Sentence examples for were shut by from inspiring English sources

Most were shut by the mid-1970's, and the last closed in 1996.

The gallery doors were shut by the doorkeeper and the three women were caught.

The melee was made worse because the glass front doors were shut by the crush of bodies.

At least three oil refineries in the United States and four in Canada were shut by the blackout.

Energy experts said the waiver might not bring immediate relief to fuel-strapped New York and New Jersey, where two refineries were shut by Sandy.

Ocala National Bank in Florida and Suburban Federal Savings Bank of Crofton, Md., were shut by federal regulators, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said.

The plant is scheduled to be shut by April 2015.

Its 18 nuclear reactors are aging — all but one will have to be shut by 2023.

The government says all of the U.K.'s remaining coal plants will be shut by 2025 – maybe sooner.

Security Pacific, with $561.1 million in assets and $450.1 million in deposits, was shut by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Plants in Bow, N.H., and Clinton, Miss., will be shut by the end of 2005, Graphic Packaging said.