Sentence examples for were shutdown from inspiring English sources
noun
The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc.
- You need to enter your password at startup, but it's not required at shutdown.
As thousands of workers await news of their essential-or-not employment status, many 'non-essential' government services were shutdown: national parks, monuments, even Nasa.
Blood banks in Guizhou were shutdown in 2006 due to hepatitis contamination in some branches.
In 2009, more than 15,000 sites with pornographic content were shutdown.
It and Hong Kong-based Phoenix Television were shutdown for a day because they had "exerted a bad influence on online opinion," according to the Beijing Internet Information Office.
They were shutdown people, always silent.
All 48 of Japan's power plants were shutdown in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, with the last one being switched off in September 2013.
"There would be devastation if there were shutdowns even for a few weeks," he said.
Much of the site was shutdown, but there was a link to a copy of the injunction.
"The one thing that you talk about during the season and spring training is shutdown innings," Girardi said.
ActiveSpaces was shutdown.
ZunZuneo was shutdown in 2012.
