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How to use shut-in in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word shut-in? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
At first she was bedridden and then progressed into a wheelchair, but she remained a shut-in.
I'm actually moved when I think of how much joy I can bring into the life of this well-to-do, wheelchair-bound shut-in.
He notes that these shut-in wells take approximately 8 months to bring on stream.
I'm finding I don't have much to write about after a week of being a sick shut-in.
Or maybe you can visit a sick friend or bring a meal to a shut-in.
Emma and Erna go regularly to thrift store at the Lutheran Church, and buy for the sick and shut-in or anyone else they think just might need a treasure they spy.
Help a friend's child with homework, or visit an elderly shut-in.
John Brown, perennial shut-in, spends a lot of time indoors.
What with water problems indoors and the horrid wet weather outdoors, it's been a shut-in day once more.
Significant declines in natural gas commodity prices could result in the shut-in of some of our natural gas production.
In the vigour of his years, we hope too that his mind is not finally shut-in, but of the improvable and enlargeable sort.
After spending a long, hard winter as a gym rat shut-in, you're probably hot to trot outdoors.
She may have thought teaching her shut-in son to shoot was therapeutic.
Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo suffers from a shut-in that limits its economic development and exacerbates its armed militias-driven insecurity.
Who could ever count what it is worth to a crippled child to be taught how to swim, or to an elderly shut-in to have someone do the shopping and drop in for a chat once or twice a week?
Hurricane Katrina caused temporary down time on Eugene Island 339 in August, and the field has been shut-in since September due to Hurricane Rita.
Examples from Classical Literature
The thoughts awakened by the sight of the shut-in girls were not happy ones.
It might have seemed an echo, only there was no place for an echo in this shut-in spot.
Ive just come back from Alaska, and it seems so shut-in there.
Through clefts in our shut-in way we could see snow on the mountains.
Uncle Darcy is out again with it, after his long, shut-in winter.
And she had a shut-in friend, to whom I must write, of course.
It's only in books that a shut-in is 32 angelic all the time!
He could not content himself, however, in this shut-in country.
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