lock up
Example Sentences
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Last night Ghazalian could not properly lock up Dialog Cafe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
"Without this decisive action, prisons will run out of space entirely as early as November and we will be unable to lock up serious offenders at all," they said.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The huge sums flooding into the sector are fueling a talent war as newly flush companies seek to lock up America’s scarce rare-earth technicians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Why lock up deodorant when a company could use that cash to pay their employees enough to stop living paycheck-to-paycheck?
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
“But it must be that—what else could be important enough to lock up in a fancy box?”
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
