Sentence examples for while shut from inspiring English sources

If you need to open a window for a while, shut the door to that room so the cat can't get out.

Referred to in Anne's diary as Peter van Daan, he was the teenage boy with whom she enjoyed the beginnings of a romance while shut away in the secret attic with their families.

Are people just pleased at the notion of getting a message across while shutting up?

That nicely fit into the Chinese script of talking up sports while shutting down politics.

It is a deceptive sham that would magnify the influence of wealthy interests while shutting out many middle-class voters".

He tried to revive the business by selling more products to supermarkets and online while shutting unprofitable stores.

Justice Souter, while shutting the door to federal court to some patients, may have opened the doors of state courts.

The states should find ways to reward colleges that turn out excellent graduates, while shutting down diploma mills.

Anyone who was capable of writing odes to Stalin while shutting his eyes to the Stalinist terror doesn't deserve my respect.

Since then it has sold off many of its businesses and patents, while shutting down the camera manufacturing unit that made it famous.

It was the first home run by a Mets pitcher since Johan Santana hit one on July 6, 2010, while shutting out the Cincinnati Reds.