Sentence examples for drawn shut from inspiring English sources
"drawn shut" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to something that has been closed or shut in a deliberate way. For example: The curtains were drawn shut, blocking out the sun's rays.
The curtains were drawn shut.
"All day long the curtains were drawn shut and the blinds down.
They retract during the day but are an imposing barrier when they are drawn shut.
There they found a room whose flame-coloured curtains were drawn shut, and whose only form of light derived from large, flickering six-foot candles of the kind normally seen on a church altar.
In his office, the curtains to his right were drawn shut to keep out the view of the opposite hill of Har Homa, a huge Jewish suburb whose construction he had worked against in the 1990s.
"Jim would often sit home with these heavy curtains drawn shut," said Martin Heinz, a friend, one of the few to maintain contact with him in the last months.
They got into the elevator, and, as the doors drew shut, she said, "Goodbye, D.O.J".
When the rescue workers found a body, or at least a body largely intact, they placed it into a black nylon bag, drew shut the zipper and laid it on the edge of the crash site.
With the schedule running late, the stadium's gates were just drawing shut when Pascall came through – becoming the first and only amateur woman to complete the route on time.
The drawn curtains shut out the snow and the starless sky, and the deathly silence out there in the biting cold is forgotten in the noise and warmth of our little room.
It may be strange to see a house that always has their curtains open suddenly completely drawn tightly shut for a week.
