How to Use shelter-in-place in a Sentence

shelter-in-place

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  • The next month, Idaho went into shelter-in-place mode with the rest of the world.
    — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 12 Mar. 2025
  • A lot of people tried them while in shelter-in-place mode.
    — Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The shelter-in-place order was lifted around 10:15 p.m.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The shelter-in-place warning was lifted around 8:30 p.m.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Much like Suzy, Rafaeli was trying to make sense of the world during those lonely, dark hours of Covid’s shelter-in-place.
    — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The Navy said other sites on the base were not under threat and not put under a shelter-in-place order.
    — Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Employees above the first floor of the building were given the shelter-in-place order.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 June 2024
  • The shelter-in-place order was lifted by 8 a.m. After the race, some questioned the decision to start the race on time.
    — The Enquirer, 9 May 2023
  • After the fire grew, the city issued a shelter-in-place warning to the city and surrounding areas.
    — Raven Brunner, People.com, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Some questioned why the shelter-in-place order was lifted if a suspect had not been found.
    — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 May 2023
  • The shelter-in-place was canceled around 5:15 p.m., according to a second alert.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 15 July 2025
  • On June 15, for example, the offices in Tel Aviv were closed as part of a shelter-in-place order in Israel.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
  • Farzaneh shared a video of herself in the locker room of the sauna area on her TikTok account, just when the shelter-in-place order was lifted.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
  • The crash knocked out power and the area and resulted in a temporary shelter-in-place order for homes within 1,000 feet of the scene.
    — Kristina Sgueglia, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The City of Deer Park issued a shelter-in-place for all residents due to the chemical release.
    — Allyson Ackerman, Chron, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The other schools in town were put into a shelter-in-place mode, according to police.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Olin told Newsweek that the shelter-in-place order was lifted after 45 minutes, with the leak contained.
    — Dan Gooding shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
  • The shelter-in-place was lifted a short time later, NBC 10 reported.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Police in Falls Township had issued a shelter-in-place warning amid the search for the suspect that has since been lifted.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Just before noon, the City of Brooklyn Park issued a shelter-in-place order over a 3-mile radius at the local golf course.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Mayor Cosby Johnson said a shelter-in-place order was in effect for the city.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • No injuries were reported, and the lockdown and shelter-in-place were lifted.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Feb. 2025
  • During the search, residents in the Beach Creek community were told to shelter-in-place, the school district said.
    — CBS News, 2 June 2023
  • Police were planning to issue a shelter-in-place order for a two-block radius around the 400 block of Commodore Drive, which is a few blocks from the Kwik Trip.
    — Brian Arola, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The public comment portion regarding the agenda item on Pride Month was cut short due to the shelter-in-place order.
    — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • The shelter-in-place order was lifted at around 8:45 p.m. with an announcement on X that a suspect was in custody.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
  • The city of Deer Park said in an advisory that there was no shelter-in-place order for residents.
    — CBS News, 6 May 2023
  • The college said on its website that a shelter-in-place order has been issued for students on campus.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • According to the Deer Park city officials, a shelter-in-place has not been used for Deer Park residents.
    — Kennedy Sessions, Chron, 5 May 2023
  • Carroll said the group had to shelter-in-place in Israel, going in and out of bomb shelters for several days.
    — Kailey Schuyler, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026

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