Example sentences for: closed-door

How can you use “closed-door” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Once again the Senate impeachment trial is the consensus news leader, with today's installment given over to yesterday's votes to press on and to closed-door depose three witnesses.

  • Today's big story is the Senate's closed-door debate of a motion to summarily dismiss the charges against President Clinton.

  • Let's review: He is married, they have no business reasons to get together, the whole office is chirping about their lengthy closed-door "meetings," they whisper, leave to have lunch together, and you think there is no more than a "flirtation."

  • But where aristocratic Europe feared closed-door cabals of powerful men, democratic America's suspicions focused on its own government.

  • The NYT reports one reason for the extent of Republican antipathy to such measures: In a recent closed-door meeting, House Republicans were told that for the 1997-98 election cycle, their party held a nearly $40 million advantage over the Democrats in soft money.


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