Example Sentences

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Fifa needs to prevent something called deadlocking, which happens when it is no longer possible to complete the draw while following the regulations.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

Jurors could not agree on a verdict on her allegations, deadlocking 8-4 in favor of conviction.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2023

The judge instructed them to deliver the partial verdict, which acquitted Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta while deadlocking on the charges against Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

It fell one vote short, deadlocking at 7 to 7.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2022

My mother was asleep; she was as deadlocking as a red-gray old sea-elephant stretched on the shore of a summer day.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner