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Recent Examples of lock out
Verb
For Cynthia, now showing up to work as a manager means being on the other side when a factory locks out its employees, who are also friends.—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 9 June 2025 With the ultras locked out of the ground, the Auteuil group attended the PSG women’s team’s games instead, to show their continuing support.—Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 31 May 2025
Noun
The owners locked out players that winter, and the wrecking ball hit as soon as the lockout ended.—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025 There is a front suspension fork with short travel and a lockout option, and the LE20 rides on 20-inch tires.—William Roberson, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lock out
In addition to the fort’s historic reenactments, there are tours available, and many guests enjoy walking along the pristine beach to look for whales from December to April.
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AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
17 June 2025
Refrain from entering water that may have electricity in it and avoid walking through floodwaters.
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NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
17 June 2025
Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.
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Jamila Stewart,
Vogue,
22 Mar. 2023
News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.
About five hours after his arrest inside 26 Federal Plaza, Lander, joined by his wife and Gov. Hochul, walked out to cheers and applause from supporters gathered outside the courthouse.
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Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2025
To make sure she’d get booed, Becky Lynch walked out in Bears gear.
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which has run Japan with just two brief gaps since 1955, is very skilled at pinning economic slowdowns on the BOJ.
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William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
The slowdown in Sin City is in line with what’s going on elsewhere, Hill said.
Later in the show, the team discussed skipping practice or staging a walkout to put pressure on Cowboys management, but ultimately decided against it, McLean told TIME.com.
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Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
Recording artist and founding investor Becky G read that message from the field before player walkouts.
The job action shut down the entirety of New Jersey Transit’s rail service, from the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains in New York to Atlantic City — including, most notably, trains into and out of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.
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Dan Barry,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
The order also directed an investigation of the job action, which was a violation of the Taylor Law barring certain state employees from striking.
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Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2025
Earlier this month, hundreds of Metro bus riders staged a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults among their ranks carried out by passengers.
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Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2024
On Wednesday, the City Council voted to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Baggett’s family members.
— TRANSIT TRAUMA: Days after hundreds of Metro bus drivers staged a sick-out protesting safety concerns, L.A.’s transit network continued to experience a string of violent behavior.
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