How To Use Shutter In A Sentence

He reached up with a hooked pole to roll down the metal shutter.
Finally met Judith "with the blue shutters": the American to whom the villagers have been trying to introduce me, going as far as to give me directions to her house "avec les volets bleus". Péquenaud - French Word-A-Day
The camera has a 32mm glass lens, and its automatic shutter allows you to take photos in near-darkness without a flash.
Both ads use the same stock video of Cofield walking forlornly alongside her shuttered brake-pad production facility. Strickland goes negative in first campaign ad
Opening the shutters to the world may also have exacted a price. Times, Sunday Times

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The viewfinder has information regarding the shutter speed, focus, exposure compensation and flash mark.
‘Then make two lefts and I'm the ranch house with the blue shutters,’ he explained.
He took pictures by pressing the shutter release with his stronger left thumb. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Nowadays tunnels are mainly lined with concrete segments or with concrete pumped in between the excavated ground and internal shuttering.
With stage shutters open to reveal a large drawing-room extending upstage, the partygoers are grouped around different card tables and involved in their card games.
When you're shooting sports action or wildlife - or simply trying to keep up with fast-moving children - the 10 frames-per-second high speed with mechanical shutter continuous shooting* and new tracking auto focus feature will ensure you never miss that vital moment. Digital Photography Now
Most news organizations are in retreat, shuttering bureaus and laying off journalists. But the former "Red China News Agency" doesn't need to worry about the inconvenience of turning a profit.
Each window sprouted a flag and blue metal mesh shutter. The Tribes Triumphant
There was the bullfighter, he was easy to recognize, and the bespectacled guy with half dozen cameras hanging from his neck was obviously the shutterbug.
The shutters were closed and the drapes were drawn too, so the room, which smelled strongly of something like camphorated oil, was lit only by a lamp at the side of the bed. The Count's Blackmail Bargain
We stayed there in an old farmhouse with thick stone walls and shutters, and silk worms in the attic. Times, Sunday Times
The "gharry" makes an excellent perambulating studio -- it is a small, high, wooden cab, with little lattice shutters instead of glass which pull up all round so that you can let down those you need for view, aft or forward, or at either side, and pull up the others and thus have privacy and light and air, and you need no stove or hot pipes, for you could roast a partridge inside! From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
The shop-front is fitted with rolling shutters.
The room is done up in the old colonial style, complete with red stained wooden floors, four poster bed, wooden shutters for windows and so on.
The lab could be equipped with a shutter w made of non - cotton and non - synthetic fibre materials.
The work to which the judge said he would return concerned the removal of a roller shutter and the runners to either side of it at the front of the shop.
The slam of the shutter awoke me.
Immediately after the first sea swept over our stern, I ordered the Boatswain to take sufficient men and shutters to close all windows in the after cabin.
He threw open the shutters to cool the room.
There were wooden shutters on the windows. Times, Sunday Times
The kinetoscope with its two-dimensional strip and its shutter does the same thing more steadily, and presents the illusion of motion in a two-dimensional area even better than the little hand mutoscope. The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained
Although Bell and Abron were charged under state and federal statutes, the city was unable to shutter Diamonds Cabaret or even suspend its business license, though they also found a 17-year-old stripper working at the club in January. Lost Girl
Most shops remained shuttered and many people stayed inside their homes. Times, Sunday Times
An avid shutterbug, Paul has been able to expand his interest in photography as a leader on Sierra Club trips.
Aislinn woke as the first gray hues of dawn were seeking their way through the shutters and lighting the room. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Also use window shutters and invest in thick curtains that will help to retain heat. Times, Sunday Times
The eight rooms come with wooden floors, shuttered windows and panelled doors. Times, Sunday Times
These valuations have opened an abyss between person and person over which an Achilles of free thought could not leap, shutter how he may.
That is pretty good, considering that most shots I take with other compact digicams get blurry at two times that shutter speed.
Her quarries are the names behind the faces in 50,000 antique negatives left in the town's shuttered Casasola photography studio. In Old El Paso, This Detective Story
When the shutter of your camera opens for that fraction of a second, photons of light stream in and strike the silver halide grains suspended in the gelatin emulsion.
Billy is a teenage shutterbug who always seems to cram his camera in the most inopportune places.
Metal shutters cover the windows and the bungalow's garden is overgrown. Times, Sunday Times
Given the use of identical yarns, cloths of identical quality may be produced by power-operated shuttle looms and shutterless looms with the following exceptions: Chapter 6
Fences, wooden shutters and doors are painted in striking colours to contrast with the indigenous cream-coloured limestone of buildings.
I heard shutters banging and people wailing and babies crying and dog barking.
As the video card displays one image, the opposing eye is blocked by the shutter.
Some of the footing was shot with a digital minicam placed on top of Natchwey's camera and allowing the audience to see exactly what the photographer saw as well as the exact moment when his index pressed the shutter-release.
Ariel and Kevin joined Fairchild and Ramsay for a Bon Appétit photo shoot at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., where their winning dishes were photographed for a spread in the magazine. 'Hell's Kitchen' recap: Yes we can? No, they can't. | EW.com
They wanted to do the whole, "let's jump and taken a picture mid air!" thing and it resulted in my just holding down the shutter button as everyone kind of goofed off ... it's a bit more fun than just shooting video (which my camera doesn't do). Thing-a-day 2010
To the right, both of the interconnecting reception rooms have original fireplaces, plasterwork and window shutters.
Secondly, the planners have allowed the opening of a shop within yards of the disputed shutters that does not conform with disability rights legislation.
Tight, sometimes tiny, stepped lanes weave between old stone houses with painted wooden doors and shuttered windows.
The decision cost the corporation more than $100 million in nonrecurring costs and charges when it shuttered the facilities and laid off 600 warehouse employees.
To the left the drawing room is a bright area with two shuttered sash windows overlooking the front garden and a fine marble fireplace.
fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters
Use compressed air or blower brush all over (but not compressed air on shutter curtain). Photographers Handbook
If your camera has manual controls, you can add more light to your shots by opening the aperture more widely (using a smaller f-number) and slowing the shutter speed (to, say, 1/125 or even 1/60 of a second). Tips: 5 digital camera mistakes to avoid
He racked his camera and pressed down the shutter release.
Moonlight poured through the unshuttered windows, and the damp summer breeze ruffled his hair. A TIME OF WAR
By the time she faced the release of camera shutters, the smartly dressed, striking young woman was completely composed. Times, Sunday Times
Some shops are shuttered but people are getting on with life. The Sun
The rule of thumb is never to hand-hold the camera at a shutter speed lower than your lens' focal length.
Copper-top bays, corner quoins, paned windows, shutters and arches with decorative keystones above windows and doors are all features common in French-style homes.
Extra perks include fast shutter advance and a lens that accepts 49 mm SLR screw-on accessories.
Best, in that case, to keep the shutters down. Times, Sunday Times
Or, if you MUST pursue your calling as cracksmen, have the goodness to try some other shutters. Roundabout Papers
There were hinged shutters to fasten against the occasional dust storm.
I don't think Friday's incident was a serious attempt to break into the shop as they had just used a crowbar to jemmy the shutters apart.
He also discovered original pine boxed sash shutters in the window bays.
Mexico was shot using extreme overexposure and printing down, adjusting the shutter angle to 45 degrees to give it a very strobey look.
All the shops fast asleep, with their eyelids closed, that is, their shutters up, all except one establishment, garishly lighted and of defiantly rakish, appearance, with the words Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891
Closed shutters and quiet streets help nobody. The Sun
He unshuttered the window, and gazed through, the crisp autumn wind bit at his face as the past bit at his heart and again he pulled himself away from it.
A large shuttered sash window overlooking the communal square makes this an exceptionally bright area.
The shuttered house was a ruin. Times, Sunday Times
There was no light but the moon shining in through the shutterless window, and no talk that I heard," said Childe Charity; and she thought they must have been dreaming. Granny's Wonderful Chair
A white clapboarded house with moss-green shutters and a dark oak Rainbow Hill
There were few chimneys, except in the larger houses, and no shop windows; a large wooden shutter fixed below the window covered it at night, and in the day it was let down to hang, tablewise, as a counter whereon the goods sold by the owner were displayed. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
New York was once home to a handful of roller-skating rinks, but most have shuttered in recent years. High Line on a Roll
Fast films allow higher shutter speeds and smaller apertures, which help correct both problems.
Hanging over the steep corner of River and Pulaski, it was a tiny, white, shuttered and awninged Cape that gave up to Lyszko & Son Vegetables and Fruits what most people would have used as their front room. Hoopi Shoopi Donna
Secondary air tuyere: aluminum alloy shutter, the surface was electro - sprayed by epoxy resin.
The rain lashed down on the shuttered windows of pubs and restaurants on Penzance seafront last week. Times, Sunday Times
Charlton lowered the steel shutters over the store windows, secured the back door, and locked the cash register.
Original internal features include the kilns, low ceiling heights between floors, steeping tanks and shutter mechanisms for window openings.
And it is certain that to be off upon a journey with a rucksack strapped upon you at an hour when the butcher boy takes down his shutters is a high pleasure. Chimney-Pot Papers
All windows are open to air the rooms and with only shutters to keep out little intruders the level of noise is unbearable.
The hut has a steel frame and shutters that open outwards and upwards to provide shade. Times, Sunday Times
Having used the tripod as a climbing frame the inquisitive animals soon discovered how to fire the shutter. Times, Sunday Times
At the time they say they were told that although the windows were shuttered, there were four ceiling fans.
The timberwork was sharp, the shutters were painted, the paths were neat and swept. Two For The Lions
The city centre was deserted after dark, but by early morning, residents were scurrying to buy fresh food and return to their shuttered houses. Times, Sunday Times
If you have a room at the front of the hotel you open the shutters to the full glory of the frothy blue ocean bashing against the rocks below.
The key features of the camera are highlighted: a bloomed lens and a high speed focal plane shutter in an easy to use and inexpensive camera.
Furry bodies eclipsed the fans of light spilling through the shutters, turning the scene surreal.
A user-controlled shutter system determined which laser was directed at the coupler.
This small, neatly shuttered mews house looked uninhabited. Times, Sunday Times
So, having fastened her window, she forbore to close the shutters, and, propped against the pillows, she lay looking out through the window's casement, entranced by the view, the peace and beauty of that rural summer night.
Restaurants, hotels and even bars closed their doors and shuttered their windows.
The kaleidoscopic range of subjects - child labour, women empowerment, literacy, environment - showcase a variety of themes the shutterbugs are called on to cover.
His finger was poised on the camera's shutter release.
Colonial hinged shutters are durable enough to withstand hurricane wind forces.
The timber casement windows are new, but much of the interior wood is original including the window shutters and some panelled doors.
A picture window with original shutters overlooks the street.
The floor was of dirt and the two windows had shutters, but no glass panes. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Dark floors and plantation shutters are juxtaposed with splashes of vivid yellow. Times, Sunday Times
We have hurricane glass now, so my major per-hurricane activity of putting up metal shutters is a thing of the past. Discourse.net: Fay
The building envelope is usually formed from balconies and loggias, creating a semi-public layer enclosed by an external skin of folding or sliding shutters.
The souvenir shops, with their olive wood crucifixes and mother of pearl nativity tableaux, are shuttered.
The camera shutters go off and it sounds like a thousand butterflies taking off. Times, Sunday Times
Also part of the package is a grid that helps you level a photo and an antishake feature that waits until the phone is steady to release the shutter. NYT > Home Page
In January 2001 three-quarters of their pavilion was burnt down, costing an estimated £200,000 to repair, and the metal shutters were graffitied just last week.
There, most of the families we knew lived in houses like the one on Rowland Road: gracious, sprawling, one-or-two-storeyed bungalows in red or white or cream brick, the louvred window shutters painted in green or blue. Archive 2006-04-01
The windows of the lower floors were dark and shuttered, but light poured through the mitred arches of the third-story windows, like a line of flame burning along the ridge of a distant mountain range. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
the shutters clattered against the house
Even before you realize the full gravity of the situation, traffic comes to a standstill and shops start pulling down shutters.
The main building is colonial in feel, with whitewashed walls, green shutters and turrets at all four corners. Times, Sunday Times
During the shutter's brief click, silver-halide crystals on the unexposed film record the varying levels of light in the scene being photographed.
They form the base of a gigantic pyramid of treason, stretching from the little gray house with green shutters to the towers of the Kremlin. Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America
French authorities forced strike-shuttered fuel depots to reopen to ensure gasoline supplies, and the interior minister threatened Wednesday to send in paramilitary police to stop rioting on the fringes of protests against raising the retirement age to 62. French Fuel Depots Forced Open Amid Strikes
But most of the shutters on the numerous holiday apartments dotted around the village remain firmly closed. The Sun
Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick room or a bedroom there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited, though the air had never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air, of air i.e. unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
The team had shuttered its Latin American academies to save money. How The Phillies Stay On Top
Having lived on the Upper East Side, deejayed in preppie clubs (such as the long-shuttered Surf Club) and gone to the area waterholes, I have an informed knowledge of these spoil brats. Brad Balfour: Exclusive: Actor Billy Magnussen Gives Hell to Preppies in Twelve
The company had opened a new store at Monroe Street and Detroit Avenue in 1997, about a mile from the two shuttered stores. Case Study: Toledo Rite Aid Proposal, December 1998 « Beachwood Historical Alliance
It retains its original wooden floor and period fireplace, and overlooks St Alban's Road through shuttered windows.
The flash trigger is wired to the shutter mechanism.
The E-PL1 lacks the 'scroller' that controlled the aperture/shutter settings on the E-P cameras, and the buttons on the back also felt harder to use at first impression. Www.hardwarezone.com Reviews
Metal shutters cover the windows and the bungalow's garden is overgrown. Times, Sunday Times
By the time she faced the release of camera shutters, the smartly dressed, striking young woman was completely composed. Times, Sunday Times
Slow shutter speed, high contrast and serendipitous symmetry made the risk well worth it.
the detached shutter fell on him
The stores finally pulled down the shutters at the weekend. Times, Sunday Times
Panasonic's iA (Intelligent Auto) mode is further advanced in the FX700 with the addition of Motion Deblur mode* by updating the motion detection (Intelligent ISO Control) and brightness control (Intelligent Exposure) to gain the highest shutter speed possible. Gizmodo
When, as had become usual, Dutiful did not arrive, I opened the shutters wide to the chill and dark of the winter morn. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Shops stayed shuttered and crowds stood uneasily on street corners as they waited for news. Times, Sunday Times
It is left to cure for a set number of days, after which they pull the shutters off and seal it. Times, Sunday Times
Now she rose from her chair and went to one of the windows, and, pushing back the sash curtain, pulled the wooden shutter across and hasped it. In Dark New England Days
The shutters were closed to shut out the daylight.
Her eyes flicked to a shutter that moved under the wind's force.
Lobo started shuffling uphill, on crooked empty streets past blind-shuttered windows.
green-shuttered cottages
The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture – Sainte-Catherine, after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochere of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic dream of Les Miserables
Half the famous duty-free shops are permanently shuttered. Times, Sunday Times
He should secure the shutter, he knows, but it comforts him to have some sound of activity issuing from the house. Excerpt: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
They can come and go faster than the speed of your shutter button. The Sun
Tom was peeping through a shutter at Lady Godiva.
There was no hint of light behind the shutters in any of the houses as he went cautiously along the wall. The Catalans
In many parts of Damascus shops were shuttered and people locked themselves in their homes. Times, Sunday Times
No nation can flee its stereotypes - think of Japanese shutterbugs, Germans in socks and sandals, and solipsistic Americans searching for someplace exotic with all the conveniences of home.
Streets with ornate buildings, balconies & shutters, sometimes painted seaside town colours, sometimes cracked and falling down netting on the outside to catch debris, wrought ironwork.
The exterior is whitewashed with blue shutters and little balconies. Times, Sunday Times
What a pity it is that we ain't in a climate where one can fasten the windows, and boult the shutters! With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire
The upper lens is enclosed on three sides by collapsible shutters, shielding the upper lens from reflections and ensuring proper focus.
One took out an aerosol can and began spray painting green paint over the bottom of the shutters of the shop opposite.
But then his wife's angry voice could be heard berating and hurrying him, and he slammed his shutters.
And not usually that, Jims the bit of the Division II shutterbug. Uni Watch Devaluing the Design Process, Pt. I (aka Design-A-Uni)
Inside, decorative features include Victorian tiling, a natural stone staircase, marble fireplaces and sash windows with working shutters.
The self - timer mode is not applicable when the shutter speed is set to " bulb
“Thank you,” she said as she walked over to the photographer's umbrella, her arms akimbo to keep her pits in picture-perfect shape until the shutterbug was ready. A Day in the Life of a Supermodel Armpit Makeup Artist
Can you fold the shutters back?
What is considered a good price by the square foot for the faux wood shutters?
Aislinn woke as the first gray hues of dawn were seeking their way through the shutters and lighting the room. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
He said the thieves had smashed the windows and shutters, and damaged pictures on walls inside the unit.
The main building is colonial in feel, with whitewashed walls, green shutters and turrets at all four corners. Times, Sunday Times
The robbers first rammed the shop's closed shutters with a car before kicking and hammering their way in. The Sun
The interior is charming, with beamed ceilings, dark wood antique furniture and a light and airy upstairs with fine country views from the shuttered windows. Times, Sunday Times
The wig shop was shuttered and its owner had fled. Times, Sunday Times
This small, neatly shuttered mews house looked uninhabited. Times, Sunday Times
The house has 220 square metres of space and includes a number of period features such as fireplaces, window shutters and wooden floors.
I stared off into space, elbows on knees, as I heard the whir and click of the shutter.
I think most of the mid-city locations remain shuttered (the CC's on Esplanade, oddly, seems to have given up the ghost even though it had little or no flooding - last time I drove by it appeared to be completely empty with no signs of life whatsoever). Archive 2005-11-01
In these buildings, people used fire-resisting rolling shutter to replace the firewall as the partition facility to satisfy large space requirement.
He swiveled around, looking past green-shuttered doorways, past night-pooled balconies with pots of ferns and roses and geraniums hanging from their black iron scrollwork, the flowers perfuming the humid air, and toward the restless flickers of neon on Bourbon. Etched in Bone
During the update process, the shutter rotates into the image field to normalize the pixel offset.
This chamber was raftered, its walls hung with an obscure tapestry, its floor strewn with sand, and its lozenged casement partly shuttered against the blaze of sunshine that flowed across the forests far away to the west. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance
She wrapped the blankets more tightly around herself, staring morosely out the open, shutterless window of the hayloft where she slept.
Buttermilk Lane is like a natural echo chamber, taking my crazy chords and loopy lines and reverberating them around from stone wall to shuttered window.
He shifted to face her more squarely and stood very tall and erect, his expression shuttered and cold. Fox Fire Light
The village shop had put up the shutters for the night.
Close the doors, shutter the windows, send them all home.
A chemist, vet, optician, insurance agent and professional shutterbug, Samuel was known for his rhyming doggerel which was often published in the newspaper.
Floors jetty out, but are seemingly pulled back by the tambour shutters that make up the facade.
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For low light and fast shutter speeds you need a fast film and also a fast lens.
Most photographic factors, from focus to shutter speed, have manual overrides, so you can control pictures of the children unwrapping presents if you choose, or rely on the surprisingly effective automatic modes.
Strong gusts of wind rattled the shutters in their frames, driving the rain against the slate roof with such vigour it sounded like hail.
Otherwise use Venetian blinds in plastic or wood which can be easily wiped, or wooden shutters, or no covering at all.
The camera adjusts the lens aperture and shutter speed automatically.
Across the streets, people scattered or dived to the ground against shuttered shop doorways as the rattle of Kalashnikov fire criss-crossed overhead.
J & J has shuttered its plant in Fort Washington, Pa., which made many of the recalled medicines, and plans an extensive refitting. Shelved J
Its windows were shuttered, so that no one could see into the court from outside.
Shops were shuttered and the few people whom we saw looked grim and wary. Times, Sunday Times
Lesser things ran inside and outside, and tickled my skin until the light in my eyes fell to shutters and the back of my brain met it's front where darkness came, and darkness shivered, in the shallow pool of my unconsciousness where God looms and Hell calls in short bellows, slow cups, and weathered coughs. Burt Reynolds, the pig, and me.
He brought down the shutters on the image of the dying girl.
The room was painted white,with green shutters.
The off-white stucco walls and red shutters of Casa came into view, and a Mexican guard opened a red iron gate.
Heavy metal shutters which crushed a schoolboy to death as he played a daredevil game were branded a death trap by his mother at an inquest.
He reached up with a hooked pole to roll down the metal shutter.
Scorsese drenches Shutter Island in madness but not in the clichéd ways of overt, distracting symbolism or epilepsy-inducing camerawork and editing. SHUTTER ISLAND Review – Collider.com
The shutter selectively blocks and permits the passage of the ionization electrons to the collector.
The main purpose for the shutter is to offer the complete freedom of choosing the extent to which we want the elements to play a part in out interiors. Brooklyn Blinds
Often, Asians are only cast if the characters are specifically Asian, often leading to stereotypes like Japanese shutterbug tourists; the owners of restaurants, corner stores, or dry cleaners; exchange students; Asian gang members; martial artists/ninjas/samurais; or anything that would seem "funnier" if done with a thick Asian accent. Jonathan Kim: Why The Green Hornet's Kato Matters
Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. shuttered Home magazine in 2008, and is in the throes of an open house for increasing ad revenues and maintaining stable readership for its 'remaining luxury title Elle Décor. Charlotte Safavi: Met Home Gets the Hatchet

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