shut-ins

plural of shut-in

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shut-ins
Noun
  • Many of us became hermits when COVID-19 ravaged our sense of normalcy, and some still haven’t quite gotten back into the swing of in-person dating.
    Essence, Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The practice of self-flagellation, Norman Cohn informs us, was seemingly first adopted by monastic hermits in the eleventh century.
    Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Here, in a former metal yard turned residential drug rehabilitation center just outside of town, the 40-year-old arrived after years of addiction that began around the time opioid pain pills flooded into the hardscrabble region’s mountains and valleys.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The early-morning thunderstorms that rumbled across the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys Tuesday also produced nearly 10,000 dry lightning strikes, sparking wildfires from the Mother Lode to the grasslands of eastern Sacramento County.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over time, the powerful current carved out massive gorges and canyons, including the Grand Canyon of the Nujiang.
    Lauren Liebhaber September 2, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Captured in the canyons of Arizona, the image reveals how flickering light dances across textured stone, creating fleeting moments of beauty only found in the shadows.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Over time, the powerful current carved out massive gorges and canyons, including the Grand Canyon of the Nujiang.
    Lauren Liebhaber September 2, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The journey runs the entire length of Australia from south to north, covering 1,851 miles and traversing dramatic gorges and curious rock formations of the ancient mountains of the Flinders Ranges.
    Alesandra Dubin, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, the ravines have become junkyards, where home appliances, grocery carts, bald tires, grass clippings and autumn leaves have been dumped.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The tracks led north and east now, angling and twisting through the timber, across ravines and small draws, avoiding parks and passes, heading generally into the wind.
    Fred C. Mercer, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Israel's devastating attack on Gaza, which has killed more than 62,000 Palestinians, including over 18,000 children, is exposing deep ideological fissures on the American Right.
    Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Vegetation also can conceal deep fissures and cracks.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Shut-ins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shut-ins. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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