Read full poem →time, usually for the day. or to shut off debate on it.
The form of the previous question is: Shall the main
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To stop or turn off by closing something (such as a valve).
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Poetry examples for “shut off”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →When Chase Henry voted against the saloons
To revenge himself for being shut off.
But none of you was keen enough
Read full poem →So straight--only we were left,
the four of us--somehow shut off.
Read full poem →engine-room, one day, because there was thirty foot of water in it. Of
course, I don't deny----" The Steam shut off suddenly, as a tug-boat,
loaded with a political club and a brass band, that had been to see a