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shutting off

vb. (present participle of shut off English)

Usage examples of "shutting off".

Not the sound of a heater shutting off, since it obviously hadn't been on in here all day, and anyway, there was a low hum from the hospital's generating plant across the way.

And then an arm shot around her throat from behind, tightening its grip, shutting off her air.

He wasn't aware of shutting off the motor, only of closing his hands on her slender shoulders.

The computer began rerouting and shutting off some systems, activating others.

Bel Iblis said, shutting off the speaker that was bringing the argument in from the next room and pulling over the room's remaining chair.

Bowley -+ ( and the car went in at the gates and nobody looked at it ) , and shutting off the smoke , away and away it rushed , and the smoke faded and assembled itself round the broad white shapes of the clouds .