The airlocksopened at a touch on the operating handles.
Yves Jacquemont said that would be where theairlocks would go.
The airlocks were naturally arranged for the greatest possible safety under normal conditions.
There were a dozen or more small airlocks in various parts of the hull, besides the great door to admit supply ships.
It was not quite two miles from the Star Queen when its emergency airlocks opened and spacesuited figures plunged out of it to emptiness.
When the last passenger entered the big ship--a little girl--the airlocks disconnected and the lift-ship pulled swiftly away.
There was a steady trailing of moon-jeeps from the airlocks of Lunar City to the ship.
With airlocks to permit entrance and exit, they were inhabitable.
There were airlocks at their bases and dust-covered tunnels connecting them, and radar-bowls about their sides.
They opened the airlocks to pass through the manufacturing center, and then into the airless launching pad.
Operations officers began connecting portable power systems to various parts of the complex to reestablish the lights and get the airlocksworking again.
Went through one of the airlocks into the building portion here, where we are now, and just explored.
While the ship sentries were on their futile search, he ran from ship to ship, jumped into the open airlocks and worked quickly with pliers and a screwdriver.
It had seeped through the barracks, the warehouses and into the open airlocks of ships, while dying men tried frantically to close those locks.
There were dead sentries and sprung airlocks that might be discovered.
To attempt to reach the Hyperion and to escape in one of her lifeboats would have been useless; they could not have forced the great gates of the main airlocks and no other exits existed.
The massive doors of theairlocks opened, and while the full crew of picked men hurried aboard with their personal equipment, Samms talked earnestly to the two scientists in the control room.
Now a steady stream of pressure-suited men crossed through the airlocks into the crippled vessel, marched back with packing cases full of tape records, microfilm spools, stored computer data .
The airlocks are guarded," Johnny said, "and if they tumble to the ventilator shafts, they can smoke us out in no time.
There was a brief ceremony of farewell, the doors of the airlockswere closed, the careful check-out was gone through, and the driving projectors of the Sirius lifted both great vessels up the shaft, slowly and easily.
Then, running hand in hand toward the huge space-cruiser, they were snatched apart and drawn up toward the double airlocks of the main entrance.
The great elevator shafts were closed by airlocks every 2,000 feet.
While the airlocks were operating Mich'l stepped to a telucid and gave the agreed-on signal.
Cheng: It was, but the Regina airlocks were more effectively blockaded to us than at the other cities.
Repeat: the government is checking airlocks at all cities.
We blockaded the airlocks fast, so most of the others are probably still in the city, but we don't have any idea where to look for them.
Phobos was setting for the first time that night when Dark reached the great hulk of Ultra Vires, manipulated one of the airlocks and entered its dark corridors.
We have monitored reports that the government is checking airlocks at all cities.
He didn't give any instructions for getting into the building, but they seem to have locked these airlocks by remote control so they can't be operated.
I believe you said there aren't any guards on the airlocks to stop one from walking out at night?
They've picked up some men at the airlocks and others on the roads at several cities, and even Martian law won't permit you to uproot those people and send them to Mars City just on suspicion.
They could loot with impunity and all contamination must remain outside the suits, and on their return to their ships they would simply stand in the airlocks while corrosive gases swirled around them, killing any possible organism of disease.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "airlocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
