heaven.

  23. Their bones whiten on the shelterless plain, or rot unburied by the ocean shore!

  24. It was plain that he had spent more than one night shelterless in the cold rain, and that he was quite famished.

  25. Their smiling endurance of cold and wet and privation would have endeared them to the first Napoleon, who declared that those soldiers were the best who bivouacked shelterless throughout the year.

  26. Or will not your benevolence rather acquire a new motive in the shelterless condition which awaits your very affectionate L.

  27. And now a word, in the second place, about the flight of the shelterless to the shelter.

  28. Truly, I hope I may never see a sadder sight than the going forth of those colonists to the shelterless plain.

  29. Not to throw old men and women and children out of their houses and leave them shelterless a dozen miles from a building.

  30. It was after he had grasped Dwight Wade's hand, both of them standing shelterless under the skies, the welcome rains beating into their faces.

  31. The Macnamara shelterless was certainly a subject for serious consideration.

  32. A constant number never have any houses at all, and sleep shelterless under the stars.

  33. He was staring out over the water and thinking, which is not a good thing for a shelterless man with a family to do.

  34. Sweating, starvation wages, armies of unemployed, and great numbers of the homeless and shelterless are inevitable when there are more men to do work than there is work for men to do.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shelterless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.