Sentence examples for shut upon from inspiring English sources

They shut upon all souls.

A heavy, silencing kind of rain, a hand over the sky's mouth, a car door shut upon a hostage.

All but the Los Angeles restaurant, which has become a magnet for Hollywood celebrities, will be shut upon each location's sale.

As Hamlet said of Polonius: "Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in's own house".

The door that could have been shut upon the use of torture had been left open just a crack, and over the years to come, all manner of horrors would slip quietly through.

People literally fail to see Agnes: doors are shut upon her and she takes pains not to walk beside anyone on the way to church to avoid unpleasant silences.

"They just shut pit upon pit upon pit.

The door was designed to be remotely closed by a special effects operator, who shut it upon a signal from a spotter.

It is the biggest municipal bankruptcy to date in America, substantially larger than Orange County's insolvency in 1994.Rick Perry made another gaffe at the Republican presidential debates, when, after hesitating for 53 seconds, he could not remember the name of the third government agency he insisted he would shut down upon entering office.

Hazardous processes can be shut down upon detecting any number of abnormal conditions.

Now it seems that the negative impact won't just be in the form of lost customers or businesses shut down upon receiving data demands.