How to Use close up shop in a Sentence

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• When the show ends, Smith said the partners will close up shop and travel.
  — Conrad Swanson, The Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2020
• Why the bookstore is last to close up shop may be the real mystery.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 July 2021
• First, in many cases, the choice for managers is to pay ransom or to close up shop.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• That means Burger King can't just snap its fingers and close up shop.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
• And across the street, the staff at the local mini mart on Sollers Point Road have sandbags at the ready to barricade the glass doors and close up shop.
  — Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2022
• Others, lacking the space to spread out safely, have had to close up shop early.
  — Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2021
• For one of the most fearsome beasts to ever walk the earth, the Tyrannosaurus rex certainly gets made fun of a lot: Why did the T. rex have to close up shop?
  — Jonathan Shipley, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
• Business owners weren’t sure if the building would be shut down, forcing them to close up shop or move.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2023
• Business owners weren’t sure if the building would be shut down, forcing them to close up shop or move.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2023
• Last week the Taliban confirmed that all beauty salons in the country must close up shop in one month.
  — Malaina Kapoor, WSJ, 10 July 2023
• Unless new revenue sources are found, some of the smaller First 5 agencies may close up shop.
  — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• But after being open for just four months, in March of 2020, the pandemic forced Mina’s to close up shop.
  — Jessie Heyman, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2021
• Others simply want to close up shop and use their agency as an ATM until the time comes to retire.
  — Drew McLellan, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• The whole experience was and is a lesson in the fragility of it all, how quickly a body can simply close up shop.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• Jade Roper Tolbert might be ready to close up shop in the baby department.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 7 Sep. 2020
• There are three stages set up throughout the event, with the two smaller stages scheduled to close up shop each night right as the day’s headliner is going on.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Nov. 2021
• The crypto crash could be another drag on the chip market, as crypto miners close up shop.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 15 July 2022
• That’s when the family patriarch decided to close up shop for a day.
  — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2020
• The venture was short-lived, and Golla decided to close up shop after six months and join the team of one of her direct competitors, Winc.
  — Laurel Donnellan, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• As of Thursday, more Twin Cities museums will close up shop for the foreseeable future.
  — Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
• Our judiciary has decided to close up shop, because of the attempt to enter by the Sadrists.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2022
• When mandated to close up shop, many didn’t have an outlet or following to sell their products.
  — Jenny Townsend, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022
• TikTok might be scaling back its live e-commerce ambitions, but Amazon isn’t ready to close up shop.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 7 July 2022
• Some may be able to cut expenses to break even and others may be rescued by private equity roll-ups, but many will close up shop.
  — Bob Kocher, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
• The hotel industry is warning of thousands of closures, and tens of thousands of small businesses are weighing whether to close up shop for good.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
• While the channel offered to let the show continue through the midterm elections and to the end of November, the staff and Smith decided to close up shop immediately.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
• Shipping and production costs have risen in recent years, Day said, a key factor behind his decision to close up shop.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2022
• Leaders announced plans to close up shop more than a year ago, but those efforts have been delayed amid a growing homelessness crisis.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2024
• As the population declines, that leaves fewer customers for businesses, so some start to close up shop.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2021
• Mark Kelly Washington is ready to close up shop for the holidays, and so far there’s no deal for more weapons for Israel and Ukraine with changes to border security.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024