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isolate or separate
She was shut off from the friends -
block off the passage through
We shut off the valve -
stem the flow of
shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation
How To Use shut off In A Sentence
- The pilot shut off the motors and glided down to the landing field.
- Worse, the beam shut off while I was still four-metres from the ground.
- The pilot shut off the motors and glided down to the landing field.
- There was a scream, a shouted cry, from somewhere as the light was completely shut off.
- That would mean that a majority of senators could establish a new rule allowing debate to be shut off with only a simple majority, not the usual and nearly unobtainable sixty-four votes.
- Shut off the water to prevent pipes from freezing and if you have sprinklers drain them out.
- The gene that produces gamma zein is normally shut off in corn. Jeffrey Smith: Biotech Propaganda Cooks Dangers Out of GM Potatoes
- Yet when Denver extended its big men and rotated its guards to shut off the pick and roll, the Wolves merely swung the ball to a wide-open Latrell Sprewell on the wing, who buried seven treys en route to a 31-point performance.
- Argan, kharob, and lotus, with the help of a few of the "arar" or gum sandarac trees, shut off the view to the right and left. Morocco
- Until then it felt like we were shut off from the outside world. Times, Sunday Times