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• Not wishing to disturb the animal he was trying to photograph, he held his indrawn breath until the shutter was released.From the entry indrawn
• The city has reclaimed its riverfront, transforming it from shuttered industrial husks into commercial-and-residential mixed-use real estate with substantial market value.From the entry riverfront
• The cafés selling baklava and tulumba on Sweet Corner are shuttered and padlocked.2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 149. From the entry tulumba
• "Never trust anything you read online," Tanya said, pushing up her shutter shades.2012, Alec Nevala-Lee, The Icon Thief, Signet, →ISBN. From the entry shutter shades
• Just take your old mechanical camera, point it skyward, and leave the shutter open.2001, Eric DeBolt, “Happy Trails”, in Astronomy, volume 29, number 7, page 74. From the entry star trail
• This may be a situation when the continuous-shot shutter mode is of most usable.1996 April 29, Leslie, “攝影的互動關係?”, in tw.bbs.rec.photo (Usenet), retrieved 19 May 2022. From the entry shutter chance
• Faster motor drive allows you to prepare for the next shutter chance.1995 August 26, na...@ibm.net, “Motor drive vs. power winder”, in rec.photo.help (Usenet), retrieved 19 May 2022. From the entry shutter chance
• It lets you set the lens opening, while it sets the shutter speed automatically.1978 October, “One of these cameras was made just for you”, in Penthouse, retrieved 25 Feb 2014, page 22. From the entry aperture priority
• She's all the time spying in that alley behind her shutters.”1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 7, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing)…. From the entry peace bond
• God knows how many babushki standing behind the shutters of their cottages had seen her.1960, Harrison E[vans] Salisbury, To Moscow and Beyond: A Reporter’s Narrative, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 64. From the entry babushki
• Yet for most of the year the bungalows were empty, with doors padlocked and windows shuttered.1960, Shirley L[ease] Arora, What Then, Raman?, Chicago, I.L.: Follett Publishing Company, page 16. From the entry merkin
• As I stood there someone stepped crunchingly on the gravel path before the shuttered windows.1931, Hugh Walpole, Above the Dark Tumult, page 46. From the entry crunchingly
• It's the principle of the pneumatic instantaneous shutter for a camera lens.1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright…. From the entry instantaneous
• This will slow down the shutter speed even further to get silkier, smoothier (that's a word!) water motion.2017, Gary L. Friedman, The Friedman Archives Guide to the Sony RX-10 IV. From the entry silky
• Features such as shutters, eave brackets, transoms, a wraparound porch, and a pergola all help establish the style of this home.2006 February, Jill Kirchner Simpson, “Building a Modular Home”, in Country Living, volume 29, number 2, page 51. From the entry eave
• The polarization system has a refreshing rate that is twice the refreshing rate of the corresponding shutter system.2003, John Wang, Data Mining: Opportunities and Challenges, page 74. From the entry refreshing
• Then he rolled down the wooden blinds inside, opened the door and pulled halfway down the metal rolldown shutter outside.1992, Aras Ören, Please, no police. From the entry rolldown
• Wood-finished insulative shutters set as bifolds at the window.1989, Karla J. Nielson, Window Treatments, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry bifold
• A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment.1950 June, “New Restaurant and Buffet Cars, G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 415. From the entry hatch
• Zarem has devised the fastest camera shutter on record.1948 May 16, “Fastest Shutter; Hundred Million Film Exposures A Second Now Possible”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry hundred million
• The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed, and provisions were brought in from the outhouses.1907, A. E. W. Mason, The Broken Road. From the entry loophole
• Britain should not “pull the shutters down” on China, as it would be counterproductive to the national interest, the foreign secretary has told the Guardian.2023 April 18, Pippa Crerar, “UK should not ‘pull the shutters down’ on China, says James Cleverly”, in The Guardian. From the entry pull the shutters down
• In the old Portuguese areas there were cobbled streets, yellow churches with green shutters, pink and white civic buildings in the Pombaline style.2019 December 31, Joanna Kavenna, “Notes from an author: Joanna Kavenna on Macau”, in National Geographic, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry São Lourenço
• The decor is minimal but luxurious, each room features plastered walls and floor-to-ceiling windows fitted with slatted wooden shutters, making the space extremely ’grammable.2015 June 9, Rosie Fitzmaurice, “Hotel of the week: Casa Pueblo, Tulum”, in Evening Standard. From the entry 'grammable
• Far to the south, another composite form of wall, using shuttering, was 'bungaroosh', used particularly in Regency Brighton and neighbouring areas on the south coast.2012, Matthew Slocombe, Traditional Building Materials, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry bungaroosh
• Irritated by my feeling of non-specific mardiness, I force myself out of bed, stretching flamboyantly as I walk over to open the shutters.2006, Laura Hird, Hope And Other Stories, page 36. From the entry mardiness
• Most were the new shutter boxes installed by the Grand Trunk Company, but old-fashioned arm semaphores and even signal flags were still well in evidence.2004 September 25, Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (A Discworld Novel; 33), London: Doubleday, →ISBN; republished London: Corgi Books…. From the entry semaphore
• Especially when all the little breakfasteries, the delis and donuteries and muffineries, are rattling up their shutters and putting on the coffee to brew.2004, Henry Shukman, “Road Movie”, in Darien Dogs, Vintage, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry donutery
• The Boo Daddy, it was said, would creep into your house late at night if your shutters weren’t painted a certain prophylactic shade of blue.2000, Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener, →ISBN, page 322. From the entry boo daddy
• Smooth facets of buildings have given way to cobbly insides of concrete blasted apart, all the endless-pebbled rococo just behind the shuttering.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 3: In the Zone, page 373. From the entry concrete
• While the estate was nearly undamaged, Historic Biltmore Village outside the grounds suffered catastrophic flooding from the Swannanoa and French Broad rivers, shuttering its stores and restaurants.2025 June 26, Marnie Hunter, “‘These mountains are still here.’ Asheville is ready for your visit”, in CNN, archived from the original on…. From the entry Biltmore Village
• The country’s main airport in Port-au-Prince has been closed periodically and was shuttered again on Tuesday after gunfire hit a commercial passenger airplane flying in from the US.2024 November 17, Stephen Starr, “Haitian immigrants flee Springfield, Ohio, in droves after Trump election win”, in The Guardian. From the entry Port-au-Prince

Meaning of shutter

1. noun One who shuts or closes something.
2. noun Each of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
3. noun A similar screen used as an improvised stretcher to carry someone wounded or sick.

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Questions about shutter in a sentence

How do you use shutter in a sentence?

Shutter is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!”

What is a short sentence with shutter?

“This company was shuttered in 2002.”

What does shutter mean?

Shutter means one who shuts or closes something.