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place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
She locked her jewels in the safe
How To Use shut away In A Sentence
- Shut away in a music practise room with a djembe, he began to play. Times, Sunday Times
- A lot of people are classed as mad and shut away unnecessarily.
- He was ten years old when he was shut away in an asylum for stealing an apple.
- `With my husband living in cloud-cuckoo-land and my daughter shut away in a nunnery, it's as if I have only Matthew left. OUT OF THE ASHES
- They were shut away in a little room where nobody could overhear.
- They were shut away in a little room where nobody could overhear.
- They were shut away in a little room where nobody could overhear.
- I hate being shut away in the country.
- He was ten years old when he was shut away in an asylum for stealing an apple.
- They lolloped sombrely out of reach and Sir Alexander had them shut away for the rest of the visit. The Complete Stories
