How to Use shut up in a Sentence

shut up

verb

• But that man turned around, shut up and strapped on his mask.
  — Alex Connor, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
• The colonel told it to shut up, and pushed himself from the table.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• Joe Biden telling trump to shut up is the highlight of my week.
  — Sonia Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2020
• The challenge is to learn to use with freedom the cage we’re shut up in.
  — Elena Ferrante, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• May the pueblo be ready to shut up the Eastside politico once and for all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2023
• Hey, Huskers, put a corncob in your pie hole and shut up.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• That may not shut up the fans, at least the ones in Los Angeles and New York.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• The City Council told us to shut up and trust it with our future.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
• They’ve been told by the veterans, 'Hey, shut up and play a role.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2020
• Back in the old days with a more feisty group of challengers, he would’ve been told to shut up and sit down.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
• Your neighbors won’t be banging on the walls telling you to shut up.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
• Time to quit talking about awards won or lost and put up or shut up.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2022
• But the Cougars will need to win plenty of games this season to shut up any doubters.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
• Kellen Moore was in his bag against the Bucs, which means his critics should shut up for a week.
  — Dallas News, 16 Jan. 2023
• Church members are trained at that point to shut up and raise our hands and go along with it.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
• And forgive me, Zooey, but my response to that was say it once and shut up.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• Dak Prescott shut up all his critics – at least for one week.
  — Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2023
• They were supposed to shut up and like it, to be central to a man’s life and to his success.
  — The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
• It’s put up or shut up time for dozens of cities across the San Francisco Bay Area.
  — Ben Christopher, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Grohl could be heard telling him to shut up, according to news accounts of the show.
  — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2022
• At this point, there is only one way to get Donald Trump to shut up.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2020
• Not just remembered it in my mind — my body wouldn’t shut up about it.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2022
• That's not to say school board critics should simply shut up.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 1 Oct. 2021
• When Ganske asked what was going on, someone told her to shut up.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• Then again, this columnist’s preference would be for the Fed just to shut up.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• Imma take another swing at it for the deluxe then shut up for a while.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 21 Dec. 2022
• Here’s the thing: One day, everyone’s going to just shut up about it.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
• With one swing, José Altuve shut up fans and woke up his teammates.
  — Tom Withers, Chron, 1 July 2021
• This song sparrow would be a better parent if the ravens would just shut up.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022
• Or maybe these boisterous boys just don’t know when to shut up—and the ladies know not to expect any less.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024