How To Use Shut up In A Sentence

They put out a plan that adds up, leaves no ox ungored and should shut up anyone who says the deficit can be contained by cutting waste, fraud, abuse and foreign aid. Two Tests of a Gridlock Mentality
When you shut up your eyes , I like a duck in a thunderstorm . I can but stop and wait beside you whisht .
Someone who can, in all deliberateness, actually give forth that depraved statement would do well, truly, to reconsider or shut up.
Myra wanted to tell it to SHUT UP as it cuckooed six times. MORE FROM GINNY BATES: PAINTERLAND
‘Shut up,’ he hissed glancing into the kitchen where mom was on the phone.

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We are not coming here to shut up shop. The Sun
We won't shut up shop and try to nick something. The Sun
Now when I was shut up in my room with the mumps was the time to begin The French Revolution. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
The shop has been shut up temporarily.
Princess found herself shut up in the palkee, and being carried she knew not where, she thought how terrible it would be for her sister to return home and find her gone, and determined, if possible, to leave some sign to show her which way she had been taken. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
I wish you'd shut up for a moment and listen to what the rest of us have to say.
Frequent image posting is a very rare phenomenon here (that is, if someone said "posts lots of images", I'd have thought, until now, "breezeway", whereas when you say "telling people to shut up", I think ... oh, so many people. How Now Brownpau
You have no idea how I'm feeling so shut up.
His remarks about her weight provoked her into telling him to shut up.
Any seamster or cobbler or tailor or artificer of any trade keeps us shut up in prison for the luxurious and wanton pleasures of the clergy. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
But, as with pure naturalistic theories of evolution, your task is to shut up and bow to your superiors, not ask obvious questions.
They were shut up safely in the "barracoon," -- such was the name of the large building -- and to-morrow, that day, or whenever the captain was ready, he would deliver them over. Ran Away to Sea
A team of troubleshooters has been called into a York estate where nuisance youths have forced the community centre to shut up shop at night.
In the undiplomatic language of my old neighborhood, put up or shut up.
Shut up then or, if you must, go and tend wild nature in odd obscure little corners called nature reserves. Times, Sunday Times
People being shushed often give the shusher a dirty look, but as long as they shut up, you win! Ask Amy
She is one of those peppy, optimistic, chatterbox types that you can't get to shut up.
When asked if he would get mad at Seteven's recent saying or counsel him to shut up, Deric made no response to the reporters' questions.
'I'll give you a choice: drink, or shut up—let be—napoo. Which will you have?'
You can ask them to shut up, of course, but they will only look incredulous and then carry right on with renewed vigour. Times, Sunday Times
Now I saw the canvas awnings pulled down over the armourer's workshop, the storehouses shut up to keep the goods from damp, the great oak doors of the stable closed.
I've had a terrible cold and been shut up in my room for a week.
Then, I heard her suddenly shut up and her voice crack.
It was join in, or sit on a chair and shut up, whilst the rest of the world played football or went to the Saturday matinee at the local cinema.
Whenever you hear some old codger bitching about how there's no one making good music anymore, tell him to shut up, put away his Woodstock records, and play this week's new releases. Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: This Week's New Music
That is, close up, shut up, or, as is said now, "bung up," -- emphatically, "We kept true time;" and the probability is, that in saying this, Sir Toby would accompany the words with the action of pushing an imaginary door; or _sneck up_. Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
Will you shut up about ghosts! You always scare me with that spooky talk!
You can tell a loud yawner to shut up, and she will yawn with more tonal precaution, turning her yawn into a softer, more weightless expulsion of breath.
Shut up or I'll dot you one!
Hotel and apartment owners were said to fear they would have to shut up shop if credit facilities were withdrawn. The Sun
A heavily moustached man, upon noticing us, shushes his compadres: ‘Shut up, there are people here!’
That snot-faced little girl you call 'dewdrop' caught on that it wasn't you in the robe and wouldn't shut up about it. Enchantment
amd fan boi: do something useful for once if that is all possible, given your penchant for dead-end technologies, shore up the blogs firewall and the one on fsj's IP also. and for f**k's sake shut up about 'caledonia,' or i'll have 'trey' back here insinuating 'c**kf*g' at you for your effeminate use of 'boi'! Sumner Redstone keeps firing people
"Shut up," she muttered before taking a quick chug of the soda.
Well, aw'll mak a mullock o 'thee i' two minnits if tha doesn't shut up! Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect
And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days: Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
She's too polite to tell him to shut up and go away, so we put up with him.
Shut up about your stupid dog, okay!
Too many occasions ruined by intrusive waiters demanding that you shut up and listen to them describe what you are about to eat before you eat it, too many orchestrated removals of silver covers - abracadabra, hocus pocus!
I wish she would shut up!
Shut up, buddy: alcohol makes everything better, even pop punk.
When my Mexican wife protested, the stroppiest, fattest guard said (in effect) that I could take 90 days and shut up or take nothing at all and leave - he was tired of damn gringos and didn't care much for them. Can Americans be actively involved in politics in Mexico?
Here she was shut up in her bedroom, which was stuffy from the afternoon sun that had been pouring into it, instead of out in the cool garden, and all because of Mr. Briggs. The Enchanted April
Then he yelled back and told me to shut up. Times, Sunday Times
Neither of us told the other to shut up and get on with emptying the dishwasher. Times, Sunday Times
The despotic monarchs of Spain forbid the exploring of any new gold or silver mines without the express permission of government, and they have ordered several rich ones to be shut up as not equal to the cost of working. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
‘Will you shut up, you great twit?’
He asked for licence registration and insurance card which I provided, took off my sunglasses, ointed me in the sun and asked me to take a field sobroiety test, when my wife said I had just come from the hospital he told her to shut up or he would arrest her. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Well, he was at the top afore you could cry 'trapstick,' and it wasn't long till I was at the top too, and there we found a gate opening into the hill, and a power of lords and ladies waiting to resave Mahoon, who I larned was their king, and who had been away from his kingdom for twenty years, by rason of his being shut up in the box by some great fairy-man. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841
It's time to shut up shop and go home.
Oh, shut up! I don't want to hear your excuses.
To appearing " old ox chokes with resentment greatly " person, avoid by all means covers shut up bazoo, inflectional limb, lest choke.
She lived, meanwhile, wholly shut up from all company, consigned to penitence for her indiscretions, to grief for the fate of her sister, and to wasting regret of her own causelessly lost felicity. Camilla
To his unspeakable thankfulness the young man gathered from the chance remarks of one of the speakers that Dick, alive and uninjured, had been brought by Horoeka into the _kainga_ at nightfall, and was now shut up in one of the _wharés_. Adventures in Many Lands
We hired you because we have grunt work we need done, now shut up. Times, Sunday Times
Then his language deteriorated into 'shits' and 'arseholes' (lots of those) and he started interrupting everyone, so much so that the woman sitting next to me shouted 'Oh shut up' and we all shouted back 'Go for it girl'. West End Whingers
We are, then, shut up, apparently, to the conclusion that Milton intends to treat what we know as abstractions, the virtues and the vices of our moral constitution, as actual, independent beings in the invisible world. Milton's Angels
I have already animadverted on the bad habits which females acquire when they are shut up together; and, I think, that the observation may fairly be extended to the other sex, till the natural inference is drawn which I have had in view throughout — that to improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The whole residence was blanketed in a dusty atmosphere that made me sneeze often when the windows were shut up tightly as they were on this particular day.
Then he yelled back and told me to shut up. Times, Sunday Times
The only person I know good at f'ing and sucking is your mom, and I do not think Kifowit is your mother - so shut up. Aurora Alderman Says Taxdollars Are Not Taxdollars to Save Junk House
Vic suggested that if I got on the radio they'd have great difficulty ever getting me to shut up.
We, the Zapatistas, will not shut up and we will mobilize in support of out brotherly town and companion of Oaxaca.
We are not coming here to shut up shop. The Sun
If so, maybe it will shut up him for a month or two; he has been bloviating about his 3.2 million-year-old specimen nonstop since 1974.
When the crowd barracked him and he told them to shut up, the umpire, Bruno Rebeuh, issued a code violation, which really got Tarango going.
We are not coming here to shut up shop. The Sun
Either the Kiwis wipe the floor with us and the commentators gloat ‘told-you’, or we'll win and hopefully shut up the whining, carping know-alls - for a week at least
Trump said in a statement that he was surprised to hear Cosby blabber, somewhat incoherently, 'you run or shut up.' Trump will 'probably' run as independent for White House
Its funny cause we are such a comically group, like you have Taylor ... who is just Taylor, Pat who is not very used to all this gurly stuff and really grown up, Michelle who wont shut up .... Jenna-bear Diary Entry
Shut up, uta," advised one of the masked Red Angels. Kahen no Ame
Either put up or shut up, there's more than enough real news out there that's more worthy of our attention.
‘Shut up,’ he growled, staring vindictively at his breakfast.
As usual, we'll probably be cut off from electronic civilization while we're there, and I'm just not enough of an addict (shut up, allaya) to do a phone post. Off to Necon
I wish our friend at the next table would shut up.
The whole thing is really propelled by your powers of observation and by your ability to shut up and get out of the way.
We are shut up together, tete-a-tete, which is so much the better or so much the worse. Original Short Stories — Volume 02
You just sit there and shut up - I don't want to hear any more of your sass.
It's time to shut up shop and go home.
Now shut up and get some sleep, Major, or I'm going to have to cold-cock you and drag you to your bunk.
We won't shut up shop and try to nick something. The Sun
CHOI: Well, when I hear the word incrementalism, I think I hear the word shut up and, you know ... CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2009
For the love of God, Sigmund, shut up!" expostulated one of the men. WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
And this flimflammery is all because Republican leaders understand that after their two years blocking the Will of the People, after John Boehner saying "We will not compromise our principles," after trying to convince people that the Republican Party is now in charge -- they know that they now have to put up or shut up. Robert J. Elisberg: Where There's a Will, There's Away
His remarks about her weight provoked her into telling him to shut up.
I wish you'd shut up for a moment and listen to what the rest of us have to say.
Shut Up and go back to Alaska but my guess is after you bailed on them they don't want you back either. Palin blasts the 'Obama doctrine'
You have no idea how I'm feeling so shut up.
We shouldn't even have to ignore him ... he should simply shut up and go play cribbage with grandma. elaine bergstrom McCain challenges Obama
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. Phyllis Diller
Sometimes we argue overmuch when what we should do is shut up.
On verse 20: Nope -- "shut up" means two things in modern English, but the Greek κατακλείω only has the sense of 'incarcerate'. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
I glared at the woman, who shut up pretty quickly, then placed my hands on either side of the small circle, muttering the words of a spell.
I blogged about it here, suggesting that this group, unrepresentative of the beard and sandals membership, is seeking to seize control of the party infrastructure, putting the membership is a position of 'shut up, or ship out'. Disgruntled Lib Dem Front Benchers XI
But, he was a very religious man so everyone had to shut up and let him have a job he was abjectly unqualified for because to do otherwise would be theocratically incorrect.
Vic suggested that if I got on the radio they'd have great difficulty ever getting me to shut up.
Shut up or I'll bash your brains in!
OK, wise guy, shut up and listen!
Meanwhile the master of the house presents himself with a disturbed and gloomy countenance, and doubts much whether we can have any dinner to-day, because no one will sell anything, either for copper or silver; moreover hints darkly that they expect a _copper pronuniciamiento_ to-morrow; and observes that the shops are shut up. Life in Mexico
But they've shut up the madhouse and nobody knows if they're coming or going.
When these people call Clinton (or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or Sen. Dianne Feinstein or former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro) a bitch, or even the cutesier "rhymes-with-witch," it's an expression of pure sexism -- a hope that they can shut up not only one woman but every woman who dares to be assertive. Bitch on 'bitch'
Q George, on the peace process invitations, is the fact that they're going out an indication that the U.S. believes the issue of the deportees is a closed one now and that it's time for the Arab countries to either put up or shut up? Pm Press Briefing By George Stephanopoulos
He's singing falsetto again, tell him to shut up. Times, Sunday Times
‘Shut up,’ he said in a tone coming dangerously close to a whine.
They are called marah; and when the nights are cold the flocks are shut up in them, but in ordinary weather they are merely kept within the yard. The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John
OK, wise guy, shut up and listen!
Shut up or I'll dot you one!
You can ask them to shut up, of course, but they will only look incredulous and then carry right on with renewed vigour. Times, Sunday Times
Often I'd look at some other members and think you're not shy, you're not backward in the same way I am, some of you hardly ever shut up.
I'll give him a smack in the chops if he doesn't shut up.
The discussion over at The One Ring, then, seems to be less about the idea of philology, but more about the potential suggestion that those without training in philology should sit down, shut up, and listen to the Annointed Priests of Philology and Literature. Archive 2005-11-01
There is much to be said for aging roofs, the quaint old things - atop rickety, silvering cabins; covering mossy manses - so much to be said in fact that I'll shut up about it right now, except to say that I have an old roof.
I'll give him a smack in the chops if he doesn't shut up.
However, the most important person in any such crime like in all crimes, of course is the victim, and if the victim says: "shut up about it because *you continuing to bring it up* upsets me, it was a long time ago and I don't want to have it splashed on the front pages now", that's exactly what should be done. Artistic Licence
Just shut up and get on with your work!
The kitchens were shut up and mothballed, and consigned to dusty history as a storage shed for garden equipment. Times, Sunday Times
‘Shut up, shorty,’ another boy said, stepping up.
She can't spend her whole life shut up in her office.
He told the frontbencher to shut up (in Parliamentary language), adding: ‘There are others who wish to ask questions.’
The nonintellectual Left has only one certainty: the rest of us should shut up, or go to jail. Pilgrim's Egress II
The lippy critic was given a ‘put up or shut up ultimatum’ by four fans who appeared on BBC 1's Football Focus earlier in the season.
On a small island of the southern Atlantic, is shut up a remarkable prisoner, wearing himself out there in a feeble mixture of peevishness and jealousy, solaced by no great thoughts and no heroic spirit; a kind of dotard before the time, killing and consuming himself by the intense littleness into which he has shrunk. Sermons for the New Life.
Shut up or I'll crown you.
William barks for them to shut up as he bites into a lamb shank.
Somehow or other, Chavez had managed to "shut up" and NOT mention the up-coming deal even when he met and shared levities with Spain's King Juan Carlos. President Hugo Chavez Frias plows a runaway freight train into the buffers of anti-Venezuelan media euphoria!
She seemed a little relieved, I thought, but when _I_ asked questions she shut up like a quahaug. Fair Harbor
OK, wise guy, shut up and listen!
Hey, shut up down there! We're trying to sleep.
Awesome interview Dave, loved the part where Sam got told to shut up. jiayu awesome interview. really learnt a lot about bayer and how he got into the business and his process. love this. thanks a lot david chen wonka bar Interview: Samuel Bayer, Director of A Nightmare on Elm Street | /Film
She darted an angry look at me and I shut up.
He said that somebody should get the orchestra to shut up, and that everybody should be on deck, manning the lifeboats.
The cottage had a musty smell after being shut up over the winter.
They made love until the tenants of the flatette next door banged on the wall and told them to shut up.
Then he yelled back and told me to shut up. Times, Sunday Times
Roughly 44 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds say they're very likely to tell talkers in movies to shut up.
And she neither saw his signals nor heard them, though he arranged both the stove and the table to warn her that something had happened, and coughed croupily till Barber told him roughly to shut up. The Rich Little Poor Boy
Look, just shut up for a minute!
Never miss a good chance to shut up. Will Rogers
If you naysayers would just sit down, and shut up the bad mouthing, and back stubbing for a min. everything would just keep falling into place as the President has it planned. CNN Poll: Is Obama taking too long on Afghanistan decision?
One solution would be to shut up and keep a low profile.
12 A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.
The summer house was shut up for another year and we went back to the city.
As soon as they'd finished singing every word of 'Morning Train', I thought the little toerags would shut up.
I went to a gynecologist, an internist, an endocrinologist, a cardiologist, bariatrics, I went to everything I was supposed to and for the first time in my life I shut up and I listened and I had them tell me what I was supposed to do. CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006
And while Epstein may attempt to take a kindler, gentler tone, the results of his comments on the Century City subway alignment nonetheless can be reduced to a paternalistic: "We 'respect' you, but we know better ... so shut up. John Mirisch: Constellation Blvd. Is the Wrong Choice for the Westside Extension Century City Station
I've heard guys saying "shut up before I call your parole officer". Michael Strahan: 'I like hitting quarterbacks, I miss that'
A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.
The kitchens were shut up and mothballed, and consigned to dusty history as a storage shed for garden equipment. Times, Sunday Times
Like most bores, he is a very nice chap, so no-one says ‘Oh, for God's sake shut up, you miserable wretch!’
But when the hands come up, that means shut up with mindless jive.
Shut up, Mulligan!" was Bert Rhine's command, in receipt of which he received a venomous stare from the cripple. CHAPTER XLII
It seemed satisfied, at least for the moment, so I coiled the hose, shut up the garage, and went back indoors.
Someone who can, in all deliberateness, actually give forth that depraved statement would do well, truly, to reconsider or shut up.
Will this bloviated fool ever shut up? gary tessler Obama calls for civil debate, takes shots at critics
She gave me a gentle nudge in the ribs to tell me to shut up.
We hired you because we have grunt work we need done, now shut up. Times, Sunday Times
You just sit there and shut up - I don't want to hear any more of your sass.
For pity's sake just shut up and let me drive!
She prosecuted her trade too with every attention to its diminished income; shut up the windows of one half of her house, to baffle the tax-gatherer; retrenched her furniture; discharged her pair of post-horses, and pensioned off the old humpbacked postilion who drove them, retaining his services, however, as an assistant to a still more aged hostler. Saint Ronan's Well
I do not complain when the Montreal crowds start the chants but when it's Toronto I feel that they should really just sit down and shut up.
Molly could see Mr Kirkham's patience was running out, so she shut up.
A few days after Raintree took it over, he was lookin 'round the garden, which old Sobriente had always kept shut up agin strangers, and he finds a lot of dried-up' slumgullion'* scattered all about the borders and beds, just as if the old man had been using it for fertilizing. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
-- Ed. [10] "So nunnish," a singular mode of expression, alluding to the nuns being separated from the world, and shut up by themselves. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
I wish that motormouth would shut up
Shut up, the lot of you!
A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.
Here I've been shut up in this confounded house for four mortal days!
If you don't shut up, I'll belt you .
Just shut up and let me talk for a minute.
Some people just don't know when to shut up.
The grass roots movement is too strong to ever lose to a "know nothing" bimbo like Palin shut up!! Palin to make announcement Friday
“Shut up, you overgrown lummox,” snapped the gribble. Stone and Anvil
A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.
Adams is no different to the DUP members who blithered on for years about the pro-agreement media consensus, until the DUP joined that consensus and will now presumably shut up, while Adams continues complaining about an anti-agreement media consensus. Slugger O'Toole
Shut up your mouth that smeller than ass, Get out my control!
I love his passion but it sometimes overtakes his ability to remain comprehensible and coherent, and if someone like me, who enjoys him, was thinking "Ok Dan, time to shut up now," as he rabbited on and on and on at the start of the Avatar section ... /Filmcast Ep. 81 - Avatar (GUEST: Dan Trachtenberg from the Totally Rad Show) | /Film
I wish you'd shut up for a moment and listen to what the rest of us have to say.
I look up to you for fighting for good principles of democraty, so other people will not be shut up and impeached of expressing themselves in the future. Two months’ notice
The in-laws phoned my husband for months at times when they knew I probably would not be home, and harassed him endlessly with their feudal views of how he should shut up his rebellious wife.
Godscroft, "we will not omit here, (to shut up all,) the judgment of those times concerning him, in a rude verse indeed, yet such as beareth witness of his true magnanimity and invincible mind in either fortune: -- Waverley Novels — Volume 12
Forum groupthink is insanely established to the point you generally go to forums that agree with you, or you learn to fit in fast or shut up about anything that the regulars have deemed to be wrong. Going Out
It might be better if he just shut up a bit. Times, Sunday Times
When they'd finally shut up, I started again.
Enough to say the poultry is all to evacuate the premises at Christmas, and meanwhile the cock is shut up in a dark cellar from darkening till after our breakfast. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
He hath consecrated for us a new and living way (the old being quite shut up), “through the vail, that is to say, his flesh,” Heb.x. 20; and “through him we have access by one Spirit unto the Father,” Eph. ii. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Well, the Vatican should shut up; it's quick enough to condemn Jews for defensive action but I seem to recall was utterly silent during one of the worst genocides of the Twentieth Century (and is now actively trying to 'canonise' the one responsible for that so that he could achieve greater Vatican control of its German churches) hadrian On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
I think the harp is totally awesome, and Harpo was my favorite Marx brother by far, and Christmas is about the only time of year I'll let my guard down to admit any of this in public, and by the way shut up. Boing Boing
The cottage had a musty smell after being shut up over the winter.
I’ll just shut up about it now. on December 3, 2008 at 1:32 pm | Reply gerry rosser Ten Things Tuesday – Singing!!! « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
-- That this expresses a positive divine act, by which those who wilfully close their eyes and harden their hearts against the truth are judicially shut up in their unbelief and impenitence, is admitted by all candid critics [as Olshausen], though many of them think it necessary to contend that this is in no way inconsistent with the liberty of the human will, which of course it is not. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Close your eyes and picture this: Pictures of Chelsea Clinton on the campaign trail with the following words plastered across the screen with "pimped", "shut up", "why didn't your mom leave your dad"? Primaries over, Democrats promote unity
And LA Weekly opined that ‘Lopez and Affleck try not to smile at each other while gassing on and on until you're praying, dear God, please make them shut up and do it so we can all go home in peace’.
In fact, you would think that when more people came out to accuse you of scamming them after the plea bargain was set would make you shut up and take the punishment before things got worse.
My mum was shouting at me to shut up, saying all the neighbours could hear me. Times, Sunday Times

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