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Example sentences for: shutting

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Also by about 9:00, transit officers began shutting down subway stations in the vicinity of the World Trade Center and evacuating civilians from those stations.
What's more, after later discovering an unfamiliar set of keys in my pocket, I subsequently realized that apparently, while stumbling around in a stupor after shutting off the alarm clock, I'd put on my girlfriend's pants by mistake.
Between two and four inches of rain fell during the morning rush hour, effectively shutting down the subway and flooding many streets.
President Clinton's legal defense fund is shutting down.
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.