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    Use "shut out" in a sentence

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    shut out


    1. Shut out by regiment, the ice clawed horde persisted,


    2. For the last few weeks he had shut out the sounds of life, preferring the solitude of personal contemplation to the banality of human contact, but here in the soft tawny light of the lounge bar at the Red Lion those trivial voices broke through on the back of an ethereal sub tone that slowly built up throughout the evening until, towards closing time, Ken realised that he was listening to the same song being played over and over again on the jukebox


    3. had shut out the sounds of life, preferring the solitude of personal


    4. He tries to remember; speeding tickets, unpaid fines, tax fraud, anything that might shut out the possibility of a name other than his daughter’s being mentioned


    5. and Alistair, found himself slightly shut out of the conversations and


    6. With the wind shut out, Emma assessed the puddle of ice and water she had come to rest in


    7. together and shut out the sky above, and it’s not


    8. trying to shut out all negative thoughts


    9. She couldn’t shut out the memories of Jeff and that


    10. their thick, heavy boughs to shut out the snow and cold

    11. I loved him so much but while he wallowed in his self-destruction I was shut out, pushed behind a wall he kept building higher and higher


    12. William ignored the noise of gunfire and fallen men, shut out visions of flags hoisted high above horses’ heads


    13. He immediately felt shut out, as if running errands on her behalf


    14. A second volley of shots hit the wheelhouse, high this time, just under the ceiling, and Colling clapped his hands over his ears and clamped his eyes closed to shut out the noise and the fragments flying through the air


    15. He sat down on the couch and closed his eyes to shut out all distractions


    16. “It would be healing for him, I can help him in the meantime if he will let me” Tim looked around, scanning the face of Jasmin and feeling the resistance peel away as Max realised this guy wasn't someone to shut out


    17. Maggie was glad that the castle and the disturbing scenes connected with it were shut out of the room


    18. For a very long time now I’ve completely shut out my entire past, and what it meant to me


    19. And Lucky dealt with hurt in two ways, either she lashed out or she shut out


    20. continues to flow and that nobody feels that they have been shut out

    21. been shut out of the conversation


    22. 14 And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again


    23. Shut out all of the things that you’re not


    24. me silent and shut in, but keeping them shut out of what is real


    25. would completely shut out his own pain


    26. I wonder how she is, he thought dreamily as drooping eyelids shut out the heavenly view


    27. 10 The planks of the deck above them barred out the light and shut out the day on every side so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage


    28. Moshe willed himself to shut out all of the noise


    29. Give heed therefore you who glory in your wealth lest those who are needy should groan and their groans should ascend to the Lord and you be shut out with all your goods beyond the gate of the tower


    30. When the wind was shut out of the barn by closing the stable door, our breath made

    31. spheres (the physical and the astral) They are shut out from the astral mag-


    32. I stayed under the covers, desperately trying to shut out the world


    33. shut out the world, briefly but intensely


    34. she needed to shut out body signals to focus on what Laura


    35. 'Death!' he answered, his gaze still fixed on the brooding jade arches that shut out the sky


    36. They rounded the mysterious bend that shut out the sight of the sea, and sunset found them forging steadily against the sluggish flow, avoiding sandbars where strange reptiles coiled


    37. Chocolate dripped down his hands and smeared his face, she watched with silent glee as he made the first attempt to rejoin the world that he had shut out


    38. If the things you do with your hands, or the things you see with your eyes give offense in the progress of the kingdom, sacrifice these cherished idols, for it is better to enter the kingdom minus many of the beloved things of life rather than to cling to these idols and find yourself shut out of the kingdom


    39. them the focus of those 20 minutes and shut out everything else that might try to


    40. The microchip cooled quickly in response to his thoughts as it then shut out ninety-nine percent of the transmissions

    41. She drew the curtains to shut out the dark night and as the darkness had come down, it brought with it a chill that made the house feel cold


    42. Edward Wachtel and his wife Lillian opened up the DeSoto Motel to accommodate the African Americans who had been shut out of the other places


    43. She was silent, trying to shut out memories she didn’t want to return


    44. Those who had been shut out and lived on subsistence wages, in cheap tenements or rural shacks along unpaved back roads, far removed from any talk of black destiny


    45. That changed with the nineteenth amendment passed in August 1920 – if you were African American, you were shut out of the voting booth, no matter what sex


    46. Sherman’s campaign of devastation was so controlled that the press were shut out from coverage of what was going on


    47. If he refuses to see me now without some very good reasons, then the United States will be shut out of both the Western Pacific and of Europe after this war


    48. doing so, had shut out any joy that thoughts of him would bring


    49. He tried to recall what he had seen in this compartment before the cover plate shut out the light


    50. It was getting more and more difficult to shut out the voices that were shouting louder and louder in her head














































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    Synonyms for "shut out"

    outlaw exile bar boycott forbid close