Examples of shut up in a Sentence

you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up nothing I said would shut them up

Recent Examples on the Web Courts are the ultimate place to put up or shut up. — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2022 Oh, shut up and put on your big boy panties, Romaine. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2021 Now, Terry McAuliffe has a comeback for Gramm and all parents who think like him — shut up and fall into line. — The Editors, National Review, 1 Oct. 2021 The senior soldier, without turning around, tells him to shut up. — Keith Ridgway, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2022 Grohl could be heard telling him to shut up, according to news accounts of the show. — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2022 Not just remembered it in my mind — my body wouldn’t shut up about it. — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2022 Twenty years ago, dotcom evangelists wouldn't shut up about the web as a land of milk and honey, an egalitarian Eden. — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022 The public schools, exhibiting a sense of institutional entitlement not at all alien to the clergy, want parents and taxpayers to pay up and shut up, to put their money where the mouths aren’t. — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022 See More

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