Shut up

//ʃʌt ʌp//

"Shut up" in a Sentence (19 examples)

The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.

The engineer had shut the locomotive up in the shed for twenty years.

'You know the doctor's ways, sir,' replied Poole, 'and how he shuts himself up. Well, he's shut up again in the cabinet; and I don't like it, sir—I wish I may die if I like it. Mr. Utterson, sir, I'm afraid.'

"Oh no, snow!" whined Falcon Housebird to her mistress, Queeny Diamond-Heart. I'll be shut up at your house! At your mercy! With no way to get away!"

You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up?

He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up.

She told us earlier that none of what you just said was true, so shut up!

This is a quote from the letter: "Went to the Senate yesterday and you should have seen the carrying on they did. I could hardly get them to shut up so I could speak, and they did the same thing after I had finished. Some said the Senate never did carry on so over any president or anybody else."

Shut up and sleep with me / Come on, why don't you sleep with me?

He really doesn't know when to shut up and leave it to those at the heart of the negotiations, who fully understand and appreciate all the nuances, to try and hammer out a deal.

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I just heard that your wife was trying to shut you up for the insurance money.

Shepard: Why were they threatening you? Who do they work for? Dr. Chloe Michel: They work for Fist. They wanted to shut me up, keep me from telling Garrus about the quarian.

2010. Jem (And Sam). Ferdinand Mount. She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold.

1865. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator, Volume 17. Pg. 75. Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing.

1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166. Beaudeck is a very shut-up place.

Shut up! We're sick of your whining!

I got accepted to Yale! —Shut up, really? That's awesome!

No, I know what home-school is, I'm not retarded! So you've actually never been to a real school before? Shut up! Shut up!

Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA. Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA! Jen: It means "personal assistant". Moss: Thank you. Right, OK. What does that actually involve?

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