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Discover Ludwig"shut the gate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about closing a gate, such as a gate to a garden or an entryway. Example sentence: Before you leave, can you please shut the gate?.
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They even shut the gate when they left".
I brought the unit around back and shut the gate.
His parents shut the gate behind them and declined to speak to reporters.
He led the dog into the back yard and firmly shut the gate.
Eventually, the market's general manager shut the gate, turning away more trucks until extra plowing crews could clear the area.
I felt the same, until one of my children, at age 12, developed an attention span so short that she often forgot to shut the gate.
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They had to shut the gates to the gallery".
"We had contingency plans to shut the gates," Mr. Dalrymple said.
"So many came we couldn't even shut the gates," said Sister Michael Chiroodza, a Catholic nun.
The joke is that the screws thought we were trying to escape, that's why they shut the gates.
Who wouldn't be worried about ten thousand people marching through their back garden and forgetting to shut the gates?
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com