Sentence examples for shuttered from inspiring English sources

The fourth-largest city in Spain had lost its former glory as a manufacturing centre: its factories shuttered, its port decrepit.

Then – in one 343km leap – I was in Bayonne, a shuttered, half-timbered, riverfront town within easy hitching distance along the coast of the swish resorts of Biarritz and St-Jean-de-Luz.

Looking up into the shafts, we see another world, fragmentary views of light wells and corners, doorways and shuttered windows, air-conditioning units and alleys.

At around 7am, the day's arrivals are walked from the small industrial port where their boats have been brought in by police launch and around the corner into the picturesque harbour of Kos Town, past the shuttered shops and cafes and on a 20-minute walk to the very outskirts of town.

Even 24-hour gas stations and convenience stores were shuttered, though at some the neon "OPEN" signs still flickered.

The finest features are the original ones – the internal courtyards, traditional floor tiles, huge bedroom doors and shuttered windows opening on to balconies – all of which retain the authentic spirit of place.

If a business is inefficient, it is eventually either turned around or it is shuttered.

Many shops are still shuttered.

By grouping these shuttered filters in threes, one of each colour, an individual picture element, or pixel, is created.

Back within the well-shuttered Carrera and gathering in its imposing reception area sheathed in black glass, Pinochet's many moneyed supporters toasted him with champagne, and his three fellow members of the junta from the navy, air force and gendarmerie.

This much is revealed in the details of the street – the street signs, the lamps, the carefully constructed squares, the blue-shuttered balconies, the old tram tracks and the cobbled paving stones.