Examples of 'was shut up' in a sentence

Meaning of "was shut up"

was shut up: stopped from speaking or expressing an opinion, often forcefully or abruptly. This phrase is used to describe a situation where someone is silenced or prevented from talking further

How to use "was shut up" in a sentence

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was shut up
Was shut up in the egg on rice cutlet on board.
This was not the garden which was shut up.
Rapunzel was shut up in a tall tower with no doors.
The next morning the house was shut up.
John was shut up in the last house.
Almost everything here was shut up too.
He was shut up now and then.
The place was shut up.
I was shut up in a room where there is a ghost till after dark.
Ming rang here looking for you because the shop was shut up.
I was shut up in my room.
You thought it was so sad that your beloved Tweety was shut up in a cage.
I was shut up so long.
Within ten days of this meeting the Hotel de la Baudraye was shut up.
I was shut up in a hospital and we did not see each other for several years.

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The regiment was shut up in Bhurtee.
He was shut up in solitary confinement in the Chateau.
Its head I advise to him that it was shut up.
All you had to do was shut up and put that other method into practice.
What would you do if the choice was shut up or die?
Pellisson was shut up with a Basque who used to play to him on the musette.
The days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years.
Face was shut up in my heart, and with it a little inaudible cry of love.
As for Captain Speedy, he was shut up in his cabin under lock and.
I was shut up in myself … isolated when I was in Italy.
Mr de Saint-Hilaire's mad brother was shut up there till he died.
And the entrance was shut up with a great stone, which sometimes had a monumental inscription.
Accordingly, one was accepted, one was only rebuked, and one was shut up in prison.
Dost thou think that I was shut up there for such a long time as a favour.
In the original story, Rapunzel was 12 when she was shut up in the tower.
Do you think that I was shut up there for such a long time as a favor?
No, I am pretty sure it was shut up.
I was shut up once, you know.
No. let me be with people. I was shut up so long.
Well, if it was shut up and spread them, he got it loud and clear.
A third-century Christian martyr, Saint Barbara was shut up in a tower and later de [ + ].
Lodbrog was shut up in a dungeon, filled, say the chroniclers, with vipers and venomous serpents.
Mr. Darcy called, and was shut up with him several hours.
Yes it was shut up Julian why?
All I had to do was shut up and listen . - Yeah.
All you had to do was shut up and let me launch my E.R. P.

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