How to Use close up shop in a Sentence

close up shop

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  • When the show ends, Smith said the partners will close up shop and travel.
    — Conrad Swanson, The Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Why the bookstore is last to close up shop may be the real mystery.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 July 2021
  • First, in many cases, the choice for managers is to pay ransom or to close up shop.
    — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • That means Burger King can't just snap its fingers and close up shop.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • And across the street, the staff at the local mini mart on Sollers Point Road have sandbags at the ready to barricade the glass doors and close up shop.
    — Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Others, lacking the space to spread out safely, have had to close up shop early.
    — Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • For one of the most fearsome beasts to ever walk the earth, the Tyrannosaurus rex certainly gets made fun of a lot: Why did the T. rex have to close up shop?
    — Jonathan Shipley, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Business owners weren’t sure if the building would be shut down, forcing them to close up shop or move.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2023
  • Business owners weren’t sure if the building would be shut down, forcing them to close up shop or move.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2023
  • Last week the Taliban confirmed that all beauty salons in the country must close up shop in one month.
    — Malaina Kapoor, WSJ, 10 July 2023
  • Unless new revenue sources are found, some of the smaller First 5 agencies may close up shop.
    — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But after being open for just four months, in March of 2020, the pandemic forced Mina’s to close up shop.
    — Jessie Heyman, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Others simply want to close up shop and use their agency as an ATM until the time comes to retire.
    — Drew McLellan, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The whole experience was and is a lesson in the fragility of it all, how quickly a body can simply close up shop.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Jade Roper Tolbert might be ready to close up shop in the baby department.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 7 Sep. 2020
  • There are three stages set up throughout the event, with the two smaller stages scheduled to close up shop each night right as the day’s headliner is going on.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The crypto crash could be another drag on the chip market, as crypto miners close up shop.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 15 July 2022
  • That’s when the family patriarch decided to close up shop for a day.
    — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The venture was short-lived, and Golla decided to close up shop after six months and join the team of one of her direct competitors, Winc.
    — Laurel Donnellan, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • As of Thursday, more Twin Cities museums will close up shop for the foreseeable future.
    — Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Our judiciary has decided to close up shop, because of the attempt to enter by the Sadrists.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2022
  • When mandated to close up shop, many didn’t have an outlet or following to sell their products.
    — Jenny Townsend, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022
  • TikTok might be scaling back its live e-commerce ambitions, but Amazon isn’t ready to close up shop.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 7 July 2022
  • Some may be able to cut expenses to break even and others may be rescued by private equity roll-ups, but many will close up shop.
    — Bob Kocher, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The hotel industry is warning of thousands of closures, and tens of thousands of small businesses are weighing whether to close up shop for good.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
  • While the channel offered to let the show continue through the midterm elections and to the end of November, the staff and Smith decided to close up shop immediately.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Shipping and production costs have risen in recent years, Day said, a key factor behind his decision to close up shop.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2022
  • As the population declines, that leaves fewer customers for businesses, so some start to close up shop.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Unlike many small Alaska towns, Anchorage doesn’t close up shop just because summer is over.
    — Katrina Brown Hunt, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2023
  • But increasing capital costs and an aging population led most of them to close up shop.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023

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