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secure by locking
lock up the house before you go on vacation -
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 up In A Sentence
- The centerpiece of that strategy is the use of minor infractions as pretexts to lock up suspects on whom the government lacks sufficient evidence to accuse them of more serious crimes.
- Lock up all drugs and medicines securely in a bathroom cabinet where they can't be reached.
- They will have to block up the entrance to the tunnel.
- It was an easy way for society to lock up girls who were ‘frivolous, sinful and feeble-minded.’
- I translated this as a mad desire to lock up every single person with HIV.
- Is it any wonder that we now have to lock up churches after morning Masses, even in the quiet rural countryside.
- Lock up the women and children - the lion is loose!
- Would the madness lock up my tongue in riddles and then be no use at all? Blackbird Pie « A Fly in Amber
- With changes to Queensland's licensing system from July 1 2007, parents are being urged to help their learner drivers clock up the required 100 hours of supervised practice.
- You will have to block up the wheel of the car to change the tire.