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Shutters in sentence

96 examples of Shutters in a sentence

And what it basically implies is that, in houses now, we don't need drapes or shutters or blinds anymore because we can sheath the building with these things, as well as control the amount of air conditioning you need inside that building.
"Why did you throw away the shutters?"
And as I walked through the village, I could feel hundreds of pairs of eyes watching me from behind doorways and curtains, from behind shutters.
In general, the film translates well to tape--the biggest loss are car scenes where two-shots become alternating one-shots, and the squabble outside the diner, a three shot in the theater (inscrutable dude leaning against store shutters), now mostly a two-shot, which really removes a lot of the dry wit.
Germany doesn’t have a low-carbon alternative if it shutters its nuclear plants, and the same is true of most other countries.
Outside in the darkness the settlement was awaking, lights were dawning one by one between the laths of the shutters.
It was in a vast shed, with beams blackened by the powder, and large shutters, through which blew a constant current of air.
Chapter 2THE room remained shut up and the shutters had allowed gradual streaks of daylight to form a fan on the ceiling.
Then shutters were drawn back, yawns and coughs were heard through the walls.
The shutters remained closed so as not to disturb Father Bonnemort's sleep.
Not a gleam shone from the closed shutters, the house fronts slept, with the heavy sleep of snoring barracks.
But the buildings especially were growing torpid, the screening-shed with closed shutters, the steeple in which the rumbling of the receiving-room no more arose, and the machine-room grown cold, and the giant chimney too large for the occasional smoke.
The miners clenched their fists and watched the soldiers from behind their shutters by the pale light of the early morning.
When the women came back, and the men had finished destroying the railway, they besieged the stall, the shutters of which yielded at once.
bread!"M. Hennebeau was standing at the window when Hippolyte came in to close the shutters, for fear the windows should be broken by stones.
He closed all on the ground floor, and then went up to the first floor; the creak of the window-fasteners was heard and the clack of the shutters one by one.
As he thus stood alone, powerless, in the middle of the road, he was called by a man standing on the threshold of the Estaminet Tison, where the landlady had just put up the shutters in haste, leaving only the door free.
They waited on for another quarter of an hour, worn out by the noise in the street, and by the sound of the stones from time to time striking the closed shutters which rang out like gongs.
But when she reached it she was seized by such shame that she rushed away along the gardens for fear of being recognized by someone, in spite of the heavy sleep which weighed on all eyes behind the closed shutters.
All the shutters had been flung back at the administration building, the vast structure seemed alive again.
From the fish branch there were manta rays, enormous cartilaginous fish ten feet long and weighing 600 pounds, their pectoral fin triangular, their midback slightly arched, their eyes attached to the edges of the face at the front of the head; they floated like wreckage from a ship, sometimes fastening onto our windows like opaque shutters.
He went into the kitchen, but did not at once catch sight of Emma; the outside shutters were closed.
She found again in the same places the foxgloves and wallflowers, the beds of nettles growing round the big stones, and the patches of lichen along the three windows, whose shutters, always closed, were rotting away on their rusty iron bars.
Every day at the same time the schoolmaster in a black skullcap opened the shutters of his house, and the rural policeman, wearing his sabre over his blouse, passed by.
We've feathered our nest; while one of these days you'll find the 'Cafe Francais' closed with a big placard on the shutters.
It was mid-day, the shutters of the houses were closed and the slate roofs that glittered beneath the fierce light of the blue sky seemed to strike sparks from the crest of the gables.
To call her, Rodolphe threw a sprinkle of sand at the shutters.
But the child began to cough in her cot or Bovary snored more loudly, and Emma did not fall asleep till morning, when the dawn whitened the windows, and when little Justin was already in the square taking down the shutters of the chemist's shop.
At mid-day Charles came in; then he went out again; next she took some beef-tea, and towards five o'clock, as the day drew in, the children coming back from school, dragging their wooden shoes along the pavement, knocked the clapper of the shutters with their rulers one after the other.
The early dawn was broadening between the pillars of the market, and the chemist's shop, with the shutters still up, showed in the pale light of the dawn the large letters of his signboard.
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