closed-up
Example Sentences
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When the last bit of business was done, the parking lot emptied and the Sons drove home, past a closed-up downtown and fields that stretched quietly to the mountains.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024
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
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
“Thank you,” I say with a closed-up throat.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
