sheltering

Speech parts

1. sheltering - Noun

2. sheltering - Verb

Meaning

of Shelter

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

guardian guard cover protect protection screen supporting housing save safe defend defensive covering preserve protective
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Antonyms

baring attacking challenging confronting endangering brawling
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Phrases with the word

sheltering lounge chair sheltering place

Examples

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose. Paul Bowles

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering. Gilles Deleuze

And thus the soul pities God and feels itself pitied by him; loves Him and feels loved by Him, sheltering its misery in the bosom of the eternal and infinite misery, which, in eternalizing itself and infinitizing itself, is the supreme happiness itself. Miguel de Unamuno

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate. Dorothy Day

It is good sheltering under an old hedge. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

shelteree shelterer shelterin sheltering lounge chair shelteringly shelterless