Sentence examples for shut down about from inspiring English sources

Before rail services were shut down, about 20,000 people had arrived at the station over the weekend.

They boast openly about how many things shut down, about how they tough it out until the ice is off the rocky shores and the tourists return.

When the government shut down, about half of the Defense Department's civilian work force of 800,000 was ordered to stay home; military personnel are automatically exempted from the shutdown.

In the past two decades, the automaker has shut down about 25 plants, and close to 90percentt of the sites are being developed for other uses, according to Matthew Cullen, a general manager of economic development for G.M. (The company's cutbacks are not finished. G.M. plans to cut 30,000 jobs and close nine more plants by the end of next year).

Airlines along the storm's projected path had already shut down about 450 flights for Wednesday, most of them at Washington DC area airports.

The Texas abortion law has already shut down about half of the 42 clinics that operated across the state in 2013 before it went into effect, leaving large swaths of rural Texas without any abortion provider.

On Nov. 19, BASF said it was temporarily shutting down about 80 plants worldwide and reducing production at about 100 more due to what it said was a massive decline in demand.

Hope, for many, is in short supply, and two primary outlets for diversion — the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. — are either shut down or about to be.

Toddlers' taste buds shut down at about the time they start walking, giving them more control over what they eat.

In the past six years, 36 have been shut down, but about 200 complaints a year come in, only a fraction of the probable violations.

Workers shut down the pipe about 4 30 p.m., he said.