Sentence Examples

1. When the domestic chores were done the women, protected from the wind and the sun by high-domed hats secured with scarves tied tightly beneath their chins, would go and labour alongside their men, planting, weeding, harvesting and partaking in the view.
2. It was an elaborate system, protected by secret knocks, passwords, and handshakes.
3. There he saw dazzling camellias expanding themselves, with flowers which were giving forth their last colours and perfumes, not on bushes, but on trees, and within bamboo enclosures, cherry, plum, and apple trees, which the Japanese cultivate rather for their blossoms than their fruit, and which queerly-fashioned, grinning scarecrows protected from the sparrows, pigeons, ravens, and other voracious birds.
4. Above all else, the blood must be protected from everyone.
5. As we near Yaiza the vineyards come into view, with their orderly rows of cinder pit plantings protected by dry stone walls.
6. Adopting a defensive stance at his back, she protected him while he centered himself with a lightning-quick bit of meditation.
7. The backs of the seats were thrown back, bedsteads carefully packed were rolled out by an ingenious system, berths were suddenly improvised, and each traveller had soon at his disposition a comfortable bed, protected from curious eyes by thick curtains.
8. A part of him still tended to think of her as the young, vulnerable girl he had instinctively protected, but another part of him was aware that she was no longer that girl.
9. The ground was dry here, protected by its natural ceiling.
10. If accurate, then plans are afoot to build a resort on the southern edge of La Quemada, one that cuts into the mountainside on land protected under the biosphere ruling.