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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alternately shut" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something is closed or turned off in an alternating manner, often referring to doors, windows, or devices.
Example: "The doors of the train alternately shut as passengers hurried to board."
Alternatives: "open and close in turns" or "close in succession".
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He alternately shut himself in his room for days at a time or went out alone into the countryside.
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In Bed With then similarly opened with dense, stop-go phrases, as if a door into the gig was being alternately opened and shut.
Some systems allow you to alternately power or shut down 1 or more fans as needed.
Called "Little Lame Prince and the Magic Cloak," the musical is set in Moorish Spain, where the boy hero, played alternately by Marshall Pailet and Michael Dunn, is shut in a tower, lonely and unable to walk.
Each side of the bilaterally symmetrical, rosette-like, four-headed penis [similar to that of reptiles and 7 cm in length] is used alternately, with the other half being shut down between ejaculations.
"It's the hottest art form around, and not to know something about it is to ignore the foremost endeavor of our time". In "Coming of Age in the Milky Way," Ferris, 46, details humanity's scientific rites of passage, charting how our views of the universe have expanded and contracted as peoples' minds alternately opened with scientific curiosity and slammed shut in ignorance.
Shut up.
SHUT: Shut doors and windows.
Windows shut.
S.W. Shut.
Then shut.
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