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Example sentences for: shut

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

You hoped Walters was feeling some pity for the life thereby wasted, was suppressing a grandmotherly impulse to shut this child up.
It seems to me that his next challenge is to get Hopkins to shut up, since with relatively little prodding the ex-mute wild man launches into a stream of resonant orations about life among the silverbacks: "Did they think of me?
In fact, Roberts seems to welcome the opportunity to be as flat and guarded--as shut down--as possible while still giving an ingratiating performance.
Second, when investigations devolve into nothing more than political or personal harassment, the prospective expense encourages prosecutors to shut down sooner rather than later.
Chatterbox (and, it must be said, Mrs. Chatterbox) lost patience with the extremely tedious exposition leading up to the Big Event and shut it off.