Sentence examples for physically shut from inspiring English sources

There were 10 people sharing kitchens and lots of stuff was broken – you had to hold the oven physically shut for it to work!

But though our doors may be physically shut, access to our collections is still very much open, and not just to those who visit our London site, but to people across the whole world.

Jesper: So unless you physically shut down the screen, it's simply too tempting?

He and several others had physically shut off oil pipelines as an act of protest to the fossil fuel industry.

In an enclosed space, we are mentally (and physically) shut in, and going outside has helped distract me from my own thoughts.

The only shot they had at protecting themselves — and the world — was to break into oil company property and physically shut the pipelines down, they would have argued.

"I was physically shutting down". .

"You intervene, and you physically and aggressively shut them down".

After dark, sometimes I'm the only one there [at the compound]…I have to physically open and shut the gate by myself…I always ring my husband and say I'm on my way if I'm late so he knows…it is not safe.

(Nurse 4, 45 years old, woman) After dark, sometimes I'm the only one there [at the compound]…I have to physically open and shut the gate by myself…I always ring my husband and say I'm on my way if I'm late so he knows…it is not safe.

Once in the cruiser, Haller says she was verbally and physically assaulted, told to shut up, held down, and repeatedly punched in the face.