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Example sentences for "shut myself"

  • I shut myself up in my room, and I ordered the servants to say I was unwell and could see no one.

  • Next day I shut myself up to answer a host of questions that Esther had sent me.

  • I was impatient to read the terrible letter, and as soon as they were gone I shut myself up in my room to prevent any interruptions.

  • I shut myself in the room with it to feel it on my skin, to bury my lips in it, to kiss it.

  • I have not four walls to shut myself up in, except when I come to give a lesson in this room.

  • My, how I made my escape, running all the way to the station, and as I thought the fury was pursuing me I shut myself in an inner room as the train was not due for half an hour.

  • And I shut myself in, giving strict orders to Joe that there was to be no talking about me or my campaign.

  • I shut myself in and busied myself at the telephone.

  • I shut myself in my private office for several hours of hard thinking--as I can now see, the first real attention I had given my business in two months.

  • I shut myself in my chamber and labored three or four months with inexpressible ardor, in forming into a work for the public eye, the memoir I had read before the academy.

  • To avoid continual mortifications, I shut myself up with my books, or else wept and sighed unnoticed in the woods.

  • Upon this single word I shut myself up in my apartment; and in three weeks produced, in the place of Tasso, another act, the subject of which was Hesiod inspired by the muses.

  • Nevertheless, I did not rest at Dover; and as soon as I got to London I shut myself up with a truly English attack of the spleen, while I thought of Pauline and strove to forget her.

  • I had made up my mind, and this was enough for me; and after having fixed the time and place of meeting, I shut myself up, pretending to be unwell.

  • From breakfast to the midday meal I shut myself in my bedroom and wrote letters to my mother and grandmother.

  • But dear old grannie was acting according to her principles in putting me through a term of penance, so I shut myself in my room as directed, with goodwill towards her at my heart.

  • I shut myself up in my room with the Undine, and we amused ourselves as best we could till it was night, for she could not go out while it was light in her spiritual costume.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    business done; direct object; fighting chance; flesh yellowish; good sailor; judicial decision; know him; material phenomena; moral agents; our boat; read and; reasonable time; routine work; second attempt; shut down; shut himself; shut myself; shut the; shut them; three blades; turn over; two hundred thousand dollars; vocal training; word and; would have been hard; young gent