How to Use shutdown in a Sentence

shutdown

1 of 2 noun

• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The fact that there wasn’t a government shutdown could have gone some other way very easily.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• Yet, twin government shutdown deadlines in March are just weeks away.
  — Simon Moore, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Some see it as the path of least resistance to move forward and get the House back to work, with a deadline fast approaching to avoid a government shutdown.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2023
• In April, the company announced the shutdown of its dwindling DVD-by-mail business after 25 years.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 17 Aug. 2023
• One less thing to worry about this holiday season: The threat of a government shutdown.
  — Alex Thomas, arkansasonline.com, 19 Nov. 2023
• The shutdown or lockdown of a single site may eliminate all access to the only extant source for a major movie.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
• The House passed the bill on Thursday largely along party lines, the first of 12 spending bills Congress must approve to avoid a government shutdown.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• Meanwhile, nearly all tourist regions in the world have fully recovered since the shutdown.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
• But the project has gone through at least five writers, two directors and one shutdown six weeks before production.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
• But Clinton vetoed the legislation, which led to a shutdown.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2023
• So, unless the gods curse Hollywood with an eight-month shutdown, this will be the final story on date adjustments.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
• The company announced the shutdown of the DVD-by-mail business Tuesday ahead of its first-quarter 2023 earnings report.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
• December 18 isn't just the date for the hosting shutdown, but also the deadline for downloads or refund requests.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
• Even after the lockdowns ended, the lodging sector has battled to recover from the shutdowns.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• In past shutdown fights, that has meant conservatives denying a time agreement that could expedite the process.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2023
• That could force Congress to take up another stopgap funding bill and trigger the same fights that brought the federal government to the brink of a shutdown over the weekend.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• And there isn’t much time for the two to get to know each other before the White House and Congress must come to an agreement on federal spending or face a government shutdown.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• Kotaku also notes that GameStop will not pay its employees during the shutdown, though some may be able to use personal time off.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2023
• The shutdown allows contractors to continue the replacement of large pieces of an old storm drain system that was overwhelmed by March rains.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
• According to The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the news, the cast and crew were being notified of the shutdown Friday.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 6 May 2023

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shut down

2 of 2 verb

• As the Royals piled up hits, Lyles shut down the Red Sox.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• The crash shut down that portion of I-359 for nearly six hours.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 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
• The service is set to shut down in the country on February 27th.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 10 Jan. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The show wasn’t even postponed when the pandemic shut down Hollywood in 2020.
  — Samantha Chery, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• The company said the division that did the work for Purdue, called Rosetta, has been shut down for a decade.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• On defense, except for one long touchdown pass on a fourth-down play, the Trojans shut down the Tigers' offense for the game.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2023
• The rockets then shut down and the unpowered missile descends to its target.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
• Seventh Avenue will be shut down between 42nd and 48th streets, and side streets will also be closed from Sixth to Eighth avenues.
  — Cbs New York Team, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
• Their kids go to a private school – which unlike Kansas City’s public schools – did not shut down the day of the parade and rally.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
• Last week, health inspectors did not shut down any restaurants in the Sacramento area.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 3 Apr. 2024
• But Mint is shutting down, and Mint was an excellent, simple way to track your money.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2023
• Reckoning Part One, the seventh entry in the Tom Cruise-starring stunt-heavy action franchise, when the world shut down.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• It's been a few months since Reddit shut down the vast majority of third-party clients, and the protests have mostly died down.
  — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
• Across the world, Hollywood tentpoles are shutting down.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2023
• As of late Monday morning, a Marathon station about a mile down the road was again dispensing fuel, but the 7-Eleven’s pumps remained shut down.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
• White House spokesperson Ian Sams slammed the timing of the hearing just two days before the government could shut down if no funding deal is reached.
  — Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Angry parents demanded refunds from the organizers of the event, and even called the police; the event was shut down before the day was done.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• On Sunday, the 110 shuts down from Lincoln Heights to Pasadena for seven miles of car-free lanes open to all forms of active transportation.
  — Kamren Curiel, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• The nightclub was renamed the Latin Quarter and eventually shut down in the 1950s before reopening as the Hard Rock.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2024
• The judge said the attorney general’s office could not seek to entirely shut down the NRA.
  — ABC News, 8 Jan. 2024
• The collision shut down all lanes of the westbound freeway for the investigation.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
• Longtime customers Pam and Jeff LeBlanc added new food items to the original menu and renovated, but once again shut down.
  — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 16 Feb. 2024
• The heavy rains also prompted South Florida's high-speed commuter rail service to shut down.
  — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• The enclave’s sole power plant shut down Wednesday afternoon for want of fuel.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024