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How to use shut in a sentence

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The visitor centre was shut, but all we needed was the information board recommending a range of walks.
Ever resourceful, she wadded some toilet paper between it and the door frame and found that it stayed shut.
So, instead of going around with our eyes shut hoping the problem will go away why don't we all wake up to what's going on around us.
He immediately notified the pilot to shut down the engine and recommended the pilot abort the sortie.
To make your rule even more effective, shut your phone off when you enter the car, or leave in the backseat, out of reach.
And the series was implausibly shut out by both the Golden Globe and sag Awards.
And if the patients whined or annoyed her, she allegedly killed them to shut them up.
Over the years, several MPs have alleged cover-ups or suggested that investigations were shut down by senior security officials.
So why did they shut down an online shop selling t-shirts in support of ai Weiwei?
Consequently they had given false readings which, in turn, had caused the autopilot system to shut down.
You have to terminate the program before the computer will shut down properly.
A Change.org petition to the British Embassy advocating for attention on the case was shut down, after 516 signatures.
When the towers collapsed, my building was shrouded in a debris cloud that shut out the light of day and muffled the sounds of firemen shouting and sirens wailing.
He attaches a large lock to the door and snaps it shut, locking us in the cell.
The arsenal was the main employer in Woolwich, but it was shut down after WWII when the Empire disappeared and the army shrunk.
Human trials of the Ebola vaccine have been temporarily shut down due to adverse side effects.
The wading pool has been shut but the swimming complex remains open.
The traps of Anti-Oedipus are those of humor: so many invitations to let oneself be put out, to take one's leave of the text and slam the door shut.
The Democratic presidential administration refuses to budge, and the government is shut down.
If the recovery agency is shut down, blackbird would likely pick up the rescue business as it is outsourced.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He entered the air-lock and shut the first door when the air-pressure was right.
Why don't you jump out the window, Roger, remembering to shut the airlock after you?
Within a minute the men crowded into the air-lock, and shut the outer portal.
As a preliminary to acquiring it is he to be shut out from the society of his fellows?
But I must tell you how the rascals tried to shut up, 'administratively,' you understand, Mlle. Palmyre.
Should she be shut out of all these and affiliate with the wilderness of the New World?
And the beard shut out the indications which the mouth and chin might have afforded.
No, 'faith, nor Mary Lafferty either, that turned me from the door and shut it agin me.
And, as he spoke, he instinctively opened and shut his long Albacete knife.
With that he restored the goblet to the secret shelf, put back the drawer, and shut the ambry door.
What is the use of a beautiful face, if one must be shut up in her own apartment for ever?
It soon becomes shut off from the slit-like posterior part of the archenteron.
I said to him, just as he opened the door for me and I went in with an armload of wood, and he shut the door after me.
He complained of the shut mouth, the claquement des dents, and the predominance of aspirates in our pronunciation.
The coffin-lid was screwed down, and Johnny's baby-face shut out from them for ever.
I tried to find out if they'd put anyone into the apartment, but balling sobered up a bit by that time and shut down on the talk.
And do you for a moment think I am going to be shut up like a bandicoot in a hole, while others fight for life and liberty?
Boone clamped his mouth shut and stood with thick, muscular arms crossed over his barrel chest.
All the shops were shut, and many of them were barricaded within and without.
And they are going down into Bedfordshire, of all places, to be shut up for a month!
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