shuts out
Example Sentences
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Triton Baseball shuts out Westlake 8-0 behind Mike Erspamer’s masterful 7k/1hit complete game in CIF-SS Playoffs 1st Rd!
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025
One view is that flow might be a state of highly focused concentration or hyperfocus that shuts out extraneous thoughts and other distractions to enable superior performance on a task.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024
By holding the news conference in Japan, it shuts out a host of U.S. outlets that did not make the trip to cover the summit of leaders from the top economies.
From Washington Times • May 19, 2023
“College can be a terrific bridge to opportunity,” Auguste told me by email, “but should not be a drawbridge that shuts out anyone who doesn’t manage to cross it.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2023
She looked like a little kid playing hide-and-seek, a kid who thinks that just because she shuts out the world, she can’t be seen.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
