Sentence examples for shut like from inspiring English sources

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And slams the lid shut, like, "Oops," and opens it one more time, and hope pops out of the box.

Might it snap shut like a clapperboard?

She clapped the phone shut like a castanet.

The silver lighter snapped shut like a scared turtle.

Between its abutments were ten piers, framing eleven gates that could be lifted or dropped, opened or shut, like windows.

And I like when I give you the nightfeed, Harvey, how you're really concentrating on it: fists clenched, eyes shut, like this is bliss.

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My mouth opens and shuts like a fish.

She opens and shuts like a sea anemone.

The oyster-shaped hut opens and shuts like a shell and is encased by bumpy copper tiles, which will weather to a sea green.

A snipe – I can see its long beak opening and shutting like tweezers, its brown and cream markings that make it blend in so well.

TV cables are snaking down the corridors, photographers stand in huddles and the doors keep opening and shutting like a Feydeau farce.

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