Sentence examples for shut fast from inspiring English sources

"His sad blue eyes seemed to look beyond the convention hall upon the cities and fields and prairies, and backwards through history that has recorded the vain struggles of man, and forward into the unopened book of the future, shut fast in the hands of Fate, and shadowed with cruelty, injustice, and the tyranny of the past".

But the agency slammed the window shut fast when it refused to cough up documents to the committee that would tell more about its surveillance of Americans.

Among the distinctive features of No. 445, are the elevator doors, which are electrically impelled and open and shut faster than any previous elevator doors.

Trap-jaw ants of the genus Odontomachus are equipped with mandibles called trap-jaws, which snap shut faster than any other predatory appendages within the animal kingdom.

Once Europe is mobilised and the million-footed marching starts up, the escape route shuts fast: tragedy has commenced.

Donald Trump is within sight of becoming the presumptive Republican nominee, and the window for that to change in any dramatic way is shutting fast.

As you know, the window of interest today slams shut pretty fast".

PS Premiership windows open and shut so fast you can lose a marquee or two if you're not careful, but reigning double winners Melbourne Victory have the look of a team that has jammed their window open with something that'll take some shifting.

Even if you allow for the fact that it was written before Barack Obama won the US presidency on a premise of trust and optimism, its opening pages are depressing enough to make you want to shut it fast: "We find ourselves anxiety-ridden, prone to depression, driven to consume and with little or no community life".

In addition, when buyers disappear, the supply chain can never be shut off fast enough to avoid huge inventories.

Sometimes startups shut down fast, and in the case of new online scrapbooking maker Irrive, which only launched this past September, the company had barely even gotten started before closing up shop.