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Example sentences for "shutters"

Lexicographically close words:
shutt; shutte; shutter; shuttered; shutterless; shutteth; shutting; shuttle; shuttlecock; shuttlecocks
  1. Outside, the wind banged the shutters against the wall, and whistled up the street and round the tin corners of the building, but inside the room was very silent.

  2. Leading from it was a large salon, upholstered in pale blue silk, and the old woman passed into this in order to open the sun-shutters and admit the light.

  3. At last we arrived at the Villa, a great, recently built house of the flamboyant, new art style, its green shutters closed, and the whole place silent and deserted in the burning sun.

  4. She saw, through the gaunt glitter of the trees, Klomp’s half-detached shutters hanging forlorn.

  5. Here the shutters were thrown back, and through the gaunt window a bluish grayness fell across the deeper dark.

  6. The front-shutters on the ground-floor to my wonder were closed.

  7. The shutters were not down, after some minutes delay, in she came; she started.

  8. The latter, with John at their head, were directed to close all the lower outside shutters of the building, and secure them within.

  9. After a decent pause, she walked around the encompassing veranda, examining the closed shutters of the French windows until she found one that yielded to her touch.

  10. Before the murderers withdrew, they had carefully closed the doors and window-shutters with the avowed purpose of cremating the entire family yet in the house.

  11. The balls crashed through the windows, tearing the wood casings to splinters and the shutters were completely shot away.

  12. She led the way to a darkened room, set the tray down, and pushed the green shutters away, revealing a wooden balcony with chairs and a green iron table.

  13. The shutters were closed, the doors still unopened.

  14. The shutters were opened when Lorne entered, to let in the spring twilight, and the servant pulled a chair into its proper relation with the room as she went out.

  15. The hotels, and the shops and stalls for eating and drinking, were the only places in which business was done; the public sentiment put universal shutters up, but the public appetite insisted upon excepting the means to carnival.

  16. An air of ceremonial festivity those fastened shutters gave; the sunny little town sat round them, important and significant, and nobody was ever known to forget that they were up, and go on a fool's errand.

  17. Betty stopped at once and looked around her, down the street and around the corner; at the shop shutters and door, but never once so high as the windows.

  18. Perhaps because their shutters were closed, our labour was lost.

  19. The sudden clack of shutters flung back against a wall brought us to earth with a jar.

  20. When the grocer put up his shutters two hectic hours later, he was a weary man.

  21. By now the shutters had been opened, and we were able to see about us.

  22. The uncaught shutters are slammed, the unpegged laundry is sent whirling, and, if the time is evening, the naked flames of lamps are blown out.

  23. Now, the weather had been mild during the afternoon, and the revolving shutters of the doorway were folded back to allow of the overheated hall being cooled.

  24. Folks were yet abed, and the shutters of the houses closed, as we went down the hill through the town.

  25. The shutters were all closed, and our landlady told us that on one occasion when a pretty dancer called La Reggiana was sleeping in the same room, the king had seen her in 'puris naturalibus'.

  26. This was too much for his modesty, and he had ordered the shutters to be closed, and closed they had remained, though this event was four years old.

  27. Cibot was sweeping the yard, the doorstep, and the pavement just as his neighbor was taking down the shutters and displaying his wares; for since Pons fell ill, La Cibot's work had fallen to her husband.

  28. At daybreak, when Remonencq had taken down his shutters and left his sister in charge of the shop, he came, after his wont of late, to inquire for his good friend Cibot.

  29. Picture galleries can only be lighted from above; Magus opens and closes his shutters himself; he is as careful of his pictures as of his daughter, his second idol.

  30. Mrs. Grossman's house was the only one I must pass; its shutters were closed, and the yard was empty.

  31. I sat by the window, the curtain of which was drawn apart, and the shutters unclosed.

  32. She opened her shutters and saw that the dawn was calm and fair.

  33. These iron shutters were so well balanced with hidden counter weights that the weakest child could move them up or down.

  34. Thus it came about that old Frick forgot to lock both the cupboard with the iron shutters and the door to the museum.

  35. In the little village there was great clapping of shutters and straining of clotheslines, distracted, bareheaded women ran about their dooryards, doors banged, everywhere was rush and flutter.

  36. She could see through the branches of the trees that the shutters were closed at the windows--all the windows at that side of the house.

  37. Julian held the shutters open and took a survey of the scene before him.

  38. How I'm ever going to keep that parlor dark I don't see; for he's got glass over the front door and on both sides of it, and no shutters to keep the sun out.

  39. Not only had the shades been drawn down, but the shutters had been closed, so that it was with difficulty I detected the slight, black-robed figure which lay face down among the cushions of a lounge.

  40. I thought she was gone, and let the sigh which had been labouring at my breast have vent, when I caught one last word whispered from the threshold: "Throw back the shutters and let in the light.

  41. Glints of yellow light streaking through the shutters showed that the lower storey had already burst into flame.

  42. The crowd looking on, especially the wives of those substantial citizens of the town who stood at their windows behind half-closed shutters and drawn blinds, stared down at the mayor with pitying concern.

  43. The Châlet looked singularly quiet and deserted, for all the shutters had been closed in order to shut out the midday heat.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shutters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.