Sentence examples for keep it shut from inspiring English sources

"The catch mechanism allows a bivalve to snap its shell shut and keep it shut, should a predator come along and try to nudge it open," said corresponding author Trevor Wardill, a research fellow at the University of Cambridge and a former staff scientist at the MBL.

Prime Minister Tony Blair, who shut down the government of Northern Ireland, continued to keep it shut over disagreements on how the Irish Republican Army should disarm its arsenal of weapons, despite demands from Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, that the government be restored.

"I can't see how they can afford to keep it shut.

A balcony door should have a bar to keep it shut.

Mr. Evans pounded a single "spiked nail" into the closet door to keep it shut, and started pouring gas on the floor, Mr. Hampton said.

"The attorney general of Connecticut has been fighting to keep it shut; the attorney general of New York has been silent," Mr. Pataki said.

It was open, which surprised me as she always kept it shut because of the birds.

Their disappearance at the hands of unknown men outraged their colleagues, who shut down the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza on Friday in protest and have kept it shut since.

I should have kept it shut, but I was all open bar at this point.

"You don't want any kind of crack in the door to be open and I felt like we kept it shut from the front nine on," Spieth said.

Toby's response is to "put this child in the small cigar box I keep hidden in the back of my head, close its cardboard lid and snap a couple of rubber bands around it to keep it tightly shut.