padlock

Example Sentences

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Plastic sheeting is taped across all the windows and there's a large padlock hanging on the door handle.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 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

He had gone into the store before lunch to get some things he needed, and in his hurry he had forgotten to fasten the padlock.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien