"pressed shut" is an acceptable phrase to use in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is tightly shut as a result of pressing. For example: She pressed shut the envelope containing her precious letter.
The features are brutally crushed, there and not there, eyes pressed shut, one eyebrow oddly raised, the lips pushed in.
His hair is jet-black and very straight, and his face is composed of strong fine lines, clean and clear and exquisite like his pink-and-white skin; his eyebrows are as well-shaped as a woman's, his curved lips pressed shut as if he were holding in important news.
Perhaps you have noticed, however, that her full, firm lips press shut in an upward curve, so that her face in repose looks almost smiling — the expression of one who bites off nails with all the amiability in the world.
Among the latter is the so-called mother's kiss, a remedy for removing foreign objects from a child's nose, a rather frequent occurrence among children ages 2 to 5. The technique calls for a parent to press shut the child's unaffected nostril with her finger, then place her mouth over the child's mouth and deliver a short but sharp puff of air to expel the object from the obstructed nostril.
The New Yorker, December 22, 1962 P. 24 Note discovered on the desk of a Times editor just before the presses shut down: Boss: If we get strike, I'd be awfully grateful if you'd water my violets: Monday.
By H. L. Katzander and Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, December 22, 1962 P. 24 Note discovered on the desk of a Times editor just before the presses shut down: Boss: If we get strike, I'd be awfully grateful if you'd water my violets: Monday.
With the press shut out and information coming almost exclusively from the government, we have little choice but to go by what Peter Dutton tells us.
Some staffers set up shop at The Courier, an hour's drive away in Houma, Louisiana, and cranked out the first print edition since the Times-Picayune's presses shut down three days earlier.
Hold the button in for a few seconds and press "Shut Down", then restart the device.
There will be those thorny patches of misunderstanding and withholding, of demands for privacy and bedroom doors pressed firmly shut.
She knocked my hand off her breast, pressed her lips shut against my kiss.
