Words similar to shutting

Example sentences for: shutting

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

A Democratic candidate in 1995--at a time when Congress was shutting down the government, repealing the ban on assault weapons, and trying to shut down the Department of Education--would have taken seriously the issues that were at stake.
He horrified the publishing intelligentsia by shutting down Basic Books.
The striking thing about workers' comments after the vote was how many of them mentioned the possibility of the company shutting down its operations.
A piece profiles an Internal Revenue Service tax collector whose nightmare of a job mostly involves shutting down businesses in arrears.
If this sounds like too nice a distinction, consider common usage: factories shut down rather than shutting up; conversely, your rude brother may ask you to shut up, not shut down.