Sentence examples for basically closed from inspiring English sources

"They were basically closed for business".

"I basically closed my eyes and she put it in my arm," Ms. Rodriguez said.

But a lot of the other stores have basically closed up.

"The red shirts have basically closed it down because it's located near of the center of their protests".

"The German labour market was basically closed for Polish workers and that kind of changed everything," Dustmann says.

"The capital markets are basically closed to the merchant type of business," said Arleen Spangler, a director in the utilities, energy and project finance group at Standard and Poor's.

"This basically closes the door for a peaceful transfer of power, unless something really unexpected takes place in the next couple of days," said Abdul Ghani al-Iryani, a political analyst in Sana, the Yemeni capital.

He added: "We're going to be pulling at least 150 intelligence staff out of other roles across the service to put them back into intelligence work at the frontline; and possibly 300, which will basically close half of what we are doing in other areas".

That right there basically closes the book on any chance they were related.

Europe stands for human rights, and now it's basically closing its eyes to human rights".

For all of last night's fireworks, the window of opportunity for any of Mitt Romney's rivals to knock him out of the top spot is basically closing fast.