Sentence examples for shut against from inspiring English sources

French doors could be shut against hallway noise.

She knocked my hand off her breast, pressed her lips shut against my kiss.

He wanted to keep his mouth shut against her but he couldn't resist giving his opinion, beautifully expressed.

"It does get a bit lonely, sometimes," she concedes, heaving the barn door shut against the gale.

Hunt and her husband ducked into their storm shelter and wrestled the door shut against the wind's powerful suction.

The muscle is also capable of maintaining the tension needed to hold the shell shut against the spring action of the hinge ligament without using much metabolic energy.

When opponents shut down against this Brazil, it lacks the flair to break through.

Again, a closed market where Branson has tried to keep the door shut tight against further competition.

Clark rejects the idea that a person is complete in himself, shut in against the outside, in no need of help.

When Dr. Ahmed entered the room it was dimly lit with the blinds shut tight against the bright morning sun, and the patient was buried beneath a mountain of blankets.

KABUL — On a recent Friday afternoon, with the doors and windows shut tight against the gray November weather outside, a group of musicians sat in a circle at the Venue, a restaurant and recording studio that serves as the focal point for Kabul's burgeoning rock scene.