But the watchers shielding the flames with their hands strove to prevent them being extinguished.
Instantly the bell rang, the banjo was thrummed and the tambourine rattled giddily, and white hands flashed above the shielding draperies.
Instinctively shielding her eyes, she looked down.
Virginia, shielding her aged father as Ropes approached him.
The leader, shieldinghis eyes with his hand, peered into the gloom of the cavern.
She recalled again what Isom had proudly told her of the lad's blood and breeding, and she understood dimly now that there was something extraordinary in Joe's manner of shielding her to his own disgrace and hurt.
Perhaps it is because chivalry is such a rare quality among the business activities of this life, that none of them believed he was shielding Isom's wife, and that he was innocent of any wrong himself.
She declares that she is positive that Miss Stevens found the pin and made no effort to return it to you, and that you are shielding her from the effects of her own wrongdoing by allowing her to continue to wear it.
But the affair of the pin was destined not to sink into oblivion, for the next morning Marjorie found on her desk the following note: "Miss Dean: "Do you think you are doing right in shielding a thief?
What could be the motive for such a crime, and such a shielding of the criminal?
She was sitting as he had left her, passive and unmoved, with the shadows cast by the lightly swaying curtains half shielding her face, and the grey darkness of the starless sky for a background.
It will penetrate the interface's shielding and fuse it.
That's why the HERF gun hadn't done anything; that's why they'd been so casual about working with the shielding off their computers.
With my eye, I followed the copper shielding around the entire stage and up the walls, where it disappeared into the ceiling.
He found time to curse the fool who had decided the shielding on the lifeboat would have to be removed and repaired.
And the shielding that been on the other five engines had melted and run; it was worthless.
The shielding had been removed from the atomic motors.
You believe inshielding the memory of a dead enemy.
Shielding returned home he found that his wife had insisted upon keeping Mollie and Millicent as their guests until Jack's return, to which arrangement he heartily assented.
Shielding left Millicent and Mollie with his wife and daughter.
I became more and more convinced that she was shielding Hall, and I felt sure that when she learned it was not he, she would feel relieved.
I quite understand, Louis, that you are shieldingsome person.
I knew he thought young Porter had taken it and wasshielding him.
He lighted the latter and held it flame down till a few drops of wax formed a tiny lake; into this he stuck the candle upright, shielding its flame with his coat.
Her non-refutation of this deduction told him as conclusively as though she had uttered the accusation that she thought Alan had taken the money and Mortimer was shielding him.
To him there was not the slightest ground for supposing Alan had taken the money, but blinded by her love, evidently Allis thought Mortimer was shielding her brother.
Even worse, Alan was shielding himself behind this terrible bulwark of circumstantial evidence which topped him, the innocent one, on every side.
He was capable of walking erectly through the trees, of keeping his shoes bright, of shielding his hat from indignity--and of nothing more.
Each wing had two closets in a deep recess, the door shielding the occupant's person from mid-leg to breast.
So carefully is every regulation contrived for shielding officials that a prisoner is not allowed, in his quarterly letter, to give any particulars of his treatment.
The inmates of the houses there were all within-doors, shielding themselves from the heat of the midday sun, reflected with oppressive intensity from the white houses.
He was her all, her idol, and her days had been spent in pampering and shielding him.
That was what the men at the front said to a fellow when he was going over the top of the shielding trench into the dangerous unknown.
The third time, she had relaxed from the corpselike position, and had thrown an arm up over her face, as if she were shielding her eyes from something.
She leaned slightly against the post beside her, and, with a hand thrown up and half shielding her face, she stared out across the coulee to the hill beyond.
Kent watched it and hardly breathed, but Val was shielding her face from the searing heat with her arms, and so did not see what happened then.
Master flung at him, shielding mouth and eyes with cupped hands.
The orderly, bare-headed, was shielding eyes and face from the sand-blast, with hands that trembled.
With a startled oath he reined in sharply and, shielding his eyes from the sun-glare, remained staring straight in front of him.
But still it was there, the crumpled heap of tattered clothing and human remains, the awry, heavy shoes still shielding the fleshless bones of the feet.
Already my mind had ceased to dwell upon the narrowness of our escape; I was thinking of Guinea as she had stood, shielding the light with her hand.
She looked up at me, shielding the light with her hand to keep the breeze from blowing it out, and smiled, and in her smile there was no coolness, and yet there was naught to show me that she had passed an anxious night.
A certain morning a panic began in the southwestern trench, for the soldiers had seen distinctly a woman in a blue robe shielding the church and the cloister.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shielding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
