padlock

Example Sentences

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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

Kelly Grigg, the owner of the centre at Winnard's Perch, said the bolt and padlock to one of its aviaries had been "hit with force".

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

No one had gone into the room again since they had taken Melquíades’ body out and had put on the door a padlock whose parts had become fused together with rust.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez