How to Use shut in in a Sentence

shut in

verb

• Her mother’s blinds would be shut in the middle of the day.
  — Yasmin Rafiei, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
• Wales was the worst affected region: 52 pubs shut in the first half of the year.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• Just over 21% of oil production and more than 25% of gas has been shut in.
  — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 14 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Schools and businesses are shut in parts of the country.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The coastal enclave’s few points of entry largely shut in March.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Vintage fire doors, made of metal and held ajar by ropes, are angled to slide shut in response to flames.
  — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Mar. 2024
• Tens of thousands of prisoners were sent here before it was shut in 2005.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Just gotta hope that Morrissey keeps his mouth shut in real life and doesn’t ruin the moment.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 7 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And most importantly, the reality is that the door has been shut in these women’s faces.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 7 June 2022
• 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
• Throughout, theaters remained shut in the five boroughs.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Savage said doctors do not know whether Jackson will ever see again out of that eye, which appeared to be swollen shut in court Monday.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
• 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
• As oil prices plunged amid lockdowns, companies and OPEC nations pared investment and shut in wells.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• Zero restaurants were ordered shut in Palm Beach County over the same time period.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024