padlock
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At one point during his talk, an image flashed on the screen behind him of its Muse mascot embracing a blue padlock.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The first and only response to that invitation was to ask him to put a padlock on the door to the storage room full of boxed documents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Not necessarily a designer one, but a handbag with a strong sense of itself — an acid-green baguette bag, a wicker orb with a padlock, a cheetah-print apothecary satchel.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
Slouchy and decorated in padlock hardware, Chloé’s certified it-girl bag is my dream silhouette.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
The door was secured by a padlock, but John-go-in-the-Wynd managed to get in through the granary window.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
Inspired by a trend in Paris, couples attached metal padlocks and threw the keys into the East River.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Sensing my interest in the cluster of irregular towers, he stood up, produced a large key ring and began opening a series of padlocks.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Hamburg fans chained six padlocks to the goal and netting at half-time, three locks to either post at one end, with the padlocks having to be cut off before play could resume.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2024
There’s also a large metal “Love” sign at the visitors’ center, where people attach padlocks engraved with names and messages of love.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Most of them looked as if it had been a long time since they’d been opened, and heavy padlocks hung in front of some of them.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
Sindorf left in May 2024 but padlocked the unit behind him, preventing Vivos from taking possession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
But residents can no longer view the bright autumn colours of the tree of life, a symbol often painted by Behzad, as the wooden door has been padlocked shut.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
In March, the clinic doors had been padlocked for two weeks when she developed vomiting and diarrhea.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
The theater hit on hard times: The IRS padlocked the doors in the mid-1960s, the school itself shut down in 1969 and lost its campus to bankruptcy in 1970.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
Every crate must be padlocked, every transport manifest kept in a secure place.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Instead of abruptly padlocking our door, as most restaurants do, we’d give everyone four months’ notice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025
And a law that was passed primarily with climate protesters in its sights, who have taken to gluing themselves to roads and padlocking themselves to this, that and the other.
From BBC ● May 9, 2023
“It would be a terrible shame if someone were to buy it and then start padlocking it. They’ve done so much work to it, it’s quite amazing,” Bell & Co.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
But most of the stores were closed and the owners had pulled the metal gates down over the front windows and doors, padlocking them shut.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
