[
US
/ənˈɫɑk/
]
[ UK /ʌnlˈɒk/ ]
[ UK /ʌnlˈɒk/ ]
VERB
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open the lock of
unlock the door - set free or release
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become unlocked
The door unlocked from the inside
How To Use unlock In A Sentence
- 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
- Such schemes help older homeowners to unlock money from their property without selling. Times, Sunday Times
- Police believe a gang of up to five men were responsible for a raid on a Melksham store in which hundreds of pounds were stolen from an unlocked office.
- Three cars forward the steward unlocks the kitchen, the pantryman begins to prepare bread and muffins, and Ashby's Tavern awakens for breakfast.
- McWilliams levelled his gun and Glennon pulled open the van's unlocked doors.
- The police required the traveler to unlock his suitcase.
- The man unlocked his old-fashioned, roll-top desk and took out a tin box. THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL
- This would provide delivery drivers with a one-time code letting them unlock your front door. Times, Sunday Times