all locked up

ADJECTIVE

inevitable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

imminent impending inescapable inexorable irresistible necessary unavoidable undeniable

STRONG

binding doomed pat

WEAK

assured compulsory decided decreed destined determined fated fateful fixed for certain foreordained in the bag ineluctable ineludible inflexible irrevocable no ifs ands or buts obligatory ordained prescribed settled sure unalterable unpreventable without recourse

Antonyms

STRONGEST

avoidable distant escapable later

WEAK

doubtful fortuitous preventable uncertain unlikely unsure

Example Sentences

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Beyond Freeman, the rest of Atlanta’s dynamic infield — Ozzie Albies, Austin Riley and Dansby Swanson — is all locked up for next season.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021

Beyond Freeman, the rest of Atlanta's dynamic infield — Ozzie Albies, Austin Riley and Dansby Swanson — is all locked up for next season.

From Fox News • Nov. 3, 2021

“We were all locked up in different places talking to each other.”

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021

“I’m searching the whole hospital for my size, but they’re all locked up now. They’re like gold.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2020

But as I sat there thinking these things, it occurred to me that a person couldn’t stay all locked up in the house like Phoebe and her mother had tried to do at first.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

all locked up

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