Example sentences for: open-and-shut

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

  • Sounds like an open-and-shut case.

  • The dress and Monica's story would nail him, an open-and-shut perjury case.

  • Supreme Court rejected these entreaties, saying, variously, that 1) Breard had failed to protest in state courts; 2) access to a consular official would probably not have changed his insistence on pleading innocence (against his lawyers' advice); 3) the murder was especially vicious; 4) the case (complete with DNA tests and the defendant's confession) was open-and-shut; and 5) an apology to Paraguay would suffice.

  • Although all the coverage describes the last-minute legal maneuvering, no one explains how it was that this open-and-shut case took fifteen years to resolve.


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