locked (up)

past tense of lock (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for locked (up)
Verb
  • Saad Almadi, a 75-year-old dual US-Saudi citizen, remains barred from exiting the country after previously being imprisoned and reportedly tortured over X posts about the crown prince, including one about Khashoggi’s murder.
    Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • They were blacklisted, harassed, silenced, and even imprisoned.
    Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Over the years, Panahi has been twice jailed in Iran and forbidden to film.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • After further protests, in 1950, he was jailed again.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Darius Bazley interned for New Balance for a year before becoming a first-round pick in the 2019 NBA Draft.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Carpenter first met Kirk as a teenager in 2021 at a small gathering in the Arizona Biltmore and later interned for Turning Point Action.
    Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Many, if not most, of the attendees had previously been incarcerated.
    Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Rocha’s father was a gang member, Reynolds said, and incarcerated during his childhood.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the 1880s, a New York heiress with an active and unorthodox social life was declared a habitual drunkard, placed under a legal guardianship, and later confined to an asylum.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In the seventh episode of the show, one sequence portrays Ed Gein killing a nurse at the hospital where he is confined.
    JR Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Locked (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locked%20%28up%29. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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