lock - use in sentences

Object

  • door: Fire officers had to force a locked door to rescue Danielle, who left the house without her son.
  • horn: But Danny in charge means the con gets messy, so he keeps locking horns with Mickey.
  • gate: A locked gate at the front leads to a passage by the side of the house where there are two rainwater butts.
  • cvars: ETPro, at time of writing anyway, does not further restrict any locked cvars, with the exception of those relating to tracers.
  • nut: Locking wheel nuts require a dedicated adaptor to remove them.
  • mechanism: But most innovative of all is the unique locking mechanism which prevents tool blades from folding during use.

Converse of object

  • steer: Steering lock on the left side of the headstock.
  • pick: That way, no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they're always locking three of them. !

Adjective modifier

  • key-operated: Standard features include green felt shingles to the roof and a quality key-operated door lock.
  • bottom: Emerging out of the railroad tunnel we approach the bottom lock of the six Ashted locks that will take us up to Aston Junction.

Modifies a noun

  • keeper: We had crossed the Severn and Gloucester Canal several times and watched the lock keeper open the lock gates manually for a pleasure yacht.
  • gate: The vertical post farthest from the hanging point of a lock gate.
  • chamber: The south side of the lock chamber is more or less intact.
  • cottage: The design of lock cottages often gives canals a particular identity.

Noun used with modifier

  • mortice: Side doors in detached garages should be fitted with a quality mortice lock to BS 3621 standard.
  • mutex: Public Member Functions void acquire ( ) const; Attempts to acquire the internal mutex lock.
  • staircase: Double Lock A two-rise staircase lock or normal locks placed side by side to increase traffic capacity.
  • rim: Thinner doors will be weakened by fitting mortice locks, so robust deadlocking rim locks should be used.
  • door: Once in place the Home security sliding doors lock prevents an intruder forcing the doors open no matter how determined.

Preposition: in

  • cupboard: No, they're locked in the cupboard to starve for a day, perhaps two.

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