WordNet
Usage examples of "shut away".
I felt a seizure coming on, and for the first time since being shut away in this starched white prison actually managed to fight it off.
She's inside this lion skin, shut away in a cave, doped up, doesn't know where she is or what's going on.
At this moment, wherever she was, he knew he was safely shut away in her thoughts, and the knowledge made every other fact dwindle away to a shadow.
So there we were, shut away safe and quiet in an apartment in New York.
With the door sealed, the glare and noise of the Promenade beyond were shut away.
He'd held back too long on issuing his final challenge, and had been shut away, left to deteriorate, his condition a warning to others who risked falling into the same error.
Suddenly the idea of being shut away, even temporarily, from so great and wonderful a world became intolerable.
They pushed the coffer under his cot, and Kim shut away Mahbub's pistol, the oilskin packet of letters, and the locked books and diaries, with a groan of relief.
The men of Makuran shut away their women to keep power in their own hands, and now the fate of the realm would rest in the hands of a woman.
Rather than just keeping them shut away as hopeless cases, he was willing to listen to their ravings to find clues to their delusions and hope for a cure.
When Steffan was safely shut away, Curanov went to the fourth of the five wall slots, slid into it, pulled the hatch shut, and felt all of his senses drain away from him, so that he was only a mind, floating in darkness, contemplating the wealth of ideas in his data vault.