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How to use locked in a sentence

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The head added that the thieves caused a lot of damage jemmying open locked doors and filing cabinets.
I quickly ran down the escape pod, and I locked the watertight hatch behind me.
Once the door had been shut and locked, Krupka moved to the window and pulled the blind down.
Depression has at times locked me within my house, once for a period of six weeks.
When I feinted to my left, he quickstepped to his right, gaze locked with mine.
Damien followed suit and jigged around her in a circle, his eyes locked with hers.
Firmly locked in place throughout the South by 1915, Jim Crowism had two cardinal features.
Nobody said anything scary, all the whackos were kept locked away somewhere.
For an infected ant, when the declining air temperature hits a certain threshold, its jaws become locked in a closed position.
That's an awful amount of time to be locked up in the water closet, not to mention the effect on your health!
If your bridge elbow is locked, this is a sure sign of of poor balance and weight distribution.
His hens are also locked indoors and he is watching for signs of the virulent disease.
Dan's pale green eyes locked on his as soon as he had fully turned, the man's mouth quirking in amusement.
The brunt of each episode consists of Ruby locked in her antiseptic queendom, constantly bossing Max around in a purgatory of pushiness.
They were dumped and locked in a fine cabin, full of exotic rugs, firs, jewels and trinkets.
Then, out of sight, they jemmied the outside door and smashed through another internal door, which was locked.
Across Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, lawyers have already locked horns paving the way for lengthy court fights if the election is close.
The tenants have not traded from the 19th Century riverside building since then, and have been locked in a war of words with the council.
It is therefore highly unlikely that he will be abstinent from alcohol unless he was sectioned and in a locked environment.
In a minute I'm in my car with the doors locked and the engine warming up.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But though I saw him several times he reported that the drawer containing the address book was still locked.
What are you going to do with that old brigand you've got locked in the calaboose?
The door of the shop was locked and there was a yell for axes to burst it open.
There in the summer-house he found the Major, who meanwhile had fetched his cashbox from the house and locked the chart up in it.
I turned everything salable or mortgageable into cash, locked the cash up in my private vaults, and waited for the cataclysm.
And he put his joy in the scorn of men, as the miser shuts his gold in a cedarn chest, locked with a triple lock.
He was seized with griping pains in the abdominal region, and locked himself up for the period of one whole day in his court room.
He tried the cellaret, which was as often open as locked, but now unfortunately it was closed.
He cut off the intercom, lugged Elderburg to the chart room and locked him inside.
Lorraine, when she reached her own bedroom, locked her particular treasures securely in her bottom drawer.
Hill, the circulator of the Post, caused the arrest of five of the little fellows and they were locked up.
The circumferential teeth are each counter-based to receive a screw tapped in the head, and are firmly locked thereby.
She folded them, sealed one with the broad seal, and then locked them up in her box till wanted.
He not only closed it, but locked it, having secretly hidden the key in his pocket.
If you allow the occasional use of a close-stool, let it be locked up in the garret that they may not abuse it.
In 1569 Eric was removed to abo in Finland, where he was locked up in a secure prison.
For no appreciable reason, she kept it locked, and the key under the bureau cover.
Inside, he locked the door and lowered the shade of the single window which looked out on an areaway.
To cause s to become locked in its adjusted position a plug screw p is inserted for the end of s to abut against.
If it is locked by burring over the edge of the bolt, do not use a heavy hammer and try to spread the whole head of the bolt.
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