How to Use shut in in a Sentence
shut in
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Her mother’s blinds would be shut in the middle of the day.
—Yasmin Rafiei, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
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Wales was the worst affected region: 52 pubs shut in the first half of the year.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
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Just over 21% of oil production and more than 25% of gas has been shut in.
—Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 14 Sep. 2020
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His eye was swollen shut in the video, and he was seen breathing out of an oxygen mask at the time.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 23 Jan. 2023
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Schools and businesses are shut in parts of the country.
—Stephanie Busari, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
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When a bug touches any of the plant’s many senor hairs, the trap snaps shut in under a second.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2023
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The actor’s eye was swollen shut in the video, and he was seen breathing out of an oxygen mask.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
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Renner’s eye was swollen shut in the video, and he was seen breathing out of an oxygen mask at the time.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 21 Jan. 2023
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The coastal enclave’s few points of entry largely shut in March.
—Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2020
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Tate said that many people have been shut in for the last two years because of the pandemic.
—Suzi Parker, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2022
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In 2016, the team sewed the eyelids shut in two monkeys; the sutures dissolved in a few days, but the eyes remained closed for a year.
—Bydavid Grimm, science.org, 19 Oct. 2022
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Russia and Ukraine are both leading exporters of grain, and the war has shut in much of that production.
—Ian Bremmer, Time, 4 June 2022
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Tens of thousands of prisoners were sent here before it was shut in 2005.
—James Hookway, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
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Vast swaths of production in the Permian — the heartland of U.S. shale output — have been shut in.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2021
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The project began in late January of this year, and the bridge was temporarily shut in mid-June.
—David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022
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Just gotta hope that Morrissey keeps his mouth shut in real life and doesn’t ruin the moment.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 7 June 2022
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Two hydro-electrical plants had to be shut in the area because there was not enough water to cool them.
—Kaly Soto, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022
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The case was opened and shut in 17 days, and no one in the family understood that Esler was signing away her rights.
—Elinor Carucci, ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2021
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Then, he was shut in by the pandemic in 2020 and hasn’t liked venturing far since — especially in the heat.
—Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
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These cities around the world celebrate the chillier months in a big way, proving that frigid weather doesn’t have to mean being shut in.
—Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2021
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And most importantly, the reality is that the door has been shut in these women’s faces.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 7 June 2022
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Photographs of Perkins in the hospital show her lips and tongue inflamed and her eyelids sealed shut in order to help her corneas heal.
—Casey Tolan, CNN, 4 May 2023
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Throughout, theaters remained shut in the five boroughs.
—Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
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Malls, restaurants, bars and places of worship have been shut in some places, but New Delhi is the first to reimpose sweeping measures like the ones employed last spring.
—Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
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Consumers who accumulated savings while shut in their homes for much of the past year have money to spend.
—David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2023
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But a window of opportunity seems to have closed, shut in part by the public’s fatigue and burnout from the pandemic.
—Suzan Song, STAT, 19 Dec. 2020
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As oil prices plunged amid lockdowns, companies and OPEC nations pared investment and shut in wells.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
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Zero restaurants were ordered shut in Palm Beach County over the same time period.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
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The atmosphere was orderly and relaxed, with the slightly slaphappy energy that comes when a group of people agree to be shut in a warm room for hours on end.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
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The restaurant was last ordered shut in December for similar issues with live flies.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
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