Sentence examples for fastened shut from inspiring English sources

Their window, too, was fastened shut.

"Untitled II" (2012-13) is a sculpture of a gate, its doors fastened shut with a spanner twisted out of shape, large nails splayed at the base.

There was just one catch: The lid was fastened shut, and the goat couldn't open it without help from a nearby person.

Waits, 61, had walked into the diner just off Highway 101 around lunchtime last week wearing blue jeans and a jean jacket and carrying a black leather bag the size of a briefcase fastened shut with buckles and packed with whatever it was that I'll always regret not asking about.

A man shipping boxes with The Simpsons logo on the side uses the tongue from a severed dolphin head to fasten shut the packages.

Lower the eyelids and fasten shut.

Unable to see or avoid potholes, he battered his vehicle until the muffler fell off and he lost a critical bolt that fastened the hood shut.

Acting on instructions from a reptile rescue expert, the officers, James McCarthy and Peter Molly, lassoed the gator's snout with a noose, reeled it in and fastened its jaws shut with duct tape, Detective Joseph Pentangelo, a police spokesman, said.

For one fluttering instant, he pictured Rosa Hinojosa in police blues with a cap cocked over her eye, a nightstick in one hand and a can of Mace in the other, and then he was pulling his door softly shut and fastening the latch, as if that would save him — but what was he going to do, hide under the bed?

Rather, somehow, people had fastened onto the book's title - "Shut Up, I'm Talking" - and taken it in an unintended direction.

Now shut and lock the doors, fasten your seatbelts and we're ready to go.