"close the cage" is a grammatically correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
This phrase is typically used when giving a command or instruction to someone to shut a cage or enclosure. Example: "Please remember to close the cage after feeding the birds to prevent them from escaping."
In California, a proposition making its way to next year's ballot would close the cage loopholes left in a 2008 ballot proposition that gave hens more space, but fell short of mandating cage-free farms.
Make sure you close the cage!
Make sure to close the cage door securely.
Last but not least, set your hamster down and close the cage.
If the hamster escapes often, close the cage with a metal lock on the outside.
when you hear the hammy running on it in the middle of the night, close the cage, and you caught him!
The tricky part will be closing the cage door without letting the squirrel loose.
During the night we close the chicks inside the cage.
We next closed the Faraday cage and allowed the worms to migrate freely within the plate with a homogeneous earth-strength (0.325 and 0.650 Gauss) magnetic field aligned with the plane of the assay plate.
After closing the Faraday cage, and with the coil system off, we measured the temperature on each probe in 5 min intervals for 20 min. At this point we powered the cage on to produce either a horizontal magnetic field of 0.650 Gauss (1× earth), or with a magnetic field able to cancel out the earth's own magnetic field inside the cage (field cancelled).
The billboards, featuring a portrait of incumbent Prime Minister Kiviniemi, were replaced with similar-looking posters featuring a blood-mouthed Kiviniemi and a text that read "Do you want to close the animals in small cages?
