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    Use "lock" in a sentence

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    locks


    1. "Whatever papers there are in that lock box, I've looked at them a dozen times and never noticed


    2. Grandma would usually lock her in a closet if she didn’t feel like dealing with her that day


    3. This planet succumbs to gravitational lock before this sun burns out, but they calculate they have about another billion Earth years, they think fusion power would seriously deplete the planet of water in less than two hundred million


    4. There had been a lock on the container that looked too expensive for it to be there


    5. They're still up north in a lock box in the house I sold to Jorma and Venna


    6. We lock eyes and the palm turns into a fist


    7. “I could just pick the lock,” Nancy offered


    8. “Now, I should have applied just enough that the liquid will bypass the lock’s structural integrity for a matter of moments, allowing me to bend it like rubber and open the door before the lock returns to a solid state,” Ackers thought out loud


    9. This will not only lock up money without giving any return, it also would mean loss when the design is changed when you finally need it


    10. Ackers detached his keypad box and threw both it and his lock picking gadget into his backpack

    11. It was like the ultimate skeleton key, able to open any lock


    12. "I have delivered lock fittings bigger than this but that was at competitive wages


    13. "That's why we call it lock fittings," doostEr said


    14. were rusted beyond hope of opening, fused together at hinge and at lock, clinging to


    15. almost immediately heard a key turning in the door lock


    16. Usually there is a long tense scene of trying to get the lock open as the first obstacle in the gauntlet


    17. He motions to one of the soldiers, who comes over, puts Khalid in a head lock


    18. A key turns in the lock of the cell door and a GUARD


    19. A key rattles in the lock and the door opens


    20. There was no doubt that the shuttlecraft was on course to reach Narrulla's Tear, and could couple with the old lock on the Lula in as little as two hours

    21. lock and the heavy, ratchet grumble of sliding tumblers


    22. ’ She said over coffee in her kitchen one afternoon as I am waiting to lock up the hall after the dancing session


    23. At first, when the long hours of silence were rudely interrupted by activity out in the corridor, I did not believe in the sounds that came from the world outside of my cell: boots on ladder rungs, a scuff of rubber soles across rough concrete, and finally the sound of a key in a lock


    24. Too often the men of the congregation think the only responsibility is to hire, fire the preacher; count noses at the assemblies, lock and unlock the building, and count the contribution


    25. A door lock


    26. "This is a lock from your first haircut


    27. When Robbie returned to collect my breakfast tray and lock me down for the day I stood up and touched him on the arm


    28. I lay there in a blissful stupor until the chill of the floor started to lock the muscles in my back


    29. I heard a key in a lock


    30. The key in my lock turned

    31. Robbie stood up and turned to leave the room and lock us in for the night, but he paused just before he reached the door


    32. Menachem and I sat talking for an hour before we heard the key turn in the lock once more


    33. The key turned in the lock as always, and in walked Robbie and The Man, their ever-present leader, their Knight Templar


    34. I waited for the key to turn in the lock


    35. With the coming of night and lock down, Menachem and I now slept together, moving our mattresses next to each other


    36. He could not remember ever getting those papers out after that incident could he? He had never told Ava those papers were there had he? He knew that lock box contained her most important old personal records


    37. There were lines of ships and rafts anchored off every lock entry, ropes being paddled in and out, barges being drawn both ways in a complex ballet who's rhythm wasn't obvious at first


    38. He was held up for a good fraction of an hour in a big rope-snarl across the whole canal coming from the upstream lock


    39. “Because he does not kill when the king commands, the long lock warrior


    40. high above the lock and key

    41. They wait or they turn the key in the lock,


    42. Horns lock across a kitchen table, where the number,


    43. Desa had done lock once in her life, during practice on Yandrille while Isandra taught her


    44. (chops off a lock of her hair


    45. Press your chin firmly against your chest in a chin lock and place your hands, palms down, facing the opposite way to your legs


    46. They braved a decade of cantankerous lock operators and a five year delay in a smelly old desert city in Goblin country when a drought dried up a canal for awhile


    47. I started off with a lock down room of course right away where there was a mattress on the floor


    48. This didn't please me because I had figured it was my "furious thunder" that loosened the lock


    49. Oh David - practicalities, Sally – how about you put all the special, personal items in this room and lock it - there’s plenty of room in the rest of the house for the tenants to use - that might be the best solution for the time being


    50. The sound of a key in the lock makes me jump – I’m not used to it














































    1. Still, good manners kept her locked in place even if it ended up costing her life


    2. · Keep medications out of reach or locked away


    3. “I can’t believe how sharp you keep this thing,” Nancy commented as she kept her eyes locked on Scar


    4. They were locked in a neutral expression, and couldn’t move their mouths or any other part of their head besides their neck and eyes


    5. So now the next step had to do with bypassing the locked door


    6. It was definitely locked


    7. Some things had to be investigated instead of assumed, and now that he knew for sure the door was locked, he knew exactly how to proceed


    8. “I am just locked out of my house


    9. But Doreen assured me that he oversaw Dan putting all the stuff back into the cupboard and locked it up securely


    10. But how did he get hold of the gun? Henry keeps all the props locked up … Dan would have had to ask for it, borrowed the key or something

    11. ’ She said once I have locked the car


    12. This special mixture, when applied to plants/soil, can release locked up minerals; improve the cation-exchange in the soil, and has chelation abilities


    13. Enzymes are important to plants in that they help to release minerals, nutrients that are locked up in the soil


    14. with eyes locked in their own soul-deep and soundless embrace, the couple began to


    15. I want him on the other side of a locked and bolted


    16. How odd, he thought, it sounds as though I’m being locked in


    17. ‘I left all my personal stuff … school reports and the like … in a trunk locked in the roof there


    18. It took some time, but by mid afternoon, we had packed all her furniture into the van and she locked the house up for the last time


    19. Our eyes were still locked together


    20. We’ve got the gates locked here

    21. The atmosphere shouldn't be too bad here, a little integration should render it out, so she locked the scope on it and let it focus


    22. Locked down with the shock, bound in chains of fear, I tried to break my bonds by lashing out at phantoms amid irrational bouts of bravado


    23. "Wambach is getting locked in a hold


    24. Out of the corner of my eye, through my own tears, I could just about see that he was sweating, that he too was breathing hard, that he was locked into the violence of the moment


    25. He should have locked the door, this was technically a security violation, but Jaseem was in no mood to study schematics if he even paid any attention


    26. It struck me that the bastards had locked me in


    27. She gets about half way to the desk before turning back with her eyes locked on him, speaking loudly this time,


    28. I listened dumbly to the sound of receding footsteps and the soft snick of a door closing and being locked


    29. " He came out and locked the office, keeping it and the children safe from each other


    30. With that he closed the door and locked us in

    31. Then he too broke the chains of captivity, and locked Menachem into his own arms so that they could start the dance all over again


    32. There followed a storm of soundless lovemaking during which she engulfed him, forcing his penetration ever deeper until they ultimately found their symphonic tempo, and always, even in climax, their eyes remained locked together


    33. And with that the lord of Mirage left Son locked in the treasure chamber


    34. He is locked up in the pit for 1000 years


    35. ‘For one thing, my taw stones are still locked up in my house and I feel half-naked without them


    36. He, at another time, took the most noble and wisest of the sages of his time, and locked them into a stadium in Jericho, and then said, “When I die, I want you to kill everyone in this stadium


    37. locked in the eternity of this hard embrace,


    38. They were then pushed into the cage and the gate locked


    39. As you experienced when you retrieved your tawstones, the memories were locked away safely


    40. they’re not locked away, they’re out there, this is live,

    41. She locked in on that, saw where that must have gone, made sure there was nothing else in the area, and drew an arrow sighted toward that area


    42. They were locked in the rear workshop


    43. and institutions locked into the sambo-mentality,


    44. It is the host, the revel, arms locked in arms,


    45. Catwhiskers locked the workshop as Cosmicblasto ran ahead


    46. that you are locked


    47. Lardyme left the room and locked it behind her


    48. His eyes locked on Kate as he descended the mountain


    49. silence, the world hushed between us, locked in the process


    50. she is locked down, on the outside within













































    1. I’m sure he smiled at me before closing and then locking the door


    2. She glanced through it, selected several and handed them to Kara, replacing the balance and locking them again


    3. The nerve they had, locking the door on me in the first place


    4. We hear the sound of footsteps pounding along the corridor as Ben escapes from his sister’s wrath by locking himself in the bathroom


    5. He considered locking the door for a quick one when the phone beeped


    6. Some of the shop owners were just locking up for the day as Harry strode by them with his entourage in tow


    7. When they reached each new station, they were to keep their arms raised without locking their elbows, and with their backs straight


    8. Contour formed brass balls for feet were fashioned onto the corners as added protection from idle scuffing and a brass locking latch was fitted to the front center


    9. Roman looked back at him, his mouth locking away secrets in his head


    10. ” Harry was locking the door behind him and following her along the passage already

    11. Before you can blink, word will spread and we all will be saying it---because our inns and hotels will go unoccupied, our stores will have to close their doors, and if this goes unchecked we shall each have to start locking our own doors at night!”


    12. “What kind of deviant locking device is this!?” she asked


    13. But I had to do something to stop him from locking you up


    14. Heather scampered down the hallway to her room, shutting and locking


    15. She cursed herself for such a fool for locking herself into this tiny little can because she thought she was going to crack the secrets of native communications


    16. While the other stevedores were distracted, Edgar removed the locking cones from where the containers were to be clamped in place


    17. "You're nothing but skin and bones!" said the witch, locking Hansel into a cage


    18. Asmodeus leaned forth and sniffed my flesh before locking his eyes with my own


    19. As quickly as Kallias had been struck by some unseen horror, the Breton felt a harsh blow from the side, her entire body tensing and ultimately locking in place as a result - unable to move


    20. ‘The locking device has to check all’s clear,’ Alistair explained as he pushed the door open

    21. Doris lifted her legs, as she should have done in the first place, and brought them together behind his, locking her ankles and feet securely while at the same time holding his buttocks down with her hands


    22. Most of the teeth on the locking cog had sheared off, leaving the door free to slide in its track


    23. “The short version is that Mars is pissed with us for locking him up


    24. walk out with the program, locking the door


    25. The guards approached the large metal door at the foot of the imposing tower and disabled the electronic locking system


    26. Only a phased gamma-ray microburst could read the locking codes without being detected


    27. The other was a rectangular block of wood with a locking doorknob in it


    28. about locking the place, making sure doors were secured, and insuring that the coast was clear before I headed out the door


    29. Locking the shed, he headed home in his old Fiat, trying to ignore the squeal of a dry bearing somewhere deep inside the engine


    30. Amaranthe turned, locking the expression of an eager merchant onto her face

    31. I went in and relieved myself, not locking the door


    32. Tossing her head angrily, Broshee squeezed her eyes tight shut, locking in the tears, determined not to show her hurt


    33. Sending out his anima, the Teller sought the old Custodian's aura, locking his thoughts onto the tenuous contact, flooding Grey's mind with his own determination


    34. Locking his jaws around the badger's leg, Brokin threw his weight forward, twisting his head savagely, breaking the bone in the guard's leg, as though it was a twig


    35. Our daily routine continued as usual; I left for work in the morning locking the door, and returned at night with food


    36. "Something about locking you up at the first opportunity, I think it was


    37. After locking his bike in the garage, he hurried along the garden path, into the hall and up to the bedroom, where he dug out his best shirt


    38. Locking my fingers around the arms of the seat, I closed my eyes, trying my best not to throw up, every nerve burning as though it were on fire


    39. The sound of that locking door, left little doubt


    40. Howard-Smythe reported that a party had returned from locking out the switch at the far end of the long section of siding where our train sat

    41. After locking the front and back doors with a set of keys he’d found hanging on a hook in the hall, Payne did a quick but thorough search upstairs


    42. Payne grabbed the man in a strangle hold, pressing his forearm into the back of his neck, locking it off by grasping his other arm


    43. I slid to a stop, the rear brake locking up as I stood on it


    44. Gesturing for them to follow him, he led them out into the street, and after locking the shop once again, he asked them to come with him


    45. Mike fingered the mouse, locking in on


    46. ‘Is there any way I can open this window, Dave?’ ‘Yes, I’ll turn off the locking device’


    47. locking the bars behind him


    48. Barret, his eyes locking with Cloud’s


    49. She remembered locking the door and dropping the keys in the same zippered pocket in her bag where she always kept them


    50. “You will wait here,” the guard said, closing the door, locking it from the outside and leaving us in the dark








































    1. "There's better locks out that way


    2. He locks eyes with me as the right hand makes a fist, pumping a stabbing motion into an imaginary chest


    3. ‘What things?’ Adrian asked as he locks the door behind us


    4. black, his flowing locks streaming in the winds and currents of calamitous fatality as


    5. Tipperary even had a pressurized atmo now and it was good to get his helmet off once they got out of the locks, but everything smelled burnt


    6. I tried to unravel time in some vain hope of stopping the days from ticking over into the new shift pattern, but the inevitable morning dawned with the usual sounds of boots on concrete, sliding locks and the dull metallic alarm of my breakfast tray being laid on the floor by my mattress


    7. With each item listed in his panoply of destruction, images flowed and twisted together, images of limbs and contorted faces, of blood and bone and rock, and in the midst of it all, as if conducting a violent symphony of discord, there stood the man in black, his flowing locks streaming in the winds and currents of calamitous fatality as his arms gesticulated wildly


    8. Lylas’ long hair as she washed the blood from his long locks


    9. her fingers through his locks


    10. "Alfred has determined that there are tide control locks in the vicinity of that city," she continued

    11. Four unidentified items marked as ‘belonging to my mother’ … ‘a small silk bag containing locks of Karentze’s hair as a child’ … JJ must have those things … a section headed ‘For Karalintze’ which only showed numbered containers


    12. There were locks open across the Tduun Noz past Gorunda thru to Trastrab now that would take this ship


    13. A meander had been shot thru with a canal, then there was a complex corridor a few miles to the northeast, with a couple sets of tide control locks to pole thru


    14. They continued on along the walkway until they came to a tall iron gate, (with several locks), that barred the walkway


    15. Now here I was back between the cart shafts dragging a schedule again, with keys and locks to my routine


    16. I go over to the hedge while Alastair gathers up his music and locks the car


    17. While Peter turns off lights and locks up, we stroll out into the churchyard


    18. “All along the Konocongcus, the third set of locks and canals from here, the one with the strobing lanterns,” Ava was already beginning to move off in the direction of the dock


    19. Doctor Jasari goes over and locks it, returning the key to his jeans pocket


    20. Kulai’s mother was quite independent now and had a career as a janitorial inspector in a large retail operation on Second Canal and Gazzizon Locks

    21. Once in the bathroom he slams the door shut on purpose, locks it and pulls the chord that powers up the heated lamp unit and the extractor fan


    22. He walked from there, it was little more than three more miles but there were eight canals and all their locks in those miles so walking was much faster


    23. There are indoor locks connecting the levels at two places inside the walls


    24. I know where this is, it’s down beyond Seventh Canal about six locks south


    25. Only two locks down from Seventh, it was out of the bustle of the major canals, close to neighborhoods she was familiar with


    26. familiar with mechanical locks


    27. It took over an hour in all, including two more small locks, just to get out of Chardovia, but once he was on the Grand Canal, the chop was only six inches high


    28. He still had miles of canals and locks to go, but he would still get where he was going well before Nightday lunch


    29. Kneeling down, she gently touched Crystal's golden locks, instantly she popped up and began wiping the sleep from her half-opened eyes


    30. There’s tall crystal towers scattered all around, sometimes in clumps and often near locks

    31. back the hair from her neck, either because the locks obstructed his vision, or


    32. joint locks that would bring the biggest of men to their knees


    33. Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them


    34. From the bridge they had a great view of the back harbor where the Imoneea goes thru the great locks flanking Imoneea Island


    35. chains and locks, and Bernadette explained that it was on


    36. Her curly black locks tumbled down his back as she hung there; limp, her chin jostling against his ribcage as he ran


    37. Sunlight streamed through the windows of his room illuminating the yellow locks of Nathalia as they tumbled down the smooth white flesh of her face


    38. The dread locks turning point


    39. Mark gets out, locks his doors, then disappears into the shadows


    40. He locks the car then fishes for his key as he approaches the front door

    41. A hooded robe the color of ebony did well to obscure most of him, but long amber locks persisted in falling forward


    42. As he pushed locks of his auburn hair out of his face, he grinned at the two Nords - even as the bears prepared to swipe and likely maul the man beyond repair


    43. Now, that being said, she also was certain that the Boss, in particular, and the Lascorii aboard in general were the most beautiful persons she'd ever encountered, and that the Captain had the longest auburn locks of any woman in Pim or Song's memory; that was just as it should be


    44. Those same yellow eyes and amber locks framing them


    45. The same statute permits, at the lowest prices, the importation of corn in order to be exported again, duty free, provided it is in the mean time lodged in a warehouse under the joint locks of the king and the importer


    46. and joint manipulation locks, along with several throwing techniques


    47. locks are the deadliest forms of defense and attack with this martial art, as they


    48. boat, oar locks, and oars


    49. She heard Kurt yell from inside the house, “We would need a wire cutter or crowbar - something to snap the locks


    50. Elena went over and checked both wrist locks













































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    Synonyms for "lock"

    lock ignition lock lock chamber curl ringlet whorl lock away lock in lock up put away shut away shut up engage mesh operate interlock interlace fastener catch bolt clasp latch bar hasp closure portion of hair tuft strand twist snip plait fasten secure link intertwine

    "lock" definitions

    a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed


    a strand or cluster of hair


    a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun


    enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it


    a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key


    any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured


    fasten with a lock


    keep engaged


    become rigid or immoveable


    hold in a locking position


    become engaged or intermeshed with one another


    hold fast (in a certain state)


    place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape


    pass by means through a lock in a waterway


    build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels