How to Use lockdown in a Sentence

lockdown

noun

• The pandemic lockdown kept Starr off the road for two years.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
• Things felt eerily similar to the first few days of the Covid lockdown.
  — Mira Ptacin, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• The data shows the effect of the Covid lockdowns and weak recovery last year.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024
• The back of the heel is cradled instead by a snug heel collar, which is good for heel lockdown.
  — Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2024
• The lockdown was lifted around 2:30 p.m., and the school planned to dismiss students as normal.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• Like so many, Emily and her husband, Matt, were in lockdown.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• But the evening became the starting point for a wider project about young people, lockdown and mental health.
  — Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
• Accepting the agent’s challenge, Li spent the lockdown year churning out a draft.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
• There should be a 9/11-type commission that dissects the pros and cons of the lockdown for public perusal.
  — Readers, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
• If her centerstage persona took off during lockdown, Mutant;Destrudo might point to the birth of a new era.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2023
• Following the Covid-19 lockdown, schools reopened, but many students have not come back — even to this day.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 18 Jan. 2024
• Many had slashed the size of their fleets and laid off thousands of employees just to stay afloat as Covid-19 lockdowns throttled air travel.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• In the wake of a global lockdown, downtown pessimism had a different tone.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Paul was a vocal critic of lockdown measures put in place as a result of the pandemic.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
• And during Britain’s first Covid lockdown, the company shared the recipe online so bereft customers could make their own.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• In 2020, Johan and I were sitting at the kitchen table soon after lockdown began.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Schools in the area were placed on lockdown while officers searched for the suspect, who was also found with a gunshot wound, police said.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
• Jon Favreau just got it on lockdown or what the deal is, but Mandalorian was pretty seamless.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
• Harold had mapped out the whole thing two years earlier, during one of France’s strict pandemic lockdowns.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The school was placed on lockdown during the investigation.
  — The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
• Steyn and his wife lived through the pandemic at their resort, which was closed for the duration of Indonesia’s lockdown.
  — Michael Robinson Chavez, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• The trip, which was supposed to last only four days, became extended as New York City went into a lockdown.
  — Gina Vivinetto, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• The shooting sent students fleeing across campus and prompted an hours-long lockdown.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• By the following March, Britain had entered the first of its Covid lockdowns, during which the project’s original builders filed for bankruptcy.
  — Ellie Pithers, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• Was the production hit by the pandemic and lockdown restrictions?
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
• In early 2022, the district was reeling after a student was shot at Magruder High School, sending the school on lockdown for hours.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• Administrators of the school, which is a Portland Public Schools K-8 that draws students by lottery from across the district, placed the school on lockdown and called 911.
  — oregonlive, 16 May 2023
• However, the lockdown during the pandemic helped bring him even closer to his mother.
  — Jolene Latimer, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
• Troye recorded the song in the pandemic, trying to capture the energy of that moment between lockdowns in Melbourne when people were able to go back to the club.
  — Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2023
• In 2011, Strickland said, there was a shooting scare on campus, which prompted a lockdown, but the weapon threat ended up being an umbrella, not a gun.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024