Example Sentences

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She registered with the state of Texas, renovated her living room, and installed a self-locking fence.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2023

My building has cameras all over the place, from the parking garage to the elevators to the laundry room, as well as self-locking doors, and these should be standard on all apartment buildings.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2018

Thanks to a self-locking mechanism, people will leave them literally anywhere, cluttering sidewalks and public spaces.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2018

The owner said he left for the night after showing Pitino and Sypher how to get out through a self-locking door.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2010

In a second form of self-locking thread, the thread on the bolt is made of the usual V-shape United States standard.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua