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Example Sentences
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The LNG crunch threatens wealthy nations with a prolonged wave of energy-driven inflation, while simultaneously forcing fragile emerging economies to ration fuel and shutter factory floors.
Plus-size retail chain Torrid is shuttering nearly a third of its stores as it grapples with sliding sales.
From Los Angeles Times
Businesses are shuttered; there is little to buy or sell.
From Salon
The fabric stores and cafes were shuttered, with a silence that settled “like a heavy blanket.”
From Los Angeles Times
Airline stocks were rising even as New York’s LaGuardia Airport shuttered following a deadly collision.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
