Sentence examples for being firmly closed from inspiring English sources
The culture of PEDs has been broken; the steroid parenthesis in baseball history is being firmly closed.
Classroom doors were firmly closed and no one came near.
A shop with a sign claiming that it is open day and night is firmly closed.
His study door was firmly closed every morning, a sign of the barrier Saul drew between writing and living".
By the 18th century, slavery became exclusively black, and the legal loopholes the early Angolans had exploited were firmly closed.
He walks past me and goes to the front door to check that it is firmly closed.
Heathrow's proposals may prise open a door on night flights that has been firmly closed for 25 years".
But the financial sluice gates have now been firmly closed: the big US banks have either been wiped out or humbled, while private equity and hedge funds are on the ropes.
After Sanders's strong showing in Iowa and New Hampshire, there was a moment when this contest looked possible, but, once Clinton and the Democratic Party machine reasserted control in Nevada and South Carolina, Bloomberg's window of opportunity was firmly closed.
Sadly since the 2015 election, that window has been firmly closed by the Tories and that report buried, another example of the unwelcome difference between a government with the Lib Dems in it and one where the Tories govern alone.
