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close with or as if with a tight seal
This vacuum pack locks in the flavor! -
place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
She locked her jewels in the safe
How To Use lock in In A Sentence
- The extractors eject the cartridge case and retain the breechblock in the fully open position.
- Come ten o'clock in the evening we've generally begun to stretch and yawn, and by ten thirty the house is quiet except for gentle snoring.
- It was six o'clock in the morning and we had just touched down in Karachi airport.
- And about 5 o'clock in the eavning we could see the Yankees a marchen up on the other side of the river by regiments and most all went back from on this Side of the river and General Earley thought that they was all a going back and taken all of his men but a Louisiana Bregaid and started to reinforce General Lea And about the time we had gone 6 miles they come The diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,
- D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs? Fiancée
- This unique gelling action enables the dressings to lock in exudate and its harmful components* (4,5,6). New In Vitro Study Data Shows Importance of Dressing Conformability to Action of...
- Here is a business that has shrieking fanatics lining up around the block in the middle of the night to buy its product.
- Objective To investigate the advantage of combined general anesthesia with sacral block in infant laparoscopic surgery.
- Papa couldn't butcher their milk cow and he had to keep the surviving roosters and hens to build a new flock in the new year.
- When that happens, we constantly lock in not just fat but what I call belly fat. CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2009
