closed-down
Example Sentences
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He began his political career as a mayor in Western Pennsylvania steel country, with closed-down steel mills and boarded-up Main Streets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
In prisons, Delaney said, the whitelist approach leads to “a very closed-down version of the internet.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2025
The city centre has come in for criticism recently for its empty buildings, closed-down shops and an air of neglect.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2023
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Economy Minister Robert Habeck will attend the event, a briefing on where the new chip factory will be built - on the site of a closed-down coal plant.
From Reuters • Feb. 1, 2023
On the other side was a closed-down gas station, a tattered billboard for a 1990s movie, and one open business, which was the source of the neon light and the good smell.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
