How to Use shelter-in-place in a Sentence

shelter-in-place

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Mayor Cosby Johnson said a shelter-in-place order was in effect for the city.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • During the search, residents in the Beach Creek community were told to shelter-in-place, the school district said.
    CBS News, 2 June 2023
  • 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 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
  • In Nashville, the rain was so intense that a shelter-in-place warning was issued an hour before Swift's opener, Gracie Abrams, took the stage.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Four additional shelter-in-place messages were sent out to the public throughout the hazmat spill clean-up until 5:06 p.m. the next day.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The shooting prompted the university to issue a shelter-in-place order while police searched and cleared the areas.
    Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Soon, an official shelter-in-place order beeped across the cell phone network, and an apartment building a block away went on lockdown.
    Ryan Young, CNN, 4 May 2023
  • Police later began lifting shelter-in-place orders in the city.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Police took two suspects into custody, lifted the shelter-in-place warning and reopened the streets around 6:30 a.m., police said.
    oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The Tuesday evening shooting sent students running and forced hourslong shelter-in-place orders as police combed the campus for a suspect.
    Paradise Afshar, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Kole continued to rely on Twitter during the manhunt, when a citywide shelter-in-place directive made on-the-street sources harder to come by.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Riggs said that officers directed everyone to shelter-in-place to stay safe from an active shooter in the area.
    Riley Bunch, ajc, 4 May 2023
  • The escape prompted a shelter-in-place order Wednesday at George Washington University and the school canceled all of its evening classes and events.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Under shelter-in-place orders, many anxious members of the community had to grieve the bloodshed in isolation.
    Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Several communities in the area have spent the days since the shooting under shelter-in-place warnings, with schools canceled and residents urged to stay indoors.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • All inbound and outbound traffic was halted and remained so Sunday, and the shelter-in-place recommendation was still in place in the afternoon.
    Liz Kreutz, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Jonesl noted that evacuation and shelter-in-place orders may change as wind directions change.
    Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • When the shelter-in-place order went into effect in 2020, biophilic tones like browns and greens mimicked the connection with the great outdoors that so many people desperately craved.
    Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Since opening in 2020 during shelter-in-place, the Filipino- and Indian-owned storefront has become one of the only remaining spaces that specializes in niche hip-hop, soul, jazz, and funk.
    Alan Chazaro, SPIN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • By daybreak, surrounding communities were under a shelter-in-place warning that would last through the day as a container burned.
    Gregory Barber, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • And a storm that was likely to turn into a hurricane with shelter-in-place orders was quickly approaching, Fernandez said.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024

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