Sentence examples for shut away from high-quality English sources.

• This is the antithesis of being shut away in a massage therapy room.

• It seems reckless to shut away half the country's talent because it happens to be female.

• For many the thought of being shut away in their homes has felt more like being locked up.

• To me it seems as though the authorities just wanted to hurry things up so the whole issue could be shut away and forgotten about."

• Or it could choose to leave them shut away in reservations with minimal rights, like an apartheid state.

• It was the 1960’s and a time when disabled people were institutionalised, shut away and not spoken about.

• Over 2,100 dissidents are shut away, their ranks swollen since the suppression in 2007 of monk-led protests.

• Sufferers are shut away in family homes with unskilled helpers, typically migrant women from the countryside.

Use shut away in a sentence.

• Qatar foolishly imagines that un-Islamic practices can be shut away in gated communities like embassies, he says.

• But, realizing that these men feared being shut away, like victims of leprosy, he began studying “the uses and misuses of quarantine.”

• He imagines a plutocracy shut away “in gated communities or in elite cities, perhaps guarded by autonomous military robots and drones.”

• It meant, to some young men, that while their own sisters had to be shut away from the sinful world, white Dutch women could be treated like whores.

• SINCE CHINA locked down the city of Wuhan on January 23rd, over a third of the world’s population has at one time or another been shut away at home.

• Hundreds of thousands of Muslims whom the Communist Party deems too religious are thought to have been shut away in the camps, which the official lauded for discouraging terrorism.

• Gazans have been shut away in their fetid, overcrowded strip, oppressed by both Hamas, whose rule has been harsh, and Israel, which has punished them for harbouring what it deems to be a terrorist regime.

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Jane enters the wealthy House of Rochester as a governess, and finds it to be in possession of a wandering secret, a secret that insists on its telling, a secret in the form of a woman, dark and furious, and shut away.

shut away sentence examples

• Since his death on the 7th July 2006, Syd Barrett lives on freeze-framed, still young and a striking lost soul of the 1960s whose brief moment of creativity outshines those long years of solitude shut away in a terraced house in his home town of Cambridge.

• Six years after his death (7th July 2006) Syd Barrett lives on freeze framed, still young and a striking lost soul of the sixties whose brief moment of creativity outshines those long years of solitude shut away in a terraced house in his home town of Cambridge.

• Along about this time, our friends Bobbie and Spencer Klaw were at home one Saturday night in their modest brownstone on Charlton Street with three of their four daughters and Bob Schultz, a young son-in-law, when they heard frantic sustained barking arising from the basement just below, from Jessie, a Lab puppy shut away there for house-training.

• She was the great philosopher of love and la vie sexuelle, and, paradoxically, nowhere more so than in the slim novel in which she bids fond farewell to fleshly pleasures and romantic adventures – "I have paid for my folly, shut away the heady young wine that intoxicated me, and folded up my big, floating heart" – in favour of an equally voluptuous pantheism.