closed-up
Example Sentences
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Across from a closed-up snack cart, I knelt until the cold concrete prickled my knees.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2023
We’ve fried eggs on the sidewalk since my kids can remember, baked cookies and cakes on the dashboards of our closed-up summer cars.
From Scientific American • Nov. 11, 2021
“I’ve seen this town when it was struggling, when Palm Canyon Drive was T-shirt and sunglass shops and closed-up storefronts,” Paonessa said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2018
An office occupies each of the building’s three wings, and in each wing the ceiling has a closed-up slit that once allowed for “transit” observations - tracking the passage of celestial bodies across the sky.
From Washington Times • Nov. 13, 2017
The house already had a closed-up feeling to it, as if it had been empty for days, not just a matter of hours.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
