Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape.
Imprisonment of workers during the strike.
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Examples for "lock "
Examples for "lock "
1 Sydney's lock - out laws were driven by the New South Wales state government.
2 I found it in the lock last night and brought it in.
3 The key was in the lock on the outside of the door.
4 To his great surprise he heard the lock click, a moment later.
5 I had no trouble in fitting it or in turning the lock .
1 The rotten woodwork cracked, and a second onset forced the lock away .
2 Didn't we lock away women and commit horrific crimes against children?
3 She swept the lock away with her pinkie and looked around.
4 Obviously we will lock away valuables, etc, but what is the situation regarding insurance?
5 It may be time to lock away the credit card.
1 She asked me to put away the game; she had some news.
2 Keep it always on hand; put away in glass jars covered closely.
3 I want the resolution filed and put away in the city archives.
4 Cool, and put away in the pots in which they were baked.
5 She has put away several pizzas so far, and still wants more.
1 The arms shut up in the arsenals were distributed among the populace.
2 Mrs. Sutcliffe would be shut up in the dining-room with the sewing-party.
3 The gnomes kept me shut up in their hill all the time.
4 The place is now shut up , and the owners live in France.
5 The troubled times of the Regulators shut up the courts of justice.
1 A curtain of the same shut away the wardrobe and washing apparatus.
2 You ought to be shut away from people, with your wild ideas.
3 When people have been shut away from the sun a long time--
4 Reed, shut away from all the clamour, was powerless to defend himself.
5 He had kept them shut away until tonight, then set them free.
1 You would lock up the air and sell it in gasping breaths.
2 It's almost seven o'clock, and I need to lock up the building.
3 The individual may lock up his funds, but the nation does not.
4 On the whole, I judged it best to lock up my things.
5 Let's lock up and have evidence collection sweep it in the morning.
Close with or as if with a tight seal.
1 That has led existing borrowers to try and lock in better rates.
2 A second later the door lock in the glass partition clicked open.
3 But once you find the right combination, it's easy to lock in .
4 Fund participants must lock in their investments for two years, until 2013.
5 To lock in the rate, customers have to sign a 12-month contract.
6 They buy the equivalent fuel and carbon permits to lock in profits.
7 Maybe he didn't let his stabilizing rotors have time to lock in .
8 He was glad when he heard the lock in his door click.
9 More importantly, the purchases can lock in supply before an expected shortfall.
10 Their targeting systems will heat up as they lock in on Matthew.
11 Beautiful, smart, gutsy, no pretensions, just lock in and inhabit the part.
12 I walk up to it and grab the lock in my hand.
13 I lock in the moisture with Vaseline Cocoa Butter Lip Balm Tin.
14 You can just about lock in Brodie Grundy as vice-captain as well.
15 Was there some secret he wished to lock in her breast forever?
16 He felt certain he had an old shackle lock in here somewhere.
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