shutter
Example Sentences
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Starting at around 9 a.m., the vans pull up outside, the shutters on the loading docks go up and drivers wheel the carts to their truck.
Washington previously operated a major drone base in neighbouring Niger, which has since shuttered after the ruling junta ordered US forces to depart the country.
From Barron's
Parr, ever in favor of vivid specificity, even then saw an opportunity to release the shutter.
Campaign posters line the port city's almost-empty streets, dotted with shuttered shops, but the debate is the same as in many towns in the country of six million people that will vote on Tuesday.
From Barron's
It was still dark inside because the shutters had not been drawn back from the windows on the street.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
