Sentence examples for slowly shut from inspiring English sources

Startled, she watched his head disappear and the door swing slowly shut.

He stopped and looked uncertainly at Margaret, whose mouth had dropped open and then slowly shut to a thinking line.

Over the past year, small cross-border traders have been slowly shut out by higher tariffs and new bureaucratic requirements, presented as measures to reduce smuggling and stop poor-quality imports from China.

Rob had slowly shut down every aspect of Helen's life that he no longer agreed with: her friendships, her money, even her son, Henry; all of it nothing for her "to worry about" any more.

But here in the Delta, where most of the legendary juke joints have slowly shut their doors and most of the bluesmen have died off or moved away, the blues is fading from the very place it was born, say the people who play it and others who live here.

But it is significant that on this day, when other sources are slowly shut off, a tech startup remains a revenue source for Wikileaks.

Only the scientists slowly shutting down the other three reactors and decommissioning the plant were allowed within its perimeters.

All of us passing in front of the Peter Cardella Senior Citizens Center that day were moving slowly, shutting down unnecessary functions and conserving whatever bit of energy we had.

A neat five-year-old with a shy smile, he might just turn out to be key to understanding why swine flu is slowly shutting down Mexico and keeping health officials around the world locked in emergency meetings.

Today, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said the United States was "worried about the fact that the oil sector is slowly shutting down, with economic consequences for all Venezuelans, but as well as others outside of Venezuela".

A thematic companion piece to Lars von Trier's Melancholia, this eerily affecting oddity posits a world in which mankind's senses are slowly shutting down, with the initial loss of smell provoking outpourings of Proustian grief as tangible memory evaporates like perfume on the breeze.