shut up
verb
shut up; shutting up; shuts up
: to cause (a person) to stop talking
: to cease writing or speaking
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
Later, George Pendle reveals how one of Africa’s richest men did the impossible—made Trump shut up.
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Air Mail, 7 June 2025
Table of the Elements, the influential U.S. label that shut up shop in 2011, will relaunch this year as a curatorial platform, interdisciplinary production organization, and publishing house.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
Large companies and small and dirty riverside businesses shut up shop, leaving scrub and wasteland.
—Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Ventura responded the next day by resharing a post from the culture website Shade Room showing a screenshot of rapper Playboi Carti telling Ye to shut up.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC news, 10 May 2025
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Air Mail, 7 June 2025
Table of the Elements, the influential U.S. label that shut up shop in 2011, will relaunch this year as a curatorial platform, interdisciplinary production organization, and publishing house.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
Large companies and small and dirty riverside businesses shut up shop, leaving scrub and wasteland.
—Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Ventura responded the next day by resharing a post from the culture website Shade Room showing a screenshot of rapper Playboi Carti telling Ye to shut up.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC news, 10 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for shut up
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“Shut up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shut%20up. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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