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
But these giant mammals may offer today’s economy a new kind of value: an ability to safely lock away climate-warming carbon and to support ecosystems that do so on an even bigger scale.
From Scientific American • Apr. 24, 2023
The most they could do, however, was to lock away Harry’s spellbooks, wand, cauldron, and broomstick at the start of the summer break, and forbid him to talk to the neighbors.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
