Sentence examples for keep shut from inspiring English sources

By the time he returns she should have been out the door that the director clearly wants to keep shut.

The plan is to keep shut eight reactors which were suspended in March in the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, and to close the rest by 2022.

New Zealand literature lacked a Victorian epic: Catton has set out to fill that gap while, like Michel Faber in his neo-Dickensian novel The Crimson Petal and the White, peering through doors Victorian writers had to keep shut.

For us, quite simply, it's that fire in the bones we cannot keep shut up.

Opening that box we so desperately wanted to keep shut -- frightened of what we might find.

"Our mission is to keep shutting down government offices".

"My glutes keep shutting off and that causes me pain in my back," he said.

Employers keep shutting their final-salary schemes, both to current members as well as new joiners.

"Our mission is to keep shutting down government offices, so don't ask us to give those back".

I don't have a choice except to keep shutting my eyes and turning away.

Which, in case you haven't worked it out, is why nightclubs keep shutting.