lock away
Example Sentences
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Together, these ecosystems lock away roughly 100 gigatonnes of carbon.
From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026
Her trauma isn’t just something she can neatly lock away, she says.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2024
The U.S. government last week announced its first research grants for soaking up carbon dioxide in the ocean, a geoengineering approach that would lock away atmospheric carbon and blunt global warming.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 13, 2023
Unlike this type of land-based carbon storage, ocean and coastal ecosystems can lock away carbon for millennia.
From Scientific American • Apr. 24, 2023
The story of his number was one I’d lock away in a room and write on the door of that memory The End.
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
