How to Use shut up in a Sentence
shut up
verb
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But that man turned around, shut up and strapped on his mask.
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Alex Connor,
USA TODAY,
20 Sep. 2021
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The dad in me needed to shut up and support his kid on the slow walk to the car.
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David Haugh,
chicagotribune.com,
15 June 2018
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The colonel told it to shut up, and pushed himself from the table.
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Hilton Als,
The New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2020
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Joe Biden telling trump to shut up is the highlight of my week.
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Sonia Ramirez,
Houston Chronicle,
30 Sep. 2020
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The challenge is to learn to use with freedom the cage we’re shut up in.
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Elena Ferrante,
Harper’s Magazine ,
16 Feb. 2022
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The more men told her to sit down and shut up, the less willing Chaney was to do it.
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Jessica Guynn,
USA TODAY,
6 June 2024
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The point is to get women of color to sit down and shut up.
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Jennifer Wright,
Harper's BAZAAR,
31 July 2019
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May the pueblo be ready to shut up the Eastside politico once and for all.
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Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2023
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At least some Jets fans wish Mr. Rodgers would just shut up and play.
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Ken Belson,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2024
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Hey, Huskers, put a corncob in your pie hole and shut up.
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Mike Bianchi,
orlandosentinel.com,
30 Oct. 2020
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Listen, at some point teams just have to shut up and play.
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Mick McCabe,
Detroit Free Press,
11 Mar. 2018
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His colleagues would tell him to shut up and gain some weight.
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The Economist,
4 July 2019
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That may not shut up the fans, at least the ones in Los Angeles and New York.
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Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Oct. 2022
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The bastards had shut up shop and gone off to chase women.
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Amos Oz,
Harper's magazine,
10 Apr. 2019
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The City Council told us to shut up and trust it with our future.
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Star Tribune,
12 Nov. 2020
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They’ve been told by the veterans, 'Hey, shut up and play a role.
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Bobby Nightengale,
The Enquirer,
19 Aug. 2020
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Back in the old days with a more feisty group of challengers, he would’ve been told to shut up and sit down.
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Kyndall Cunningham,
Vulture,
15 Dec. 2021
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The best way to shut up the sources is to win lots of games, not declare martial law on them.
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Paul Daugherty,
Cincinnati.com,
6 Aug. 2019
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Your neighbors won’t be banging on the walls telling you to shut up.
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David Remnick,
The New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2023
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Time to quit talking about awards won or lost and put up or shut up.
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Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
25 May 2022
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But the Cougars will need to win plenty of games this season to shut up any doubters.
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Norma Gonzalez,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
8 Aug. 2021
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Kellen Moore was in his bag against the Bucs, which means his critics should shut up for a week.
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Dallas News,
16 Jan. 2023
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Church members are trained at that point to shut up and raise our hands and go along with it.
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The Salt Lake Tribune,
26 Nov. 2020
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On any other night, that would have been the story and the thing Green could not shut up about.
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Kevin Acee,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
21 Apr. 2018
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And forgive me, Zooey, but my response to that was say it once and shut up.
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Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com,
al,
20 July 2023
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Dak Prescott shut up all his critics – at least for one week.
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Dallas News,
17 Jan. 2023
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They were supposed to shut up and like it, to be central to a man’s life and to his success.
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The New Yorker,
29 Dec. 2021
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It’s put up or shut up time for dozens of cities across the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Ben Christopher,
The Mercury News,
25 Jan. 2024
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Grohl could be heard telling him to shut up, according to news accounts of the show.
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NBC News,
27 Mar. 2022
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Adele tells a homophobic heckler to ‘shut up’ on first day of Pride Month in Las Vegas.
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Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2024
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