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Example sentences for: shutting

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Between two and four inches of rain fell during the morning rush hour, effectively shutting down the subway and flooding many streets.
The latter would probably call for shutting off immigration, erecting permanent, high-tariff walls, and "solving" the problem of unemployment by stigmatizing the least employable.
In this spirit, the lead paragraph of the Journal's earthquake article merits quoting in full: "A powerful 45-second earthquake cut a swath through Turkey's industrial heartland, killing thousands of people, shutting businesses, wrecking major power lines and jolting national confidence just as the economy showed signs of leaving 1999's recession behind."
When the film begins, in the early '30s, he (played by Tim Roth) is a white Prohibition beer baron who has muscled his way into the neighborhood numbers racket, shutting down competitors or forcing them to join his operation.
'Only now for the first time I see/ This wall is actually a wall, a thing/ Come up between us, shutting me away/ From you ...