Words similar to shuts

Example sentences for: shuts

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

Krugman's dogmatism shuts out critical thinking, preventing adaptation to new eras and events.
Eventually, someone apparently shuts off the engines.
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."
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.