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Definition of air-raid shelter in English: air-raid shelternoun A building or structure designed to protect people from bombs dropped during air raids. Example sentencesExamples - The vaults were last used 60 years ago as air-raid shelters when Hitler's bombs rained down during the Second World War.
- The prisoners were made to reinforce the cellar with concrete so it could serve as an air-raid shelter.
- The streets were a toddler's wonderland of rubble, smashed window frames, half-demolished air-raid shelters.
- A communal air-raid shelter had been dug outside the Eleventh Earl public house.
- It was taken by Richard Peter in an air-raid shelter in 1946.
- After being bundled into the air-raid shelter, we could hear the drone of aircraft passing over-head, on their way to bomb Belfast ship-yards.
- There is also an Edwardian greenhouse, potting shed, garage and an air-raid shelter.
- The condition was first spotted among survivors of the Blitz in World War II who slept in deck chairs in air-raid shelters.
- If someone arrived at an air-raid shelter and said " good morning ", it meant they had been sleeping.
- They reminded me of second world war air-raid shelters.
- When war broke out, Sir Ken was studying architecture and helping to design air-raid shelters.
- One man suggested on Tuesday this week that there were several air-raid shelters built into the banks of the river.
- Built like an air-raid shelter, he was less prepared than us to tolerate the delays.
- The space occupied by the air-raid shelters should have been cleared away long ago to provide more public space and not an area for profit-making parking.
- The museum will be transformed into a war-zone, with windows taped-up, air-raid shelters and propaganda posters.
- Even within air-raid shelters, social groups remained very much segregated.
- We could all spend our nights in air-raid shelters, rough army blankets over our shoulders, singing songs of defiance and fretting alongside neighbours or even perfect strangers.
- The girls were sent to the air-raid shelter, as the fire spread through the house.
- He firewatched during the Blitz in Liverpool, retaining vivid memories of digging out bodies from an air-raid shelter which had received a direct hit.
- So when he and his pals ran off, and I followed them to an old air-raid shelter, I could hear them but not see them.
Definition of air-raid shelter in US English: air-raid shelternoun A building or structure designed to protect people from bombs dropped during air raids. Example sentencesExamples - It was taken by Richard Peter in an air-raid shelter in 1946.
- When war broke out, Sir Ken was studying architecture and helping to design air-raid shelters.
- After being bundled into the air-raid shelter, we could hear the drone of aircraft passing over-head, on their way to bomb Belfast ship-yards.
- The girls were sent to the air-raid shelter, as the fire spread through the house.
- If someone arrived at an air-raid shelter and said " good morning ", it meant they had been sleeping.
- The space occupied by the air-raid shelters should have been cleared away long ago to provide more public space and not an area for profit-making parking.
- A communal air-raid shelter had been dug outside the Eleventh Earl public house.
- The prisoners were made to reinforce the cellar with concrete so it could serve as an air-raid shelter.
- There is also an Edwardian greenhouse, potting shed, garage and an air-raid shelter.
- Built like an air-raid shelter, he was less prepared than us to tolerate the delays.
- So when he and his pals ran off, and I followed them to an old air-raid shelter, I could hear them but not see them.
- The vaults were last used 60 years ago as air-raid shelters when Hitler's bombs rained down during the Second World War.
- We could all spend our nights in air-raid shelters, rough army blankets over our shoulders, singing songs of defiance and fretting alongside neighbours or even perfect strangers.
- Even within air-raid shelters, social groups remained very much segregated.
- They reminded me of second world war air-raid shelters.
- One man suggested on Tuesday this week that there were several air-raid shelters built into the banks of the river.
- He firewatched during the Blitz in Liverpool, retaining vivid memories of digging out bodies from an air-raid shelter which had received a direct hit.
- The museum will be transformed into a war-zone, with windows taped-up, air-raid shelters and propaganda posters.
- The streets were a toddler's wonderland of rubble, smashed window frames, half-demolished air-raid shelters.
- The condition was first spotted among survivors of the Blitz in World War II who slept in deck chairs in air-raid shelters.
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