How came it to shut so easily and so effectually after him?

I walked over and held the door shut so she couldn't leave.

Then the door shut so sharply that his fingers caught an agonizing pinch.

The windows are almost always nailed shut so they can't leave, Southwell said.

His eyes are squeezed shut so tight I'm sure it hurts.

She now opened all those floodgates of reprehension, which had been shut so long.

Someone was hammering the windows shut so there was no chance of getting out.

The door was wired shut so the passenger had to step over the side.

My inner eye had slammed shut so tight it was giving me a headache.

Try to keep the mouth clamped shut so the alligator does not begin shaking.

His hands snapped open and shut so that he could barely force them into sign.

The pad folds shut so tightly that it's difficult to cram your stuff in there.

I held my tongue only by clamping my mouth shut so hard my jaw ached.

They seemed to hear the rotten flood-gates, shut so long ago, creak on their rusty hinges.

Lloyd caught at his hand, shut so desperately upon the knob, striving to loosen his clasp.

I slammed the window shut so they would know I'd heard them and their idiotic joking.