shutter
Example Sentences
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Parr, ever in favor of vivid specificity, even then saw an opportunity to release the shutter.
Campaign posters line the port city's almost-empty streets, dotted with shuttered shops, but the debate is the same as in many towns in the country of six million people that will vote on Tuesday.
From Barron's
It was still dark inside because the shutters had not been drawn back from the windows on the street.
From Literature
Citi wasn’t out of the woods even after the “bad bank” was shuttered.
In Tyre, many businesses are shuttered and homes empty.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
