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Example sentences for: shut

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Mao and his most radical followers shut down the nation’s institutions and went on a witch hunt for those alleged to harbor politically incorrect thoughts, behaviors, or backgrounds (which at times seemed to include anyone not waving Mao’s Little Red Book).
Even though critics have been chewing on Eyes Wide Shut for weeks, its reality problems are so severe that I have decided to call myself in as a specialist.
Yesterday's California Supreme Court decision, declaring Indian casinos to be in violation of a constitutional prohibition against gaming, threatens to shut down the state's $1.36 billion gambling industry.
Several big Hollywood studios were shut out of the top categories.
As Christian churches in Nazareth stayed shut in protest at Tuesday's cornerstone-laying ceremony for a new mosque on the site where the angel Gabriel is said to have told Mary she would give birth to Jesus Christ, Le Figaro of Paris led its front page Wednesday with the headline "Vatican-Israel: Open Crisis."