Sentence examples for gently shut from inspiring English sources

You crawl into bed, prop your head up on your pillow and gently shut your eyes to go to sleep.

Sinclair lost his seat in the Labour landslide of 1945, and the door to No 10 clicked gently shut behind them.

Then there was the era of dictation software, inspired by Richard Powers, whom I envisioned lying in bed, eyes gently shut, streams of literature flowing from his lips into his headset.

No problem: Press the button just forward of the front seats, and the doors swing gently shut.

By this time the children are sitting upright cross-legged on the floor or feet hanging on a chair, motionless as a statue with their eyes gently shut.

Her eyes gently shut and body spread wide, it's almost as if femininity is considered most beautiful when lifeless, that a woman is most desirable as an aesthetically pleasing spread of inactive parts.

Good night!" The door gently shuts, the elevator opens.

You take care yourself, he says, and gently shuts the door.

As the screenwriters Craig Mazin and John August pointed out recently on the Scriptnotes podcast, one delight of reading the transcript is watching Spielberg throw out bad ideas, and then noting how Lucas gently shuts him down.

It doesn't detect smoke or heat, but rather lets your smoke detectors and other gadgets do that — instead, it listens for the beep when smoke is detected, and quickly (but gently) shuts the door against the threat.

They locked the door from the inside, walked out, then gently pulled it shut.