shut up
verb
shut up; shutting up; shuts up
: to cause (a person) to stop talking
: to cease writing or speaking
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Examples of shut up in a Sentence
you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up
nothing I said would shut them up
Recent Examples on the Web
Those rewards are less about shutting up and playing the hits than understanding that the relationship to the audience is slightly different.
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2025
Honestly, my plan coming in was to shut up, stay under the radar.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
In other words, Anti-SLAPP laws prevent bad people from misusing the courts to shut up others who have done nothing more than lawfully express themselves.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
But the film cranks it to 10 when the actors shut up and the Crums focus on a warped visual vocabulary: analog video, gruesome special effects, taunting puppets and, most especially, Daryll Arellano’s skin-pinching sound.
—Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2025
Honestly, my plan coming in was to shut up, stay under the radar.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
In other words, Anti-SLAPP laws prevent bad people from misusing the courts to shut up others who have done nothing more than lawfully express themselves.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
But the film cranks it to 10 when the actors shut up and the Crums focus on a warped visual vocabulary: analog video, gruesome special effects, taunting puppets and, most especially, Daryll Arellano’s skin-pinching sound.
—Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Shut up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shut%20up. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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