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lock
noun as in device that fastens and bars free passage
Example Sentences
But according to law enforcement authorities, being locked up hasn’t stopped him from running drug and protection rackets in his old neighborhood.
Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are currently locked in a standoff, each putting forward resolutions for reopening the government that have failed in multiple rounds of voting.
"I literally ran into the Co-op to get some snacks and chatted to Jen who works there and came back out again. I hadn't locked the car. I'm an idiot."
“The whole season, I am locked in on what that man is doing on the field,” the “Love Story” singer said.
But football is “violent chess. That is gladiators without swords. That is dangerous. The whole season, I am locked in on what that man is doing on the field.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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