Editorial »

How to use the word lock-down in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

9 results found

It would be a pretty incredible thing, there’s a lot of good players in this league, a lot of receivers I’ve got a ton of respect for, so it would be very cool. The most important thing is that we win the game, lock down the division title and be ready to move into the playoffs here, but it would be a very cool thing because of the respect I have for the players in this league and the talent that there is. It’s a tough thing to do.

Yet Kupp

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have the tools to fight this virus, including Omicron, and we're in a very different and stronger place than we were a year ago and there is no need to lock down.

Jeff Zients

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Democrats lock down the economy, pay people not to work, raise your taxes, and now want to give illegal immigrants $450,000 checks paid for by American taxpayers, our bill would make sure the Attorney General can’t unilaterally make that happen.

Jim Jordan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was our defense, when we lock down defensively, I feel like we're one of the best defensive teams in the NBA.

Miles Bridges

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There should be the same urgency to vaccinate when you don't have Covid because it's just a matter of time, and we know the social and economic impact when you have to lock down and mass test as a response.

Dale Fisher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is a kind of balance between how much you lock down to save lives and at what point you ease.

Colin Coleman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

[The] travel restrictions will be enforced in accordance with the lock-down region imposed by the Chinese Government.

Wan Azizah

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have reoriented our sales energy and team toward actually local sponsorships, where before they were trying to find someone who could host 30 events and we were trying to lock down those deals, now what they are doing is they are trying to find cool breweries and they are trying to find cool spirit companies, cool micro-green producers, cool glassware companies, interesting artists.

This Entrepreneur

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

ADX itself has ... become almost entirely a 'lock-down' facility in which prisoners are locked in solitary cells for all but a few hours a week.

Amnesty International

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for lock-down? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Word of the Day

    Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

    Please enter your email address:



    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Definitions.net

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    a small contrasting part of something
    A omphalos
    B collation
    C maculation
    D callathump