How To Use Lock In A Sentence

Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
Which drugs become blockbusters is in many respects a lottery. Times, Sunday Times
They are now locked in a bitter custody battle over their three children.
I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.

I ` d like to see it minus bodywork to see if it ` s got smaller wheels than the big old hoops normal for the period, cos i reckon even tho the bodywork is quite wide, full lock would find large dia. wheels causing a few problems. 1930 Art Deco Henderson
McCarthy remains dismissive of the allegations and defensive of the former sergeant, saying he was "brutalized" by his colleagues, in particular, by a few senior officers "exerting locker room peer pressure" in the department ranks. MPNnow Home RSS
Marcus Aurelius's hair stands energetically up, a nimbus of corkscrewing locks, not a bit like the conventional signs for hair that plaster so many Roman marble crania. The Forever City
A couple of commendable but slight folk covers albums in the early Nineties lead to assertions of writer's block. The Sun
Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey
It literally unlocks the prejudice of so many people, and emancipates them from the dungeon of partial judgment. WHAT IS SAID, NOT WHO SAYS IT
We drove home in silence and, when he parked in our long driveway, I stopped to pluck some ixora flowers while Nnamabia unlocked the front door. Excerpt: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It's as if an angel made a divine appointment to show me what a kete of kindness can do for a flock of lost little lambs.
Such schemes help older homeowners to unlock money from their property without selling. Times, Sunday Times
That's when I noticed the little sticker on the window explaining the purpose of the ‘Child Safety Lock’.
She was so tired she came home and conked out at eight o'clock.
The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
All of a sudden St. Philip's ten bells start tanging - one oclock already - and at once the workshops and factories around the yard begin disgorging throngs of workers on their way to lunch
Meanwhile, Mr. Christie is taking the same tact in what he described as a "passionate" relationship with Mr. Sweeney, who has the power to single-handedly block bills. Christie, Sweeney in Standoff Over Funds
They are hired to crack a safe, photograph the contents of a locked briefcase inside, and return it to the owner without him knowing.
I mean, who doesn't want a product that is easier to use, has less locking contention, minimizes storage administration, makes access to administrative data easier, and so on?
Rocks block the highway in various places and mudflows cover what were once rose farms along the road's edge.
They dismiss concerns that some of the Africans who flocked to Libya under Mr. Gadhafi's policy of pan-Africanism might be subject to retribution.
Locked into declining industries and a shrinking public sector, unions have become ineffective. Times, Sunday Times
The Bedroom In The Sky is three-quarters windowed and the last window blocked off with a hardboard offcut insulated, floored, plasterboarded, plumbed and wired. April 1st, 2007
They drifted into the control room and floated above the sensor-generated hologram of the â€œherd. â€ The â€œherdâ€ consisted of approximately 3,000 mountain-sized blocks of ice that once were comet 2P/Encke. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
She suffered a cardiac arrest caused by a blocked heart artery. The Sun
The team apparently circumvented locked gates and an alarm system, while the sculpture was in the process of being moved to another location.
Your clock has a floating balance mechanism.
Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses.
As Locke and Jean stumbled to their feet, the door on the wall opposite the window slammed open, and in stepped a broad-shouldered man with the slablike muscles of a stevedore or a smith. Archive 2008-07-01
The architectonics of the sculpted locks, the author argues, augment their power to fend off sorcery and other malevolent forces.
And then it is all locked down in a code of omertà: Enron is a strong buy!
It shows fractured blocks of ancient sedimentary rock separated by recent sand dunes.
The couple have blocked access to the track, forcing horse owners to make a long and muddy detour across fields. Times, Sunday Times
Many shops and businesses were shut while crowds blocked traffic and chanted anti-government slogans. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly, when the starter button is pressed, along with the clutch pedal, the system recognises the transponder signal, releases the engine immobiliser and the steering lock, and the engine starts.
Conseco has no investment bankers, legal counsel, commercial bankers, or consultants doing business with the company on its board, nor are there any interlocking directorates.
The companion star would emit plenty of its own UV radiation, but this radiation would be blocked in the direction of Eta Carinae by the thick nebulosity of the giant star's surrounding gas, dust, and stellar wind.
Do you think Hillary wants to sit by and watch McCain appoint Supreme Court Justices, block universal health care, send more money to Iraq in exchange for body bags? McCain raises $21.5 million in May
From here, the nullah reaches the Punjab and Haryana boundary, near Shagun Hotel, where the outflow is now blocked.
I lived only two blocks from high school and grammar school, and there were baseball diamonds and football fields.
Most fault conditions will set a ABS fault code in the CAB (controller anti-lock brake), which can be retrieved to aid in fault diagnosis.
This also limits his ability to make downfield blocks on linebackers.
About 7 o'clock tonight, we had a whopping great thunderstorm with accompanying light show, and the flipping garage got flooded again!
Her father used to orchestrate proofs about evil as a way of persuading his flock to convert. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
The ensemble playing is lock tight, the soloists are eloquent; the seven pieces (five of them composed by group members) are literate and stimulating.
No, you plockit, no; and I will write your mother word you have proke Priscian's head four times this tay, since her letter came. Tales and Novels — Volume 04
However, it is clear that asbestos flock falls within that definition.
He always had a habit of going down on one knee to block shots, so I thought I could fake him out of position.
Is a kid the boss of his block because he carris the biggest club? Spitzer's Whore Should Not Make a Nickel
Oklahoma had an extra blocker ‘chip’ Wright and then move on to another defender more often than they double-teamed him outright.
Lisa called Malone at seven o'clock next morning, right on time; when she named a time, one could set the GPO clock by her. MURDER SONG
Don't be friends with bad boys. People think that birds of a feather flock together.
The clock stands on an oval marble base, enclosed by a glass dome.
Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop.
The randomization schedule was centrally generated by the study's sponsor, stratified by site and by using a fixed block size of 4.
In the first half maybe evern longer, his art was much more clean, smooth, and linear, whereas much later, he developed the blockier style of Kirby. Top 100 Comic Book Runs #30-26 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Zaheer bowled a good length in the final overs and got one right in the blockhole to shatter the stumps of Sami and after that Moin was clean bowled by Balaji and India won by 40 runs with Pakistan allout for 253. Archive 2004-03-01
The initial lift of the bar targets the lower back and thickens the erectors, the middle part of the lift widens the barn-door lats, and the squeeze and lockout at the top emphasize the upper back.
Alex leaned up against the locker near hers and waited patiently for her to stick her coat in the locker and get the padlock on and locked.
It's his own stupid fault his car was stolen?he should have kept it locked.
Hopefully you'll sort any hitches so the whole wedding runs like clockwork. The Sun
Some small villages in the northern Andes were left isolated as roads were blocked by slides.
Unfortunately, the locker room is full of private equity houses hoping to refloat gym club chains. Times, Sunday Times
‘We can forcibly remove the blockades if we are sure that there is enough evidence that the blockaders are illegal,’ he told the Post.
The chime of the clock woke him up.
Unfortunately, these birds fed in large flocks on fruit and other crops, and were shot in huge numbers by farmers.
The children were bedded at ten o'clock
Every single one of his intended blows was blocked and parried, even when the man tripped and fell backwards.
That's a 1990 Chambertin Clos de Bze you've got locked up in there like a... like a common Chianti. THE CALLIGRAPHER
But it Hoolock Wu Wen-mei first half of yellow, white and the lower body more and more vertical profile, wing spot and more white, more mottled waist and tail-heavy.
People feared the development would cause traffic gridlock and claimed noisy fans would make their lives a misery.
The contrail went straight up, bisecting the Sun, forcing the crowd to squint and awkwardly block the Sun to see the contrail.
Some programs also offer users a limited ability to decide for themselves which sites to block.
Engine immobilisers and sophisticated locks leave many careless owners carless.
Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187. Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
They have a smallholding in Devon which is home to a host of animals, including a flock of pedigree Black Welsh Mountain sheep.
In the split second that their gazes locked, that same prickly sensation consumed his mind as if the blood flow to his brain had suddenly been cut off.
a locker that usually contained paper, ink, and suchlike equipment
During this time, Lockhart met Moura Budberg, a Ukrainian-born baroness, who became the love of his life, and with whom, according to his son, he remained romantically involved until his death in 1970.
He was beginning to attract the attention of others in the locker room. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
He escaped a rolling road block by turning into the street where he lived, only to find it blocked by another police car. Times, Sunday Times
The original building consisted of a wide perimeter block bisected by a pair of transverse wings to form three narrow internal patios.
Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
The reform will make it more difficult for MPs to block legislation.
She was rarely astir later than 7 o'clock.
It has lockable drawers, leather-lined jewellery trays and a cheval mirror. Times, Sunday Times
After the clockwork of the watch was cleaned the watch kept perfect time.
The knot will keep the line from pulling through the turning block or fairlead. Sailing Fundamentals
Insert the key in/into the lock.
in a hurry to lock the door
Thousands of people flocked to the Malton Racing Stables Open Day, when 18 stables around Malton and Norton opened their doors to a fascinated public.
Sadly now the road is grid-locked most days, the factory is on the verge of closing, the picturesque view of what used to be a boathouse now appears to be a rubbish tip and no-one cares.
Trevor and Kenneth polka'd excitedly round her legs as she slotted the Yale into the lock. TICKLED PINK
I used to muzzleload, had a TC Hawkin flintlock, as heavy as that barrel is it would take alot to burst it, dunno if "modern" muzzleloaders are as hefty or not, but I assume they are just for product liability reasons. Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses
The actress is frequently locked into playing a stoic, good-natured sufferer with a look of passive resignation about her.
When a target is locked there is a radar beam position indication on the HUD.
Savers with a bundle of cash locked into a bond should have snapped them up. Times, Sunday Times
My best guess is if negotiations haven't got anywhere by the end of Eid, in other words towards the end of this week, then I think there will be a battle for Sirte, but not yet. ruled out the extradition of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi . The Guardian World News
The Olympic village ran like clockwork. The Sun
Now they know a two-pronged approach is needed: blocking the virus and rebuilding the damaged immune system.
Once the IBM Cognos service is stopped and started, all new IBM Cognos Query Studio reports will now use the global template and display the title block as yellow.
They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.
Goldstone - mode may condense in the color - flavor - locked ( CFL ) phase matter.
Even pieces of rags were shoved into the gaps peeping through the corners of its locked door.
This paradox arises either through the blocking of memory, or under oppressive regimes through torture and fear of the consequences of testifying.
He inserted the key in the lock but could not open the door.
The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
Its wealth depended on the scientists who worked in a large lab behind the administrative block.
Verity, in her high heels and straight skirt, tripped over the blocks Ben had thrown out of his playpen.
The agents transform isolated software applications into modular building blocks for creating a coherent networked system.
She reached the doors of the college cafeteria, slamming them behind her and locking the door. Times, Sunday Times
Light signalling pathways from both phytochrome and cryptochrome photoreceptors regulate clock components to achieve entrainment in plants.
The police blocked off the street where the gunman was hiding.
Scott is heading for a CD prize after clocking up perfect days for all of this half-term.
While a great comfort on long or rough rides, there are some situations where a fully locked differential is a benefit.
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It seemed to be locked on to some invisible beam that was projecting from out of June's vagina.
On October 11, some 60,000 unionized grocery workers at 852 stores in southern California went on strike or were locked out of their jobs.
The new accommodation block has all but masked the original building.
There are two large weights hung from pulleys behind the clock.
It would have hardstandings for six caravans for the travelling families, along with two toilet and shower blocks.
It was George who first proposed that we dry clothes in that locker.
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.
Two blocks beyond our school was a field where boys played football.
Turn the clock face to the wall. Beat Jet Lag - arrive alert and stay alert
In the 1950s, the great and the good - the people who really knew what was in the best interests of the lower orders - decided to bulldoze the slums and decant people into tower blocks.
Heavy double doors closed with amplified loud scraping before a final crash as they came together and locked.
We didn't commit to any blocking and did the 13-hour drive to Winnipeg learning the lines.
The entrepreneur of eye avant-courier has been her lock surely in eye shot.
French Alphabet Blocks -- complete with letters, numbers and animal pictures in Jules | Permalink Jules
‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
The river blockaded the spread of the forest fire.
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It's like a silent alarm ringing on a carefully coded genetic clock.
It overlooked an alley, and the bay windows were sun-blocked by the townhouse at 93.
To make your life a sound structrure that will serve others and fulfil your own potential, you have to remember that strength, however massive , can't endure unless it has the interlocking supprt of others. Go it alone and you'll inevitably tumble.
She heard him curse softly and then he shifted his wait, effectively blocking her attempt at freedom.
Communications among individuals are often blocked legally by governments and illegally by enterprises to protect competitive advantages.
The procedure, called CABG (pronounced "cabbage"), is performed to help restore blood flow in patients with blocked arteries. Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal
I planted three hemlocks years ago to form a sight block from our driveway to our back yard.
The type of damage being done to the cars ranges from wing mirrors being snapped off to glue being put in locks and tyres being slashed, with victims facing bills of hundreds of pounds.
It is early evening, but the sky is prematurely dark; thunderheads have blocked the last rays of the sun.
He had to bring forward an 11 o'clock meeting so that he could get to the funeral on time.
Festoons of golden rope hung like blonde locks from one of the balconies.
He was the talisman, the cog in the clockwork that made the whole mechanism function.
It should already be clear that it was Mariana, rather than Suarez, who might be called the forebear of John Locke's theory of popular consent and the continuing superiority of the people to the government. LewRockwell.com
If the defender is in front or alongside the shooter, the ball is very exposed for a block.
Apparently he didn't appreciate my efforts because suddenly he jumped to his feet and reverted back to his blockhead ways.
The blocks are covered in dense comic art that reminds me of the Sergio Argones marginalia in MAD Magazine -- a million zillion sight gags on the theme of "Oh God the baby is coming to destroy us all! Boing Boing
The crowd is chock-a-block with people who like all kinds of music, and there are only very few acts that can cater for such an assorted group of people.
Evergreen plants, including dwarf conifers such as hemlocks, junipers, pines, and spruces, can form a backbone to anchor the design of a rock garden.
Procedures that were set up to expose and correct dishonesty were themselves blocked or shown to be inefficient.
Formula One, by contrast, runs in a clockwise direction and only uses part of the oval.
Walsh should have mentioned the remarkable physiognomic similitude of Harris and Pollock.
When data is fed into input, D1 and a clock pulse given, the data moves along one place.
Last year, the Iranian government blocked five million websites for having allegedly pornographic content and disseminating impendent news information to the public. Media Repression in Iran
Does anyone plan to plant trees as a hedgerow to block the wind?
I stand on a wood block to lower the bar even farther, then pull it deep into my midsection, again squeezing for a three-count.
In 1974 he published the definitive book on the history of carriage clocks. Times, Sunday Times
As soon as she was alongside and made fast I went on board and had a good look at her interior, not forgetting to inscribe my name legibly on the most conveniently situated locker in the midshipmen's berth, after which I watched the operation of shipping and stowing her ballast. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
By the time the sloop's deck was perpendicular, we had unbent the boom-lift from below, made it fast to the wharf, and, with the other end fast nearly to the mast-head, heaved it taut with block and tackle. SMALL-BOAT SAILING
That's when I stopped what I was doing, got out of bed and brained the one in the red pyjamas with my alarm clock.
He blocked errant pitches in the dirt, expertly framed borderline tosses, turning them into strikes and worked masterfully with pitchers.
It was six o'clock in the morning and we had just touched down in Karachi airport.
The back garden is partially railed and partially fenced and has a block constructed shed.
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,
Obviously, not all spam filters work that well, but this seems like a really odd choice as a way to block spam.
Three centuries ago, Londoners flocked to the site to sup from the health-giving St Chad's Well. 10 of the best pubs in London
You cannot put back the clock.
Failure to approve them in a vote this week could block the next tranche of €3 billion from international creditors. Times, Sunday Times
Some days she was listless, propped up facing the window, watching sunlight clock across the valleyed bedclothes. Spin
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
He looked at the clock: one forty.
The issue could be eased if retailers used systems which blocked out at least some numbers on credit card receipts, or systems to destroy spare counterfoils after use.
'It must be -- eight o'clock,' said the gasping voice -- '_eight o'clock_;' and the tone became a whisper, as though the idea thus half involuntarily revealed had been drawn jealously back into the strongholds of consciousness. Robert Elsmere
He is chipping away at a block marble with a chisel.
All Father Damien could do at first was contemplate the pattern of the flock out of which the great logos of his passion was written. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
Everything takes much longer, as too many people are boarding at any one time and blocking the aisles near the prime seats.
(Bush and Dr Cheney legacy), not just lock it up in cupboards. another inspiration for my writing is this innovative musician and activist fighting racism, Islamo-phobia and injustice head on through his "Rhythm and beats". although his documentaries and DIY cook book music genre are termed irreverence bordering treason against queen and country and glorifying terrorism among the Pakistani and Muslim youth of Britain, But it is merely exposing the truth about the sentiments of equality, discrimination, integration and assimilation. Pak Tea House
He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
In some cases, such as when the swollen epiglottis blocks the windpipe, a tracheostomy may be performed.
By putting up the fence, are you blocking out the view of a wonderful tree in a neighbouring plot, or perhaps a church spire in the distance? Times, Sunday Times
Only the most resistant blocks remain behind. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
One of the league's best blocking fullbacks and an improving runner, Christian missed the final two games in 1998 and all of the playoffs after tearing the ACL and MCL in the same knee.
Other prescription drugs, including tricyclic antidepressants, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers and anticonvulsants, are taken regularly to prevent frequent and disabling migraines.
The flock receives virtually no historical background from its shepherd - who is believed to be the definitive authority on such matters.
The developers are also looking to build a 204 room aparthotel on the upper floors of three of the blocks.
Despite all our attempts to break it open, the lock would not yield.
The latest round of trouble came as BP's billionaire partners in TNK-BP, who operate under the name Alfa Access Renova, sought to block a $16 billion share swap and Arctic exploration deal agreed with Rosneft in January. A Tale of Two Partners
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...
There was a smack, then the sound of a door closing and locking.
Rapping the knife with a baton, split a thin shingle from the side of a dry wood block. Basic Knife Skills by Field & Stream's Keith McCafferty
It was already nearly eight o'clock.
This gave an unblended, block finish. The Sun
Mum sounded very alarmed and distressed and told me to lock the doors. The Sun
This discovery led to the invention of the pendulum and various timepieces such as the Grandfather clock, but at the time Galileo could not explain it.

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