In southern Vanuatu, a nakamal may be a large, sheltered outdoor space, such as under a banyan tree.

We were inside a cave; glancing up, I could see the narrow gap through which we'd fortuitously fallen into this sheltered space.

He designed the entrances to be sheltered spaces.

His heartbeat seemed to fill the sheltered space with its drumming.

Gardeners can help by creating sheltered, protected spaces burgeoning with a wide variety of food plants.

A torrent of cold rain locked them into the sheltered space.

Nuzzling against a wall, she took refuge in a sheltered space.

Its mass had separated the flow of the mud, leaving a wide, clear, somewhat sheltered space.

She cited exposure as a factor - but temperatures that clear May night were in the 50's, and the alley was a sheltered space.

The rising arc of the building forms a sheltered communal space between the building and the wooded hill to the west.