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Example sentences for: shuts

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

One week, you're the only one he can turn to when Newt shuts down the government; the next, you're bucking him up for Saddam.
Not a real party, with people she knew, but a Party party, the kind with spotlights outside that shuts a neighborhood down.
Under snow, its classical shapes--domes and pediments, octagons and pyramids--are linked in a geometry that remains generally pure, thanks to the speed with which government shuts down at the first sight of falling flakes."
Eventually, someone apparently shuts off the engines.
First of all, when an establishment shuts up, it simply closes, but when it shuts down, it ceases activity.