shut the door

1. see close the door.

Example Sentences

Cusnir shut the door behind her, sat on her bed, closed her eyes and imagined that she held him in her arms, she recalled.

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In trying to shut the door on race-conscious affirmative action, he may have quietly left another affirmative action door wide open.

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I went into my office, shut the door, sat at my desk and said to myself, “Remember this feeling because it’s never going to happen again.”

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I have a back room in my house where I can shut the door and I can play piano or meditate or I can look at my baseball cards or just listen to the birds chirp.

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No-one from the prison helped us - they shut the door on us and said we couldn't go out.'

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