How to Use shutdown in a Sentence

shutdown

1 of 2 noun

• The shutdown caused by the fire was bad but things could have been worse.
  — Lawrence Specker | , al, 4 Apr. 2023
• The White House and Democrats avoid a shutdown in Biden's waning days.
  — Hans Nichols, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
• And now, a complete shutdown of one of the T’s busiest lines going into the busiest time of the year.
  — Elizabeth Koh, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2022
• This is the option that Congress used just a few weeks ago to avoid a shutdown.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• The shutdown is set to remain in effect through Feb. 14.
  — Barry Williams, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2025
• The shutdown order, which lasts 45 days and can be renewed, was a break long in the making.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• When the world shutdown and working from home became the norm — so did working out.
  — Omaid Homayun, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• The shutdown is just the latest in a string of closures by the nation’s larges retailer.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 19 July 2023
• The shutdown will take place in phases but will be completed by the end of August.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2023
• The shutdown, which took place near Mile Marker 44, led to long delays and bumper-to-bumper traffic.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 4 Jan. 2025
• The company teased the shutdown last month and formally rolled it out with the 24.1.1 release.
  — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
• Existing Pro users will be able to play, free of charge, from now until the shutdown date.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
• The next three days, the shutdown was restricted to six districts, after which it was brought down to two.
  — Parth M.n., WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
• In addition, six stations will shutter for the first six weeks of the shutdown.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
• But the largest sign things were amiss: the sudden shutdown of the labor and delivery services unit.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 11 May 2024
• But this floor action in no way delays the Oct. 1 shutdown deadline.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• This in turn led to a five-day shutdown of the federal government.
  — Raymond Scheppach, The Conversation, 12 May 2023
• Iran is also in the midst of a three-day economic shutdown, which is set to end Wednesday evening.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2022
• The shutdowns will affect about 210 jobs, Bloomberg reports.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2024
• The six-day shutdown pushed some consumers to stockpile gas, leaving many pumps dry.
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 29 June 2022
• Aerate your lawn and add compost two weeks before the shutdown.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• The measure, which passed the House Wednesday, will push the looming Dec. 16 shutdown deadline to midnight Dec. 23.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
• The highway shutdown, which took place near mile marker 44, led to long delays and bumper-to-bumper traffic.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2025
• That means a shutdown could still hit the country – albeit a brief one with minor effects over the weekend.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
• When the pandemic hit, many feared small businesses would be wiped out by the shutdown.
  — Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2022
• But the 49ers have a shutdown ability that the Commanders haven’t seen since Dallas in Week 3, if at all.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2022
• The shutdown looms despite some bright business metrics for Axe-Men Throw House.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
• Brown said his business was down 40% because of the shutdown of salmon fishing last year, and the outlook this year isn’t much better.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• Samberg’s emergence as an elite shutdown defenseman has been a godsend for the Jets.
  — Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
• Then came a one-two punch of customer loss due to mass shutdowns and then a free-fall of prices driven by the oversaturation of eggs in the rebounding market.
  — Jia H. Jung, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025

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shut down

2 of 2 verb

• The link to the form appears to have since been shut down.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2024
• But that doesn’t mean the Dawgs should shut down the Buckeyes.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
• But too cold for too long and cells start to shut down and die.
  — Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 22 July 2024
• Solon was shut down early, but a fake punt near the end of the first was a spark.
  — Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
• Rides and games at the pier will shut down at 9 p.m. and the pier will close at 10 p.m., according to the park.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• As the Royals piled up hits, Lyles shut down the Red Sox.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• After his next start, he was shut down for the rest of the year due to injury.
  — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2024
• The crash shut down that portion of I-359 for nearly six hours.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2023
• The play shut down in March 2020 because of the pandemic.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2022
• The processing of green cards in the U.S. was mostly shut down.
  — Abha Bhattarai and Lauren Kaori Gurley, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2022
• Schools, in general, are shut down for the day as well.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2023
• Despite the change, the event was shut down just a few songs into the rapper's set.
  — Violet Ikonomova, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2024
• Pub in downtown has been shut down since the start of the pandemic.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
• Smith has said his business shouldn't have been shut down.
  — Garrett Moore, Arkansas Online, 20 Jan. 2023
• One of the lines had to be shut down in March of that year due to excessive moisture.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• If Trump was back in the White House, the agency would shut down the entire golf course to protect him.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2024
• The lawsuit said she was raped for an hour and a half until the party was shut down.
  — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022
• Literally my first day on the movie was when the world shut down.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2024
• The earliest states close their polls at 6 p.m. EST, and the last polls in Alaska shut down at 9 p.m.
  — Joe Walsh, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• The service is set to shut down in the country on February 27th.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2024
• Police had a heavy presence outside the town hall and shut down the block to traffic.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Sep. 2024
• Bennett planned to shut down the shop for two weeks and hoped that many, if not all, of the baristas would be part of the new version of the project.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
• The Cruise shut down, rather than hand wringing and gnashing of teeth, has instead been more like a shrug.
  — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
• Leon Chenal and Cole Christiansen with the backside pursuit shuts down the fake punt.
  — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2024
• Luckette and Farmer want the restaurant shut down and for Diong to be charged with assault and battery.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
• Scotland police were even called to the scene, the event shut down and parents said their children were in tears.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
• Part of the weight was lifted not long after the announcement that the team would be shutting down.
  — Greg Engle, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• Gay clubs in Uganda have been shut down, so the group of friends head to a local dance party instead.
  — James Longman, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• The company decided to shut down 8,000 stores for racial bias training.
  — Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
• The original plan for that year was to spend half of the time in the West African nation of Togo, but the universities there ended up shutting down due to political instability.
  — Brad Pearce, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 12 Mar 2025