Sentence examples for dropping shut from inspiring English sources

Even as my eyelids are inexorably dropping shut, and moments after KP has raised his fifty, Cook goes, out lbw to an inswinging yorker that hit him on his toe.

Eyes drop shut and I suspect more than a couple of people have fallen asleep, lulled by the story.

It's an all-steel green hopper accessible to all birds but not to squirrels: when a heavy paw hits one of the two spring-weighted perches, a shield drops down, shutting off the seed supply.

Between its abutments were ten piers, framing eleven gates that could be lifted or dropped, opened or shut, like windows.

It escalated to the threat of strike action but despite this being dropped, the operator shut down the plant and issued a "survival plan", which was rejected by union members.

This was dropped but Ineos shut down the plant and issued an offer of revised terms and conditions in a survival plan, which was initially rejected by union members.

The total number was once closer to 12,000, but the figures began to slowly drop when Macedonia shut its border with Greece in early March. .

On Tuesday the premier offered the greyhound industry "one last chance" after dropping his pledge to shut down the industry by July next year.

A strepitus, or loud noise, often made by slamming a book shut or dropping it on the floor, evokes the earthquake that is said to have followed Christ's death.

At 240 meters half or more of the dam's 20 turbines would be severely damaged or shut down, dropping electricity output sharply.

This problem of voluntary reporting adds to what is known as survivorship bias, by which poorly performing funds that shut down drop out of the index.