Sentence examples for and shut in a from inspiring English sources

"I was down with some sort of flu which they thought was infectious and shut in a room by myself and had lots of time to read the letter," he said.

In a different universe, would the ultra-Orthodox father of 10, with his black suit and the beard up to his eyebrows, now high and ravenous and shut in a Florida pantry with a bad case of the munchies?

The biggest and most controversial power plant debacle was the $2.9 billion, 2,184-megawatt Dabhol Power project, built by Enron and partners in the 1990's and shut in 2001 in a dispute over rates and late payments with the plant's only customer, the Maharashtra state utility.

R.B. McLean Lumber Co., opened in 1926 and shut in 1965, was a small, family-run operation.

To prepare that chicken for the oven, he stuffed some lemon and herbs in its cavity and tied it shut in a tight cat's cradle: around the legs, under the neck.

I had this image of coming out from under and seeing the light for a bit and then being shut in a kitchen, which I think happened to women of my generation".

You can also end your eye workout by simply closing your eyes and keeping them shut in a dark, quiet room for several minutes.

But two years in a strict boarding school and one shut in an internment camp with 400 men, stood between him and the other students.

But he pointed out that Osgood had two Stanley Cup rings and that Snow, 33, played well and kept his mouth shut in a backup role when Osgood was claimed in the waiver draft last season.

One councillor, qualified in the field, was shut in a room and given two hours to read it.

"In the old days, Everest was scaled only by people with years of experience, who could tie a knot with their eyes shut in a blizzard and had a good record of peaks they had retreated from and survived.