How to Use lockdown in a Sentence

lockdown

noun
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  • Lots of cooks and creatives left the city, at least in the thick of lockdowns.
    — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 3 May 2024
  • At the time, Shanghai was in the midst of a two-month Covid lockdown.
    — Laura He, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
  • East High School was placed on lockdown in the wake of the shooting.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • No shots were fired and the school did not enter a lockdown.
    — Alex Malm, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Was that as much the case this time as during lockdown?
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The pandemic lockdown kept Starr off the road for two years.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
  • Things felt eerily similar to the first few days of the Covid lockdown.
    — Mira Ptacin, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The school went on lockdown and the campus was cleared by police to ensure the male was not on the campus.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The data shows the effect of the Covid lockdowns and weak recovery last year.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024
  • On Covid lockdown policies that kept children out of school, the time to pay the piper has arrived.
    — Pradheep J. Shanker, National Review, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The back of the heel is cradled instead by a snug heel collar, which is good for heel lockdown.
    — Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Jail staff placed the alleged inmate, a 35-year-old, on lockdown.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Still, with lockdown closer Evan Phillips emerging from the bullpen, the lead appeared to be safe.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
  • The lockdown was lifted around 2:30 p.m., and the school planned to dismiss students as normal.
    — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The school was put on lockdown even though students had the day off and the suspect was taken to the hospital.
    — cleveland, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The next challenge could require the Bruins to reach a new level of lockdown.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In the beginning, the group agreed to go into complete lockdown as a pod.
    — Kayla Levy, Curbed, 6 Feb. 2025
  • And then the Panthers stayed true to their typical brand of lockdown defense in the third to hold off the Oilers.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024
  • After lockdown, the world opened up for the lucky laptop workers.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Like so many, Emily and her husband, Matt, were in lockdown.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Pete DeBoer’s Stars are one of the best lockdown teams in hockey.
    — Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 1 Feb. 2025
  • But covid-era lockdowns sent the legion of state workers home, and the city’s rocket petered out.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
  • But the evening became the starting point for a wider project about young people, lockdown and mental health.
    — Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Accepting the agent’s challenge, Li spent the lockdown year churning out a draft.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
  • There should be a 9/11-type commission that dissects the pros and cons of the lockdown for public perusal.
    — Readers, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Shortly after, the prison staff put us all on lockdown for almost one week.
    — Billie Allen, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • If her centerstage persona took off during lockdown, Mutant;Destrudo might point to the birth of a new era.
    — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Brooks had gotten a call from her surviving son that his high school, just blocks from The Covenant School, was on lockdown.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The Mariners cruised to the Division II quarterfinals behind hot shooting and lockdown defense.
    — Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The declaration called for relaxing measures like lockdowns to control the spread of the virus to build up immunity in the population as quickly as possible while protecting the most vulnerable, like the elderly.
    — Rob Stein, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025

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