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vb. (present participle of shut out English)
Usage examples of "shutting out".
As Helen spread unsalted butter on slices of bread and placed smoked salmon, red pepper and a squirt of lemon on top, she allowed herself the brief fantasy of living with Rupert in the little caravan like a couple of gypsies, cooking him ingenious dinners on the stove each night, shutting out the rest of the horsey world except Billy.
The mist outside the windows seemed, if anything, denser than before, and it swirled and eddied in curling wreaths above the damp stones of the terrace, muffling the noises of the countryside and shutting out the light.
The music and laughter was momentarily louder before it closed again, shutting out all but the heartiest laughter and the faint kitchen sounds of dishes clinking together.
She directs her message, shutting out other ears, and Trouble bridles, but then the stranger answers, uneasy, flicks away as soon as icon-Cerise nods.
Buildings of stone and crystal and metal loomed around them, shutting out the bright sunshine.
Right now, what she wanted most of all was to crawl into bed and pull the covers over her head, shutting out the world until she felt capable of facing it again.
The doors of the bagnio swung shut behind him, shutting out the mud and the stench of Divvytown.
So she kept her mouth shut and her face front as the black towers loomed around her, their leafy burden shutting out the sky, the world suddenly full of the sound of water and of hooves moving in water, the squish and slide of it, the smell of it filling her nostrils in a way quite different from the smell of rain.
Behind them, Voss shut the doors with a boom, shutting out the light, save for the sharp spears that jabbed through the shadows.
As the flames rose higher, shutting out the people locked in a deadly embrace, the fire alarm began to peel.