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Use "shut down" in a sentence
"Much of the section of freeway that is being shut down winds through a hillside pass near Beverly Hills and other communities that are susceptible to brushfires."
"Harley told James that they would immunize some of the animals in the lab with EBV peptides that looked like the Sm B self-protein, and that if these Epstein-Barr protein pieces produced lupus in them he would shut down several other projects in order to test whether that association could also be found in humans."
"“At one point on the trip back to Earth it got so bad,” Aldrin jokes, “that we could have shut down our attitude-control thrusters and done the job ourselves!”"