Sentence examples for sliding shut from inspiring English sources

The men and the boxes were inside, the side door sliding shut.

But five seconds later, all the train doors began sliding shut.

Only the occasional whump of a file drawer sliding shut or the whir of film on fast rewind broke the silence.

There is a movie with Gwyneth Paltrow that is about a woman who has a split second slip up, and misses catching her train just as the doors are sliding shut.

The echoing sound of the holding-cell sliding shut and meager comforts a former inmate at the facility told VICE News the VIP cell there is a 5x12 dorm room with a cardboard-thin mattress will serve as a constant reminder of where he is and what he has lost.

— Poetry Foundation For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop By David Wagoner I've watched his eyelids sag, spring open Vaguely and gradually go sliding Shut again, fly up With a kind of drunken surprise, then wobble Peacefully together to send him Home from one school early.

They stepped in as the door slid shut.

I opened my eyes as the door slid shut.

Ten more seconds passed before the doors slid shut.

The curtains slid shut behind her and it was dark again.

Hopping on one foot, I pogoed back onto the platform moments before the doors slid shut.