How To Use Shut in In A Sentence

  • Engineers from British Waterways, which manages canals across the country, are carrying out an extensive study on the possible re-opening of the waterway which shut in 1922.
  • The cat was shut in the garage all night.
  • The dog howled when it was shut in the house.
  • Without ceremony, the woman slammed the door shut in my face.
  • We had to continually step over it and we had to keep our mouths shut in case we swallowed some of the hundreds of bluebottles swarming around the dirt.
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  • Porters, hucksters, errand boys went through with basket and handbarrow, passing across aisles and nave before the very screen that shut in choir and altar. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
  • So I keep my trap shut in the café while Neo and his painfully cool friends rave over what we've just seen.
  • For most of the day they're shut in a darkened cupboard while Mrs Mooney works as a supermarket cleaner.
  • I suspect those who succeed in humiliating people this way probably deserve to be single and shut in their boxy homes watching DVDs while growing fat on ice cream.
  • And how was the sunshine that gilded her fine counte-nance, shut in! Sir Charles Grandison
  • In addition to these store closures, the eight remaining Time concessions within Office World stores will shut in September.
  • Somniloquies rise like the drowned their lungfuls of air ripple as indecipherable a vision translucent as halite in opaque huelessness the night of it meandering breath is the sea rote I float to the pupil wade the green iris shut in its eyelid these thoughts dream me and not I them how from out of silence clarities swim The Night Shore
  • The man in the fur cap, and the potboy rush out; a scene of riot and confusion ensues; half the Irishmen get shut out, and the other half get shut in; the potboy is knocked among the tubs in no time; the landlord hits everybody, and everybody hits the landlord; the barmaids scream; the police come in; the rest is a confused mixture of arms, legs, staves, torn coats, shouting, and struggling. Sketches by Boz
  • I squeezed my eyes shut in an attempt to cool the searing burn in the centre of my brain. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
  • It was a noble valley, now shut in by high canyon walls, and again opening out into beautiful stretches, wide and long, with pasture shoulder-high in the bottoms, meadows dotted with flowers, and with clumps of timberspruce – virgin and magnificent. The Night-Born
  • Thus shut in, its hatchways looked like the entrance to deep vaults or mines; especially as her men were wheeling out of her hold some kind of ore, which might have been gold ore, so scrupulous were they in evening the bushel measures, in which they transferred it to the quay; and so particular was the captain, a dark-skinned whiskerando, in a Maltese cap and tassel, in standing over the sailors, with his pencil and memorandum-book in hand. Redburn. His First Voyage
  • It was quite a dramatic moment… quite frightening… and then the blow-out preventer was shut in, and it calmed down.
  • The dog howled when it was shut in the house.
  • In the meantime young people continue to be shut in rooms to slowly curl up and die.
  • Your last life is shut in the safe under charms only Gabriel can break. THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
  • One seems shut inside a shell of sickness, a miasma of illness. ON CATS
  • [8] The exact spelling of Bunyan is here followed; but whether he meant 'coped,' 'covered,' or 'cooped' -- inclosed, or shut in -- must be left to the reader's judgment. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
  • I didn't realise until he'd been in bed and asleep for half an hour last night that my bedding was shut in his room where I'd tidied it away before Sal and Dan came around, so I had to use a thin cushion for a pillow and a travel rug instead of a duvet.
  • They remained shut in the cupboardlike room for hours at a time. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • “Tell your mistress the puir wee lass and I are much obliged,” Jamie replied, striding right past her and using his heel to kick the door shut in her astonished face. The Devil Wears Plaid
  • A few dozen eggs of the bernicle geese were also found among the higher rocks which shut in the bay on the north. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
  • His throat gaped, his chest heaved, his eyes squeezed shut involuntarily, and then with a clamorous noise, he let loose a sneeze that put even the colossal thunder crashing in the sky above to shame.
  • Rebecca had somehow got shut in the cabin when she went down to get a coat.
  • He clamped his eyes shut in the hope of blotting out the scene. AMAGANSETT
  • Tonight the outside lane of the dual carriageway will shut in both directions between Rayleigh Weir and Kent Elms corner to fix a water main which burst two weeks ago.
  • American postage stamps honouring the occasion mark the envelopes of Christmas cards that I cannot send from La Guardia Airport because the slots on all mailboxes are welded shut in the airport.
  • Princess! they are simple, and such as beguile tentmen and tentwomen shut in by the desert, their fancies tender as children's. The Prince of India — Volume 01
  • Teachers said they had to keep windows shut in sweltering conditions as they feared some pupils may be allergic to stings. The Sun
  • For surely women could not voluntarily allow themselves to be shut in like this, like Nora, for example, become dependent and be dandled like children all their lives? Chitambo - 4
  • In the middle stood a small mound, looking as if it had been made artificially, with a kind of arbour on the top overgrown with some sort of creeper and shut in by trees. Chatterbox, 1905.
  • Each day feels like being shut in an airless room, each inch won like an airhole I've dug to draw my next breath. Partygirl Diary Entry
  • He sprinted towards her but as he got close she slammed the door shut in his face. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
  • Shut in with his cronies, he sees the world as his enemy and opposition to his will as personal affront.
  • Businesses that were shut in the afternoon have reopened, and it's looking like things are slowly getting back to normal.
  • Without ceremony, the woman slammed the door shut in my face.
  • After ever-increasing amounts of verbal diarrhoea from Kinnear culminated in his new contract codswallop, the best thing he can do now is keep his trap shut in public and get on the "trombone" to try and pull us out of the proverbial. Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • She saw Nathan with his eyes shut in deep concentration and knew something was troubling him, but chose not to bother him just yet.
  • The hedge clippers, meanwhile, were now cutting at the air, jarring her fingers as the handle opened and shut in her hand.
  • A window slammed shut in the wind.
  • Rebecca had somehow got shut in the cabin when she went down to get a coat.
  • The exudate, however, is, as it were, shut in by the dense fibrous layer of the membrane, and the result is that in periostitis it collects between the membrane and the bone, causing swelling and raising of the membrane, and giving rise to excruciating pain from pressure upon the nerves. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • Milo had his eyes screwed shut in pain, jaw clamped tight shut lest he cried out.
  • That way one can avoid the sick-making moment when the desire to protect starts to destroy: the smooth lawn that you're not allowed to play on; the window locked shut in case of burglars; the child prevented from learning from any adult who isn't government approved. Children don't require protection. They need to learn to trust intuition
  • He sprinted towards her but as he got close she slammed the door shut in his face. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
  • And it's never, ever as effective as keeping your bazoo shut in the first place. RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • The Bell, once the village pub, shut in 1988 and is now the The Bell House; alongside, only the name remains of what was the forge.
  • One seems shut inside a shell of sickness, a miasma of illness. ON CATS
  • He has been shut in closets, kitchen cabinets and, once, in our filing cabinet.
  • Every member of the family, from the youngest to the oldest, bears a hand, shut in the qualmy rooms, where meals are cooked and clothing washed and dried besides, the livelong day. X. Jewtown
  • A window slammed shut in the wind.
  • The whole seemingly uncompanionable half-dozen, stabled together, may pass the long wet hours when the door is shut in livelier communication than is held in the servants’ hall or at the Dedlock Arms.
  • The hands _tyned, tened_, closed, or shut in, signified _ten_; for there numeration _closed_. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
  • Teachers said they had to keep windows shut in sweltering conditions as they feared some pupils may be allergic to stings. The Sun
  • There are wharves of heavy masonry; the governor's residence, a verandaed bungalow shut in with green persiennes, standing on a little eminence some distance back from the water; and one narrow street of heavy white stone houses with flat roofs, fringing the shore. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
  • Cowboys and cold callers who prey on York and North Yorkshire's elderly and vulnerable could have the door shut in their face if a Parliamentary bill becomes law.
  • A window slammed shut in the wind.
  • The cat was shut in the garage all night.
  • The cat was shut in the garage all night.
  • And for your surprise, he is not shut in a birdcage.
  • She clapped the door shut in anger.
  • The door that had clanged shut in that instant came flying open with a storm behind it.
  • The saltworks, an hour south of Athens, shut in 1969. Ailing Greece Tries National Tag Sale
  • But equally, immersion can be stultifying: shut yourself off from a range of experiences (artistic and lived), and your critical reading even of the things you're shut in with suffer.

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