lock up
Example Sentences
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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
Cypress 3, Villa Park 0: Drew Slevcove threw the shutout with nine strikeouts to lock up the league championship.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Looking to tap in to the innovation, big drugmakers and investors are spending billions to lock up rights to promising Chinese-originated drug candidates like 3SBio’s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
At 6, he’d lock up and head home.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
So at last he saw Mr. Revere, a stocky, ruddy man, with fine, dark eyes, shutting his shop, taking out his key preparing to lock up.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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