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    Use "shut" in a sentence

    shut example sentences

    shut


    shuts


    shutting


    1. Jorma quickly shut the door


    2. In the end, my story took about 7000 words to relay, thanks for listening and would you shut the door behind you on your way out?


    3. “I didn’t… they were… shut up! I did what had to be done!”


    4. Yes, the whole native data system is shut down for the forty or so hours of dark every week, no messages can be sent or picked up on the old crystals or the new


    5. He stammered and opened his mouth, but then shut it again and turned away


    6. I watch him and keep my mouth shut, not wanting to disturb him


    7. Other people’s thoughts shut me up


    8. “Fine, whatever,” Johnny said as he shut down the connection


    9. Frank shut down the conveyor belts before there was a huge mess on the floor


    10. Men are mono tracking; if a phone call comes they would ask for the TV to shut, child to stop crying and so on

    11. "You keep your mouth shut too," he told Estwig


    12. ’ I assured him, taken aback that he should doubt my ability to keep my mouth shut


    13. one of the doors from swinging shut


    14. For nearly ten years I shut myself away from all


    15. I also reasoned that if I could get local politics on board that this would give the Gardai and my worm of a boss Peter Dooley pause for thought before they tried to shut me down


    16. They give John a shove, he lurches into the room and they shut the door


    17. If he shut his eyes


    18. " I fell into the cell on the floor and he banged the door shut


    19. He seemed satisfied that I was gone quiet and it slid shut again


    20. Why then, was she shut up in the wasted mountains, where winter was the

    21. I shut it away


    22. towards the front of his battered old car, and slammed shut the bonnet


    23. "Shut up! That's enough


    24. I tried to shut him up


    25. She squeezed her eyes shut together and wished, but no data at all arrived


    26. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut


    27. "Shut up you fucking tart


    28. Reaching the “void space”, we observe the image of the flame which is shaped in the darkness of our shut eyes


    29. They would simply slam shut the doors and ignore me


    30. Then, just before the door slammed shut again, The Kid poked his head into the cell and said, “Not promising anything, but I’ll see what I can do

    31. Take your feet off them, and they’ll shut down


    32. "Well, I’m not going to shut ‘em down! Kill the sensory feedback!" She screamed once and writhed


    33. When he received a call from his door, he felt guilty and shut everything down before answering


    34. All 30 of them shut him out


    35. The cab doors opened and shut


    36. " He strode without slowing thru the door and Bahkmar shut it and armed it


    37. I've shut down all the cherubs in my space by the way


    38. Doors crashed shut behind me


    39. The front doors of the van banged shut and I heard the gears whine as the driver engaged first


    40. I stared straight ahead of me, screwing my eyes tightly shut, as if this would soften the blow

    41. With my eyes still tightly shut I began to seek the miracle


    42. Why then, was she shut up in the wasted mountains, where winter was the only season and fresh meat such a dream?


    43. With that he stubbed out his cigarette, walked away from the man in black towards the front of his battered old car, and slammed shut the bonnet


    44. Between them they manhandled the two ruffians to the rubbish store, threw them in and rammed the door shut, using a nearby length of discarded metal bar to jam the door firmly


    45. shut shop for the winter


    46. in the seasoned timbers slammed shut at the insect call


    47. Fred shut and double bolted the door


    48. Cosmicblasto eyes shut almost immediately, grateful for the warm


    49. The conversation is done, is clipped and flipped shut


    50. all thick wood, padlocked shut,













































    1. ‘Go to work, you cheeky monkey!’ I laughed as he shuts the briefcase with a final snap


    2. He shuts the door, comes back and sits beside John


    3. Dave opens the frig, peeks in, shuts it quickly


    4. John shuts the door of the Jeep


    5. Russ walks in, shuts the door


    6. Jed ignores the remark, leaves, shuts the door behind him


    7. “Yes, but I work only six hours a day, whereas you work ten hours and you aren't paid any overtime! If I worked so many hours as you, I would earn more than 250,000 per month!” I reply and she shuts up


    8. He shuts the window,


    9. shuts his eyes, breathes in deeply


    10.  In-memory cookies: An in-memory cookie goes away when the user shuts the browser down

    11. ‘We’ll need to get moving soon, don’t you think?’ I said as he puts the last box into the boot and shuts the lid


    12. Reluctantly, he shuts the curtains then comes over to me and puts his arms around me


    13. ‘Jo, have you got a minute, please?’ Jim is standing in the doorway looking at a sheaf of papers in his hand, he looks up and, seeing my face, quickly comes in and shuts the door behind him


    14. He shuts the map book, puts on his sun glasses and turns the ignition key


    15. "What?" Jock shuts his mouth and tries to look bright and breezy


    16. Every so often a room door opens and shuts


    17. Billy sits back and shuts his eyes


    18. Billy shuts his eyes and tries to imagine perfect silence, but as he does so he realises that he is wrong, that this man, Vic as he has called him, will not kill him


    19. Billy shuts his eyes, hoping that silence will finally come, that the gun will disappear or morph into something more useful, a bottle of brandy, perhaps, but nothing happens, nothing except for the sound of his on board stereo system breaking through the hangover haze in his head


    20. His inner conscience is getting agitated, yelling at Billy that he should take his hand off the butt of the pistol in his pocket, but Billy shuts the last open window to his soul

    21. Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of


    22. Patrice shuts the door behind her as she steps out onto a deck, drink in hand


    23. turns a glare on a smiling Tyrone as Tyrone shuts


    24. Each one shuts himself up in the cask of self,


    25. And stubbornness shuts the door to reconciliation


    26. Eastern belief that shame shuts down the third chakra,


    27. transistor shuts off when no voltage is applied to collector-base and LED goes off


    28. The door opens and it shuts with a bang


    29. She shuts the door again


    30. even a fool, when he holds his peace, it is considered wise, and he who shuts his lips is highly regarded as the man of understanding

    31. Shuts off the TV


    32. oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing


    33. · "If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered" (Proverbs 21:13, NIV)


    34. 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my


    35. So when they see or hear rain, the mind shuts down


    36. A bureaucratic determination that the spotted owl is an endangered species shuts down whole industries and towns related to timber harvesting in the Pacific Northwest


    37. If one door shuts, another will open


    38. And, within a few seconds, Anup shuts his eyes and resumes his sleep


    39. But as he shuts the door, a gust extinguishes the candle's flame—and I am temporarily left alone in the darkness


    40. She leads me back in the house, at the end of the hallway in the study and shuts the door behind us

    41. The doors begin to shut, and my heart shuts with them, but then I see him


    42. He drags me into a side room, an office, shuts the door on Emily, and turns back to face me


    43. As Emily shuts her eyes with exhaustion, I pull her closer to rest her head on my lap


    44. He shuts his eyes for a brief moment then stares at me


    45. I wait until he shuts the door before making my way to the shower


    46. Zachary shuts his eyes for a moment and stares at me with a mischievous smile


    47. Sean shuts his eyes briefly


    48. I fly through the small opening before it shuts


    49. He turns and shuts the door, sliding the latch at the top to the side


    50. The door shuts, and I open my eyes













































    1. He felt like shutting down the houri on him, or better yet, transform it into a whirling malestrom of rusty, broken knives that chased him for days, something reminiscent of what he had to endure


    2. carefully shutting the gate behind him with a final wave


    3. closing, shutting out the sky,


    4. Now that was an interesting documentary! Amazing what new archaeological insights they’ve had into the Viking houses in the Hebrides – well put together, too … but why do they have to put these things on so late at night? Oh stop yawning, Sally! Turn that TV off and get on with shutting up the house for the night


    5. This was unlimited revenge for shutting her out and she'd have it on its knees and paying through the nose in no time


    6. Then he goes outside, shutting the door behind him


    7. Most of the people here had been to Alan’s universe and most agreed that he consumed an undue share of cherub space for his rank, but none was advocating shutting it down or banning his cherubs


    8. She retreated to safety inside of herself, shutting down


    9. She concentrated on shutting out the sounds she could hear from further down the corridor which suggested that Mickey was with Sheila as, tentatively, she crept along to the bedroom, uncertain what she would find


    10. ‘Yes …’ Andy said, hurriedly shutting his mouth on the gabbled explanation which was hanging on the end of his tongue

    11. His breathing is becoming laboured and he can feel his body slowly but inexorably shutting down


    12. The new eyes have the ability to do some local operations for a few minutes after the message appears that says the local data service is shutting down for the dark


    13. shutting it again as quickly as he could in order to keep out


    14. Heather scampered down the hallway to her room, shutting and locking


    15. After shutting off the car, she


    16. Alternatively, it indicates that you are blocking something out or you are shutting yourself out


    17. If you have negative feelings toward this color, then it indicates that you are shutting off your emotions and not letting people in


    18. He knew, now, the ship was running on emergency reserves, never intended to go this far, hence the shutting down of shields


    19. But my eyes were shutting and no matter how hard I fought to keep them open I was losing the battle I made one last desperate try but I lost and the shutters came down plunging me into darkness and despair


    20. that drank the light of the torch for an instant before shutting and being pulled away with a shriek so

    21. ” She entered the room shutting the door behind her I knew she was right in what she had said but I was left to smoke and pace the corridor and I almost ended up climbing the walls as I waited for any news


    22. Shutting the trap door she shoved her tongue down his


    23. He grabbed the box and walked out of the room, shutting the door without looking back


    24. Gina said nothing; it was as if her mind was shutting down


    25. A part of her mind registered the clank of the steel gate shutting, the throwing of the lock


    26. Shutting the French doors, Sheena knelt by him, her hand hovering over his face, not knowing what to do


    27. The room was dimly lit and the blue curtains were drawn, shutting out the faint light from the stormy skies outside


    28. repentance, these shall also come to realize that they too were created for My glory, to reveal the power of My as adamant stones, refusing to be broken, resisting always My correction and shutting their mouths tight against might


    29. "It's the likes of you that need shutting up in small crates, not poor innocent animals


    30. With that, he bundled me into the car, shutting the door with devastating finality

    31. She gritted her teeth and turned her face to the side to see neither and to pull her throat from the dagger, but she was unsuccessful at shutting out what was happening to her


    32. I swallowed and nodded back, stepping all the way into the room and shutting the door


    33. She gasped, shutting the letter box flap as quietly as she could with trembling fingers


    34. As I fled down the companionway ladder, shutting the hatch behind me, I heard Tracy's furious voice: "Why was she at the wheel in this weather? She has no experience


    35. Shutting the computer down, he swung around in the office chair and nodded


    36. He pulled himself back on the thin line, then disconnected by pushing the button and shutting it off


    37. “I am shutting off the musica, senhor,” he responded irately


    38. The kid trimmed out, shutting down the throttles


    39. I thought I was shutting the simulation down


    40. We've just been shutting our eyes to the big worth-while things and squinting them on the little things that don't really matter a pin's worth

    41. “I'll wait my time” Chloe said to herself in her mind, as she saw Nolan in his grave with his eyes closed and feeling how he was shutting the sounds of the world around him out by the best of his ability


    42. He picked up the red journal and left the room, shutting the doors tightly behind him


    43. My mind was wandering, a clear sign that my body was dangerously close to shutting down


    44. I let out a cry of agony, shutting my eyes half way from unadulterated exhaustion as I felt my body being hauled over something soft and warm, secure in my belief that I would be safe now


    45. "Thanks," said Rose shutting the bathroom door once more


    46. Was he well and truly lost to me? That notion stroked pain that had me shutting my eyes for a second


    47. Her shutting me out was the worst of the two


    48. My numbed mind is shutting out much of the environment


    49. ” He salutes and turns to walk out, shutting the door behind him


    50. She closed her dark eyes tightly as if shutting out the calm voice of










































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    Synonyms for "shut"

    close shut exclude keep out shut out closed unopen secure seal fasten lock sealed fastened locked confine enclose imprison jail bar prohibit preclude

    "shut" definitions

    move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut


    become closed


    prevent from entering; shut out


    not open


    used especially of mouth or eyes