Example sentences for: shut

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

  • In a long piece for the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong Friday, the paper's Beijing correspondent wrote that early Chinese entry into the WTO was now impossible and that China would be shut out of the Seattle negotiations.

  • In a pre-release publicity coup for his forthcoming Eyes Wide Shut , Stanley Kubrick dies.

  • Today's installment is that the FBI has admitted overlooking evidence about China's domestic political lobbying until the Thompson hearings had already shut down.

  • When the reaction is not faux-naïf, it is censorious: Shut up and sublimate . Practitioners of self-exposure are many these days, of course, and none of them is Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

  • Jones said that when he wanted to investigate these findings, he was shut down.


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