Sentence examples for held shut from inspiring English sources

If a child's mouth is being held shut, sometimes the man's fingers can be bitten hard.

Made with a fine woodworker's craft, it has a hinged front door held shut by a butterfly catch.

The zip was held shut by a common travel-style Yale padlock through holes in two zip fasteners.

A Jamaican-born flex dancer called Limpie reclined in a swivel chair next to a battered armoire with doors held shut by a knotted black cable.

The lower half of the back is a hinged panel, held shut magnetically until you pop it out with a fingernail.

The lower half of the back is a hinged panel, a razor-thin kickstand, held shut magnetically until you pop it out with a fingernail.

In fact, after trying numerous approaches and trying to work through the car's software controls, Deeter found himself driving to a board meeting with one hand on the steering wheel and one holding shut the driver-side door.

Ferguson died trying to hold shut a door that wouldn't lock while Lopez shot through it, Haley told WTSP.

The gunman then used his weapon -- identified by investigators as a Kel-Tec Sub 9, Sub 2000 or another folding carbine -- and shot out the glass door, which the women had been attempting to hold shut.

If God were to hold shut in his right hand all truth, and in his left hand nothing by the ever restless quest for truth, though with the condition of my erring forever, and if he were to say to me, "Choose!" - I would bow humbly to his left hand, and say, "Father, give!

She travelled as inconspicuously as possible, armed with essentials, such as a screwdriver, loo paper, and a twist of wire to hold shut doors without locks.