Example Sentences

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It wasn’t: The NBA’s team owners were locking out the players.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2022

But as we were locking up our bikes recently, my partner said, “There’s your watch.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2021

“They were locking up a lot of people at the time, so we just had to change up,” Dorton said in the 2017 interview.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2019

Two days later, Button and her boyfriend rode their bikes to a restaurant in Crown Heights, and when they were locking them up she heard her cell phone vibrate inside her backpack.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019

It was late afternoon in early spring, the light was beginning to fade, and people on McDowell Street were locking up their shops and heading home.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls