locked on
Example Sentences
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“She looked up at me, nodded, and as her huge, sad eyes locked on to mine, she said in a quiet voice: ‘But, Carlos, my husband is in love with his valet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
At the same time, he thinks he has locked on to a reason for why he has been struggling for much of the time at Ferrari and wants to make it public.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
Once locked on its target, it rams it with minimal human intervention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025
Brad Lander and a handful of other Democrats spoke, too, but every camera, including mine, stayed locked on Mamdani.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025
It felt like that: the earth juddered, and Mr. Dandy fell, would have fallen into the darkness, but he caught hold of the fallen headstone, threw his arms about it and locked on.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
