Examples of “shutter” in a Sentence

noun A hinged or sliding panel used to cover a window.

• She opened the wooden shutters to let the morning sun in.
• Blue shutters framed every window of the little seaside house.
• They closed the shutters before the storm hit.

noun The mechanism in a camera that opens briefly to let light reach the film or sensor.

• Press the button halfway, then click, and the shutter snaps open for an instant.
• A slow shutter can make moving cars look like streaks of light.
• The photographer used a fast shutter speed to freeze the action.

verb To close down permanently.

• The company shuttered its last remaining factory.