How to Use shutdown in a Sentence

shutdown

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

Last Updated: 6 May 2024