Shuttering is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Shuttering meaning
- The act of closing something with shutters.
- The winding down of a business, a publication, etc.
- Formwork.
Using Shuttering
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of closing something with shutters. | The winding down of a business, a publication, etc. | Formwork.
- In the example corpus, shuttering often appears in combinations such as: shuttering of, shuttering the, and shuttering.
Context around Shuttering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shuttering
- In this selection, "shuttering" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hill, church, years, streets, locations and two stand out and add context to how "shuttering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 50 years shuttering factories ruining and after abruptly shuttering all stores. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shuttering" sits close to words such as aarp, accretion and aerosols, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shuttering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It was announced in July that this discount store would be shuttering stores. (13 words)
Other retailers have announced vast swatches of closures too, including Boots, which is shuttering 300 stores. (16 words)
Beloved Sydney bar Cafe Freda’s announced on Friday their doors would be shuttering in early 2025. (17 words)
There is growing momentum for the shuttering of Rikers Island following the deaths of nine individuals in custody in 2023, according to figures from city comptroller Brad Lander's dashboard, which labeled New York's jails as "a moral stain on the city". (43 words)
In the letter, Jassy described 2022 as “one of the harder macroeconomic years in recent memory” and detailed the steps Amazon had taken to trim costs, such as shuttering its health care initiative Amazon Care and some stores across the country. (41 words)
Less than a day after abruptly shuttering all stores, the parent company of Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging it violated workers’ rights by laying them off without required notice and pay. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
About 10 days after the Freedom Convoy first settled in Ottawa outside of Parliament Hill, shuttering streets and businesses, Ford took part in a phone call with Trudeau over how the protests were being handled.
Amid broad cost-cutting moves, Meta is shuttering the Facebook Watch originals group, whose small slate of shows included the breakout hit “Red Table Talk” hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, Variety has confirmed.
Apple’s shuttering of its social media support team (which included assistance over X) is just the latest casualty.
Barnes & Noble ended 2022 with some surprising news: After more than a decade of shuttering locations, the chain plans to debut 30 new stores this year.
Becton, Dickinson spun Embecta off less than a year ago, and now it is already shuttering a production line, slashing guidance, and delivering results far short of initial expectations.
Bed Bath & Beyond’s stores may be shuttering, but its brand will live on after Overstock.com won an auction for the bankrupt retailer’s intellectual property.
But recently, the slowing growth rate and shuttering of "unprofitable" business units have highlighted the lack of focus that the company currently has.
In the letter, Jassy described 2022 as “one of the harder macroeconomic years in recent memory” and detailed the steps Amazon had taken to trim costs, such as shuttering its health care initiative Amazon Care and some stores across the country.
Media layoffs are surging around the U.S., but BuzzFeed is taking it one step further and shuttering its whole news division as it lays off 15% of employees.
Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has continued his fierce assault on the Catholic Church, shuttering two important Catholic universities and appropriating their assets.
The Dominican Republic partially reopened its border with Haiti on Wednesday to limited commercial activity nearly a month after shuttering the frontier in a continuing spat over construction of a canal targeting water from a shared river.
The storm, supercharged by the warm July waters of the Pacific, delivered Beijing's worst flooding in more than 50 years, shuttering factories, ruining crops, collapsing homes and displacing tens of thousands of people.
Ardent customers and neighbors bemoaned the December shuttering of the queer-friendly eatery known for upscale fried chicken and biscuits.
Before we cry foul that Valve is shuttering Steam support for potential users, understand that Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 only make up a total of 0.89% of all Steam users.
Beloved Sydney bar Cafe Freda’s announced on Friday their doors would be shuttering in early 2025.
GXP is a designation for Pontiac performance trims that showed up in 2005, and was featured on a few models prior to the brand shuttering.
It was announced in July that this discount store would be shuttering stores.
Less than a day after abruptly shuttering all stores, the parent company of Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging it violated workers’ rights by laying them off without required notice and pay.
Other retailers have announced vast swatches of closures too, including Boots, which is shuttering 300 stores.
There is growing momentum for the shuttering of Rikers Island following the deaths of nine individuals in custody in 2023, according to figures from city comptroller Brad Lander's dashboard, which labeled New York's jails as "a moral stain on the city".
Common combinations with shuttering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shuttering of 12×
- shuttering the 10×
- and shuttering 7×
- shuttering in 7×
- be shuttering 6×
- is shuttering 5×
- the shuttering 5×
- after shuttering 4×
- shuttering stores 4×
- as shuttering 3×