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refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
The children shut up when their father approached
How To Use button up In A Sentence
- Joel was wearing a pair of loose, light blue jeans, a blue on white striped button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, and a nice pair of black shoes.
- I was wearing a button up shirt pajama set so I could feel Colton's rough, callused palm directly on my skin.
- All our indignation to the contrary, we prefer the complicated and difficult: we enjoy our buttons; we are withheld only by our queer sex-pride from wearing garments that button up in the back -- indeed, on what we frankly call our 'best clothes,' we _have the buttons_ though we _dare not button_ with them. The Perfect Gentleman
- I was wearing a button up shirt pajama set so I could feel Colton's rough, callused palm directly on my skin.
- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We went ahead and put a pingle (ph) shifter on it, so now all you will have to do to shift is there will be a button up here. CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2007
- He was sporting a blue and white striped button up shirt and dark blue jeans.
- Well, button up your favorite flannel shirt, pull on your skinny jeans, and head out to Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg for local brews, food by Blue Ribbon, live bands and games of tenpin at the only LEED certified bowling alley in the world! Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli | Inhabitat
- He can't do his top button up.
- She was wearing a jacket over a button up shirt with a pair of worn jeans and chaps.
- Button up your bootstraps, tie on your bonnet, and throw your cabin door open wide for this wholesome tale from the heart of America's 18th-century homeland.