Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for locked
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The one commode in it was shielded from sight only by wooden shutters, which swung on double-action spring hinges, like saloon doors, and had to be latched shut with a hook on a swivel.—
Caleb Crain,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026 -
School board and district leaders blamed the local union for dragging out the process, and state officials latched onto those complaints to criticize the union.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Mar. 2026
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Johnson returned to the bench with his torso wrapped.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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The flesh looked like a human brain and smelled like rotten hamburger meat wrapped in gym socks wrapped in butt.—
Cassandra Neyenesch,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Her family said she was chained to her hospital bed.—
Kristie Keleshian,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Every now and then, there were bikes chained to the iron fences along the sidewalk and huge trash bins.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News, two other media brands that also chronicled the television business for decades, folded in 2024.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2026
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Within the casket was a dog, an old slipper folded in its paws.—
Jennie Key,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
31 Mar. 2026
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Multiple people connected with the company, including the former chairman of the Coweta County Republican Party, have been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars and barred from acting as an investment adviser in the state.—
Madeline Montgomery,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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More than 600,000 people will be barred from returning to their homes in the area north of Israel, the defense minister said, part of a broader Israeli offensive into the country that critics have characterized as an invasion.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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Instead of forming a concentric pattern around Katmai, the ash encircled Novarupta.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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Just beyond this mess, a chain-link fence encircled the site of the lodge.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Andrew Higgins, an aerospace engineer at McGill University, worries that the LEGO-like way that SR-1 Freedom has been planned—with lots of parts from different, unrelated projects just waiting to be bolted together—vastly understates the challenge ahead.—
David W. Brown,
Scientific American,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Chiefs since bolted for a sweetheart deal in Kansas.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
30 Mar. 2026
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As much as this music ties itself to the beauty of the physical world, it’s also enveloped by a thick fog.—
Vrinda Jagota,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2026
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The roughly 2,600-square-foot structure is set into a sloping site and enveloped in the natural landscape along a private road.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Locked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locked. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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