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Example sentences for: shutting

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'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 ...
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.
Unions have a reputation for shutting down important services and ignoring public inconvenience for the sake of greed.
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.
1. Russ Johnson, amateur pinball historian, reacts to the news that WMS Industries is shutting down its assembly line, leaving Stern Pinball as the last manufacturer of the beloved game.