How to Use lockout in a Sentence

lockout

noun

• Last year’s lockout forced the Reds to open the season on the road for the first time since 1990.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
• Must be the lockout changing the schedule, the COO said.
  — Mike Bass Special To The Cincinnati Enquirer Usa Today Network, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2023
• Given the lockout, there wasn’t a ton of time for change.
  — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
• The show also wasn't produced in 2011 due to the NFL lockout.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• After my first year, which was the lockout year, that was very hard.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
• This all stems from the lockout that pushed back the start of the regular season by a week.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 30 June 2022
• The Guardians caught a break when the Rule 5 Draft was canceled following the lockout.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2022
• Biden does not have the power to prevent a strike or lockout once again.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Sep. 2022
• Last year, it was canceled due to the lockout, marking the first time in 130 years that some form of the draft did not take place.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2022
• The first week of the season was postponed because of the lockout (that seems like a million years ago).
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• The series had been rescheduled from the start of the 2022 season due to the owners’ lockout of players.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• The two worked together for just over a month before the lockout.
  — Kristie Ackert, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2022
• But the year that stumbled out of the blocks following a 99-day lockout had much more than the 4.8 miles of home runs off Judge's bat.
  — Jim Sergent, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2022
• In other words, account lockouts appear to be down by a third.
  — WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
• Same goes if there’s a lockout, meaning that the client forgot to leave a key or provide access to their home.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Sale then fractured a rib during the lockout last season and missed all of spring training again.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2023
• Last year: the lockout, which dragged into March, along with another new team.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
• There are safety rules in each game, including the lockout rule and tapping rule.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
• The lockout pushed those trades from the offseason to spring training, which impacted the clubhouse.
  — The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2022
• The Rule 5 Draft will take place on Wednesday after it was canceled last season because of the lockout.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2022
• So one of the companies is from Michigan, the lockout company.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 July 2023
• During the Major League Baseball lockout, Sale broke a rib while working out on his own.
  — Larry Fleisher, ajc, 17 July 2022
• The attack has reportedly led to a shutdown of the casinos and a lockout of guests from their hotel rooms.
  — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2023
• In an unusual twist, that hearing was conducted in May due to the lockout.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2023
• His bounce back from TJ was slowed by being on 40-man roster during lockout.
  — Dallas News, 21 July 2022
• The chatter and deals were missing for a portion of the lead-up to the 2022 season, with the lockout dominating discussion.
  — Chicago Tribune, 28 Dec. 2022
• It’s been over a year since the lockout ended and Sbarra completed his viral project.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• And for the longer climbs where that kind of percentage could add up to a few seconds, what’s wrong with using the lockout manually?
  — Seb Stott, Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2022
• The schedule this year was changed because of the lockout imposed by the owners that delayed Opening Day until April 7.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• With the playoffs already pushed back because of the lockout, there really isn’t any room for makeup games.
  — Abbey Mastracco, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024