shut the door

Example Sentences

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Blue Owl Capital, one of Wall Street’s biggest private-credit managers with more $300 billion in assets, permanently shut the door on investor withdrawals from one of its retail-focused funds and ended quarterly redemptions.

From MarketWatch

"He attempted to push the shooter out of his classroom, and when he was shot, Christian's last act on this earth was to shut the door to his classroom to protect his friends."

From BBC

“The answer isn’t to shut the door,” says Anna Kaltenboeck, president of Verdant Research, who helped draft drug-pricing laws under the Biden administration.

From The Wall Street Journal

Red’s mother nodded and shut the door.

From Literature

Then he shut the door in my speechless face.

From Literature