Sentence examples for shut firmly from inspiring English sources
Two years later, a second door to dreamland shut firmly in my face.
We swayed back down the corridors to our cabin, past doors shut firmly to the world by sensible early-to-bedders.
A ghost story should snap shut firmly, a door shut by an unseen hand: the otherworldly needs that artificial closure, or everything gets swallowed up in fear.
As with the suitcase you pack to take on holiday, a bivalve's shell must be shut firmly tight and not interfered with before the journey starts.
Once opened, keep it in its packaging but place the whole packaging into an airtight container with the top of the packaging folded down and shut firmly.
But having opened the door to that prospect, the court shut it firmly today.
The report gives a damning verdict on how the last time the window was open, it was slammed shut and firmly bolted, by those in charge.
Of a love-struck couple in wartime he wrote: "When it got very bad / they leapt into each other's eyes / and shut them firmly".
And one senses that Frazier knows the door has in fact shut pretty firmly on his subject, for all that he admires Moore's work and is interested by the man.
"And so, Rhonda, be encouraged!" This wasn't exactly the response of a man who had seized an opportunity to discourage post-election chaos, or even violence — to shut down, firmly, all the talk about how the only way Donald Trump won't be President is if Hillary Clinton is an illegitimate one.
