SHUT in a Sentence

Learn SHUT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

263 example sentences for SHUT, such as:

1. Into a shut mouth flies fly not.
2. A door must be either shut or open.
3. The door pinched my finger as it shut.
4. Anna felt shut out of the conversation.
5. A book that remains shut is but a block.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHUT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shut
 v.  stop operating or being in service
 v.  cause to close something, prevent from entering
 a.  closed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  At times, looking at Zeena's shut face, he felt the chill of such forebodings.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  As the shrill words shot out Ethan heard a tap on the door, which he had drawn shut when he turned back from the threshold.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  Ethan's hand dropped from the door-knob, which he had held clenched since he had drawn the door shut on Mattie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  The door of Mattie's room was shut, and he wavered a moment on the landing.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  "It's a pity, though," Mrs. Hale ended, sighing, "that they're all shut up there'n that one kitchen."
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  If you say 'war' just once more, I'll go in the house and shut the door.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  But it was something we did or said that made her shut up talking and look sort of sick.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  And those who were so traitorous as not to believe should, at least, have the decency to keep their mouths shut.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  She grabbed hold of the door to shut it with a bang, but the hook which held it open was too heavy for her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  She opened her mouth to tell him why Mrs. Meade could not come and then shut it abruptly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  The room was in semigloom, for Scarlett had pulled down the shades to shut out the heat and brightness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  She was a child and mad with fright and she wanted to bury her head in her mother's lap and shut out this sight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  She shut the door and locked it and flung herself down on the sagging old sofa crying, laughing, kissing the letter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
14  She walked quickly into the parlor and shut the door behind her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  She shut her eyes tightly, trying to squeeze out tears, but remembered to turn her face up slightly so he could kiss her with no difficulty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
16  A book that remains shut is but a block.
17  Anna felt shut out of the conversation.
18  I could do that journey with my eyes shut.
19  She came into the room and shut the door.
20  I shut the shed door and wedged it with a log of wood.
21  You really can't shut him out so easily.
22  A door must be either shut or open.
23  The great gates of the abbey were shut fast.
24  They have kept the government shut to pressure the president to agree to a seven-year plan to balance the federal budget.
25  You have no idea how I'm feeling so shut up.
26  The mill was finally shut down by state safety inspectors.
27  The door pinched my finger as it shut.
28  I was shut out for being five minutes late.
29  Into a shut mouth flies fly not.
30  You may force a man to shut his eyes, but you cannot make him sleep.