Sentence examples for shut use from inspiring English sources

If something needs to be sealed shut, use duct tape.

When sewing the gap shut, use a ladder stitch to make the seam look smoother.

If the netting doesn't adequately catch itself to keep the open area shut, use binder clips or similar to keep it closed during sleep.

One of the elevators will not budge unless riders jam the door shut — using the thin window ledge as leverage — a trick the tenants have learned.

Without thinking of possible consequences, I made the statement to my wife the other night that I could type just as accurately with my eyes shut, using the two-finger system, as she could with her smug touch system.

The BBC's director general, Tony Hall, has already suggested that the 24-hour BBC News TV channel may eventually be shut, using a "two horse" analogy to explain how it is likely to exist side-by-side with a digital video strategy to serve the differing needs of more traditional and tech-savvy licence fee payers.

By Fred Packard The New Yorker, July 4 , 1942P. 45 Without thinking of possible consequences, I made the statement to my wife the other night that I could type just as accurately with my eyes shut, using the two-finger system, as she could with her smug touch system.

Pinch the nose shut, using your thumb and index finger, and hold the nose shut for about 10 minutes.

Close the box and tape the top flaps shut using at least 6 pieces of heavy duty tape.

Sometimes, the mouth is sewn shut using suture string, passing a curved needle through the jaw under the gums and back up through the septum.

"Legally, there's just nothing there that could be used to shut us down.