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Example Sentences

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With our cellphones locked up in security pouches, we gathered around two expensive and strange-looking speakers that resembled ATMs to hear around 20 minutes of music.

From Los Angeles Times

Celtic folk will feel they should still be locked together with Rangers on points and would be had it not been for that red card, a rarity for them in domestic football.

From BBC

Mikaela Shiffrin was in a league of her own in the last women's World Cup slalom before the Winter Olympics on Sunday to lock out a record ninth title in the discipline.

From Barron's

He was locked in a room for several hours before a local official and a Hindu priest came to his aid.

From BBC

New research from scientists at the University of Minnesota sheds light on why this happens, showing how certain immune cells called macrophages remain locked in an inflammatory state as the body ages in preclinical models.

From Science Daily