How to Use shutter in a Sentence

shutter

1 of 2 noun

• The instant the shutter clicked, the bull charged the sound.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2022
• Start with a shutter speed of around 10 seconds to get the tail.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2023
• Instead, tap the white shutter button and drag it to the right.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 26 Apr. 2022
• Builders can flip the bed to wake Mirabel up, spin the chimney to change the weather, and twist the shutters.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024
• The shutter can’t keep up with his brisk motion, and his form blurs at the edges.
  — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• To use it on iPhones, swipe left on the shutter button in the Camera app.
  — William Neff, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• Open the Camera app, make sure the Live Photo mode is on, and press the shutter.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022
• The time scale of the shutter or the strobe must match the time scale of motion of the object – if not, the image will be blurred.
  — Niranjan Shivaram, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• Twist the lens barrel to turn it on, frame your shot, hit the shutter button, and voilà.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• And the sounds – the clang of the metal shutter, the ticking of the drive clock and the clacking of the chains add deeply to the experience.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2022
• Tap the photo shutter button at the bottom of the screen to finish.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2022
• Mom, quick with the shutter, captures her giggling son at the apex of his flight.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2023
• This one feels like a call to arms, soundtracked by shutter clicks.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
• To compensate for that, the shutter must stay open longer.
  — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
• To enable burst mode on iPhones XS and newer, slide the shutter button to the left.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 19 Mar. 2024
• But the most important thing about the A9 III is its new shutter.
  — Becca Farsace, The Verge, 7 Nov. 2023
• For more than seven decades, the click of a camera shutter was the soundtrack to Dorothy Bohm’s life.
  — Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• With a slow blink of the shutter, the scene was transferred to glass, volatile nitrate film or acetate.
  — Janine Latus, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022
• In the adorable shot, the three kids wear matching red, white and blue shutter sunglasses.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2022
• With the use of a slow shutter speed, Tarantino’s vision of his great-aunt is stilted, fuzzy.
  — David Pisonero Tarantino, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2023
• Center the document in the viewfinder and press the shutter button.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 27 Oct. 2022
• Even Google was forced to shutter teams, putting employees out of work.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2023
• In the front row, Howard hitched up his trouser cuff, squeezed the shutter bulb for six seconds and relaxed his grip.
  — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2023
• In the end, there was the click of a camera’s shutter and the result was a simple portrait of a gray-haired woman in pleats and woolens.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• As he was led past the media, the snapping sound of camera shutters erupted.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• When closed, the slats of shutters and blinds (often made from wood, vinyl, or metal) can also block the sun's rays.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Feb. 2024
• The 6 and 6 Pro can do a convincing impression of both effects with just one press of the shutter.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 1 Apr. 2023
• That painful process would ramp up the risk of a recession that would cost jobs and shutter businesses.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2022
• Along the way, peep streets lined with white clapboard cottages with shutters in tell-tale shades of pastel.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2023
• The bedroom, shown here, got an entirely pink treatment, from the lacquered walls to the shutters to the bedframe.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 18 July 2023

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shutter

2 of 2 verb

• They locked the doors and shuttered the windows.
• They declared bankruptcy and shuttered the store.
• That’s when then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel shuttered six of the 12 city-run clinics.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2023
• The last report from 1909, when the school closed, listed bad health as the reason for shuttering.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
• Soon, towers will be shuttered as winter clouds, fog and snow come to the mountains.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
• The 10 stations that could be shuttered have yet to be decided.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• My plan is to let the domain expire in a few months and then shutter the site completely in 2024.
  — Christopher Null, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• The pier has been shuttered since October, when it was damaged by high surf.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
• The restaurant is still in its early days; good restaurants shutter for reasons that are no fault of their own.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
• The pier’s old Ruby’s Diner shuttered during the pandemic, and those hand pies were a long time ago.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
• The historic landmark, built during the silent era, has been dark since movie theaters across the country shuttered in March 2020.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2023
• The latest scores, officials said, reflect more of the impact of the disruptions from the virus that shuttered schools across the country.
  — Cheyenne Mumphrey, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2023
• Not even a 2011 lightning strike and fire could shutter the Wanamaker Feed & Seed.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
• Police raided the bakery the previous week and shuttered it for three days.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
• The play takes place in the early 1600s; theaters are shuttered because of the plague and six of Shakespeare’s leading characters are out of work.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• And the Rafah crossing, on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, is also shuttered.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
• And because the pandemic shuttered the courts, there were no appearances in her case for more than two years.
  — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2024
• The German luxury brand isn’t alone in seeking to shutter its stores in London.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024
• PizzaPlex, the pizzeria that brought Neapolitan-style pizza to southwest Detroit, will shutter at the end of this month.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2023
• For the first time, a number of hotels that used to shutter as soon as summer ended are pushing back closures.
  — Town & Country, 14 Dec. 2022
• At least one long-running business expects to be shuttered for a year due to damage sustained from the water used to contain the flames.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2024
• And a whole avenue to see stand-up comedy is shuttered for the foreseeable future.
  — Vulture, 5 May 2023
• Just as Sumner shuttered the business that was the cornerstone of his father’s legacy, Shari may be poised to do the same thing.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• After being shuttered for years, clam diggers hit Ninilchik area beaches for a four-day window to dig.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• Culkin had just been tapped by SNL for the season’s penultimate episode, one of many productions that would be shuttered a few days later.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
• Though the restaurant shuttered in 2020 due to pressures from the pandemic, her cooking lives on in Sohn-Mat, her book written with food writer Tien Nguyen.
  — Genevieve Yam, Bon Appétit, 17 Oct. 2023
• The bar was forced to shutter its doors in early 2022, but fortunately, Angel’s Share has risen like a phoenix, taking on new life in the form of a tiny pop-up speakeasy in the Hotel Eventi.
  — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Joining the soup kitchen’s six-days-a-week line are merchants who shuttered their shops or lost their life savings during the pandemic and have yet to recover.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
• One of Las Vegas’ longest-standing Strip casinos is shuttering its doors for good.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
• Made Here also includes a number of restaurants that have shuttered, both prior to and during the book’s production.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024