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shut - use in sentences
Preposition: as
- plastic: Don gets Boro off backside Gate shuts as Plastics fail to.. .
Object
- gate: Follow the track to the gate by the bridge ( remembering to shut any previous gates which you may have opened!
- up...i: Ok I'm going to shut up...i tend to have rants!
- lid: The final nail in the already quite tightly shut lid of SOF II's coffin is the bad level designs.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- out: Synopsis Kim Andrews shuts out her history teacher, who is telling the class about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Modifying Another Word
- tightly: Yesterday we even had the blind blowing out behind a tightly shut window due to the draft!
- temporarily: At certain times the odor control system will be temporarily shut down to enable engineers to safely access the equipment.
- firmly: Doors must be shut firmly behind them to prevent anyone gaining unauthorized access to an area.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- down: Then shut down your computer in the normal way by going to Start then shut down.
- up: Seagoon: Please, now... Eccles: Shut up.
- off: I think there is a place where you can shut off getting emails.
Followed by a transitive particle
- down: Yeah, shut down the greatest website in the world.
- off: They fear abusive conservators will shut off life support to patients who would have chosen to live.
- up: Terry and Carvalho will shut up shop in the center.
Particle object: down_obj
- valve: When this occurs the only certain way to stop the engine is by the operation of an air intake shut down valve.
Particle object: up_obj
- shop: Terry and Carvalho will shut up shop in the center.
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