How to Use shut up in a Sentence

shut up

verb

• But that man turned around, shut up and strapped on his mask.
  — Alex Connor, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
• The dad in me needed to shut up and support his kid on the slow walk to the car.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2018
• The colonel told it to shut up, and pushed himself from the table.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• Joe Biden telling trump to shut up is the highlight of my week.
  — Sonia Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2020
• The challenge is to learn to use with freedom the cage we’re shut up in.
  — Elena Ferrante, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• The more men told her to sit down and shut up, the less willing Chaney was to do it.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
• The point is to get women of color to sit down and shut up.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 July 2019
• My Vinyl Weighs a Ton Sit down shut up slip me out of my sleeve.
  — David Roderick, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Oct. 2017
• May the pueblo be ready to shut up the Eastside politico once and for all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2023
• At least some Jets fans wish Mr. Rodgers would just shut up and play.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• The same goes for the musical score, which rarely shuts up.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 11 Oct. 2024
• Hey, Huskers, put a corncob in your pie hole and shut up.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• Listen, at some point teams just have to shut up and play.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2018
• His colleagues would tell him to shut up and gain some weight.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• That may not shut up the fans, at least the ones in Los Angeles and New York.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• The bastards had shut up shop and gone off to chase women.
  — Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• The City Council told us to shut up and trust it with our future.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
• They’ve been told by the veterans, 'Hey, shut up and play a role.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2020
• Back in the old days with a more feisty group of challengers, he would’ve been told to shut up and sit down.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
• The best way to shut up the sources is to win lots of games, not declare martial law on them.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Your neighbors won’t be banging on the walls telling you to shut up.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
• Time to quit talking about awards won or lost and put up or shut up.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2022
• But the Cougars will need to win plenty of games this season to shut up any doubters.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
• Kellen Moore was in his bag against the Bucs, which means his critics should shut up for a week.
  — Dallas News, 16 Jan. 2023
• Church members are trained at that point to shut up and raise our hands and go along with it.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
• On any other night, that would have been the story and the thing Green could not shut up about.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• And forgive me, Zooey, but my response to that was say it once and shut up.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• Dak Prescott shut up all his critics – at least for one week.
  — Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2023
• They were supposed to shut up and like it, to be central to a man’s life and to his success.
  — The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
• The latter debate went off the rails, largely because of Trump’s interruptions, to the point where Biden told him to shut up.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024