How to Use shutdown in a Sentence

shutdown

1 of 2 noun

• The shutdown caused by the fire was bad but things could have been worse.
  — Lawrence Specker | , al, 4 Apr. 2023
• The White House and Democrats avoid a shutdown in Biden's waning days.
  — Hans Nichols, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
• This is the option that Congress used just a few weeks ago to avoid a shutdown.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• The shutdown order, which lasts 45 days and can be renewed, was a break long in the making.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• The shutdown is just the latest in a string of closures by the nation’s larges retailer.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 19 July 2023
• The shutdown will take place in phases but will be completed by the end of August.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2023
• The company teased the shutdown last month and formally rolled it out with the 24.1.1 release.
  — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
• Existing Pro users will be able to play, free of charge, from now until the shutdown date.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
• The next three days, the shutdown was restricted to six districts, after which it was brought down to two.
  — Parth M.n., WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
• But the largest sign things were amiss: the sudden shutdown of the labor and delivery services unit.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 11 May 2024
• But this floor action in no way delays the Oct. 1 shutdown deadline.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• This in turn led to a five-day shutdown of the federal government.
  — Raymond Scheppach, The Conversation, 12 May 2023
• Iran is also in the midst of a three-day economic shutdown, which is set to end Wednesday evening.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2022
• The shutdowns will affect about 210 jobs, Bloomberg reports.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2024
• The measure, which passed the House Wednesday, will push the looming Dec. 16 shutdown deadline to midnight Dec. 23.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
• That means a shutdown could still hit the country – albeit a brief one with minor effects over the weekend.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
• But the 49ers have a shutdown ability that the Commanders haven’t seen since Dallas in Week 3, if at all.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2022
• The shutdown looms despite some bright business metrics for Axe-Men Throw House.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
• Brown said his business was down 40% because of the shutdown of salmon fishing last year, and the outlook this year isn’t much better.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• Paramedics’ response times have been creeping up in recent years, as have day-to-day shutdowns of some units on days when there aren’t enough staff.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 1 June 2024
• The shutdown of the bridge came on a day of multiple highway and roadway closures due to the rain, flooding and crashes on slick roads.
  — Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2023
• At least 21 federal shutdowns have occurred over the last five decades.
  — Elizabeth Beyer, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2024
• But only when the pandemic hit, and schools were forced into shutdown, did the rest of the world take notice of those deep inequities.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2022
• The votes send the legislation to President Biden to sign into law and avert a partial shutdown ahead of the deadline.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• Experts say a shutdown could severely hamper the flow of goods and raise shipping costs.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2024
• So lawmakers will need to get to work, or risk a partial shutdown on their hands in January.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• Officials suspect that heat from all the thruster action at docking caused the shutdown.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 29 June 2024
• The fact that there wasn’t a government shutdown could have gone some other way very easily.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• Then-President Trump and lawmakers reached a deal shortly after that to end the shutdown, the longest funding lapse in the United States.
  — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
• The Trump transition won't totally be put on hold if a shutdown happens at midnight Friday.
  — Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024

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shut down

2 of 2 verb

• The link to the form appears to have since been shut down.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2024
• But that doesn’t mean the Dawgs should shut down the Buckeyes.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
• But too cold for too long and cells start to shut down and die.
  — Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 22 July 2024
• Rides and games at the pier will shut down at 9 p.m. and the pier will close at 10 p.m., according to the park.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• As the Royals piled up hits, Lyles shut down the Red Sox.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• After his next start, he was shut down for the rest of the year due to injury.
  — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2024
• The crash shut down that portion of I-359 for nearly six hours.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2023
• The play shut down in March 2020 because of the pandemic.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2022
• The processing of green cards in the U.S. was mostly shut down.
  — Abha Bhattarai and Lauren Kaori Gurley, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2022
• Schools, in general, are shut down for the day as well.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2023
• Despite the change, the event was shut down just a few songs into the rapper's set.
  — Violet Ikonomova, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2024
• Pub in downtown has been shut down since the start of the pandemic.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
• Smith has said his business shouldn't have been shut down.
  — Garrett Moore, Arkansas Online, 20 Jan. 2023
• One of the lines had to be shut down in March of that year due to excessive moisture.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• If Trump was back in the White House, the agency would shut down the entire golf course to protect him.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2024
• Literally my first day on the movie was when the world shut down.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2024
• The earliest states close their polls at 6 p.m. EST, and the last polls in Alaska shut down at 9 p.m.
  — Joe Walsh, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• The service is set to shut down in the country on February 27th.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2024
• Police had a heavy presence outside the town hall and shut down the block to traffic.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Sep. 2024
• Bennett planned to shut down the shop for two weeks and hoped that many, if not all, of the baristas would be part of the new version of the project.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
• The Cruise shut down, rather than hand wringing and gnashing of teeth, has instead been more like a shrug.
  — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
• Leon Chenal and Cole Christiansen with the backside pursuit shuts down the fake punt.
  — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2024
• Scotland police were even called to the scene, the event shut down and parents said their children were in tears.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
• Part of the weight was lifted not long after the announcement that the team would be shutting down.
  — Greg Engle, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• Gay clubs in Uganda have been shut down, so the group of friends head to a local dance party instead.
  — James Longman, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Hope is no pushover, and is well-versed on the proper way to shut down some creep asking for a quid pro quo exchange.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
• Bill Russell singled up the middle for the go-ahead run and Mike Garman shut down the Phillies in the bottom of the inning for the win.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Did the country really shut down that eerie, silent spring?
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2024
• The website has been shut down by the Justice Department.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2022
• The Royal Mint recently shut down its business making coins for other countries.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025