Sentence examples for shut away for from inspiring English sources

His interest awakened, he follows her home to discover that she lives in the Marshalsea debtor's prison (the presiding emblem of the book) where her father, William Dorrit, has been shut away for 23 years.

We've now seen innumerable articles about Roman Polanski and how he's being mistreated for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl (I admit I'm biased because I have a young daughter and believe he should be shut away for life).

They used furniture to construct makeshift barricades and had to remain shut away for hours.

If an evidently respectable and rational woman like Packard could be condemned as insane and shut away for years, it followed that any American woman might suffer dreadful wrongs under prevailing statutes.

It has been that way for years, ever since the stands were built higher and higher and sunlight was shut away from the grass.

Being shut away from experience has made Charlotte even lonelier than Bob, and their relationship flowers because he is eager for experience, too.

The walking disabled become shut-ins and, in a sense, shut away from the kinds of casual contact that those of us who are able to walk take for granted.

Along about this time, our friends Bobbie and Spencer Klaw were at home one Saturday night in their modest brownstone on Charlton Street with three of their four daughters and Bob Schultz, a young son-in-law, when they heard frantic sustained barking arising from the basement just below, from Jessie, a Lab puppy shut away there for house-training.

While people starved, the grain was shut away in barns for export.

By the end of August, corpses were being abandoned in the streets by families who did not want to be shut away in quarantine for 21 days, and then eaten by dogs.

A male widower remains shut away in his home for a period of one or two weeks, during which time the parents of the deceased send a female family member to care for him and keep him company.