Sentence examples for pushed shut from inspiring English sources

"When I woke up I noticed the drawer beside the bed was open and the door was only pushed shut, whereas I always close it.

I was just feeling my way round my own head - just checking - when a very Welsh voice said: 'Pontypool boys should feel at home in here,' and the very narrow, but very heavy cell door was pushed shut behind me.

In "Chest of Drawers," a prospective father feels acutely underinvolved in preparations for the birth of his daughter, and so he develops chest cavities that can be pulled open and pushed shut, filling them with tiny babies from the toy shop.

Seven billion of us allow fossil fuel companies to push shut the narrow atmospheric door through which humanity stepped.

But he remembers it well: pushing shut the heavy doors of cedar, visiting the sanctuary and replenishing the seven gold branches with consecrated olive oil so that the flames will burn brightly all night long.

When one delegate, remarking that the room had been paid for by the Coordinating Committee, attempted to meet force with force and enter, he was caught for some time in the door, which the guards were pushing shut, and then was forcibly dragged some distance down the hallway.

And with all these extreme scenarios still possible, might it be a good idea for the Nets to abandon their stated and unrealistic goal of a late playoff push, shut Williams down for the season, let Lopez return from his sprained ankle just enough to demonstrate his health, and maximize their chances to wind up with one of the three top picks in the draft?

Both Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates have pushed to shut down Guantánamo because it undermines America's standing and influence.

In desperation I stepped over to the closet, with its two sliding doors, then rolled one door open, plunged inside, pushed it shut.

The first came from late February, when the Freedom Caucus pushed to shut down the Department of Homeland Security as a way to pressure President Obama to abandon his executive actions on immigration.

Mrs. Shaftes began to open her car door, and he pushed it shut and waved.