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Example sentences for "locked"

Lexicographically close words:
lochia; lochs; loci; locis; lock; locker; lockers; lockes; locket; lockets
  1. She then stepped further into the room, and the foreigner shut and double-locked the door.

  2. Going to make me fortune,' replied Andy boldly, as he dropped the violin into its case and latched the cover tightly, as if a secret were locked in.

  3. Nothing of all this property was locked up: a latch on the door sufficed.

  4. Something even of the eloquent gift of old Colonel Hathorne seemed to be locked within him, like a precious heirloom rarely shown; for in England, where his position called for speech-making, he acquitted himself with brilliant honor.

  5. The subject had been one of the earliest themes of meditation with Hawthorne, and he wrote as with a fountain-pen in which was locked the fluid thought of a lifetime.

  6. Frequently his meals were brought and left at his locked door, and it was not often that the four inmates of the old Herbert Street mansion met in family circle.

  7. Then when I got the swag, Ginetta locked the door and got out again by the oven.

  8. Carlos Herrera, on the other hand, as soon as he was locked into his cell and found himself alone, began pacing it to and fro like the polar bear in his cage.

  9. Instead of a locked and bolted door, the entrance is only closed by a mat, having nothing to be stolen; and for bedsteads they have only a few billets covered by a mat; yet some have hangings of mats, especially about their beds.

  10. The 19th we descried land, which seemed many islands, locked as it were into one, in lat.

  11. At the end of an hour he returned, passed on through to the diplomatist's private office, sat down in front of the locked safe again, and set the dial at thirty-six.

  12. I closed and locked the door of the safe myself; I know that it was locked.

  13. The Venezuelan answer is locked in the safe at the legation; I will know what it is within forty-eight hours.

  14. Last night after I locked the safe door I tried it to make certain that it was locked.

  15. When I entered the house I had locked a man in the cellar.

  16. They were both locked inside; and there were no marks of any sort on the sills.

  17. Throttled your guard at the front door, took him down cellar and locked him in the coal-bin," replied Mr. Grimm tersely.

  18. If any person speaks to him before he is locked up, take that person in charge also.

  19. Miss Howes being certain that her bag was locked made the theft seem that of an expert, who was provided with keys.

  20. I really did not take one good breath there, so vivid is my recollection of the horrible days when high walls and locked doors meant imprisonment.

  21. Twenty minutes later I was in my sitting room, the door locked for fear of intrusion, and tearing open one after another with the hunger of curiosity.

  22. Wesson, good naturedly, when he had closed the door and, at my suggestion, locked it.

  23. I locked my trunk after that, but said nothing about the loss.

  24. I put that package in my pocket, shut and locked the trunk, and was preparing to quit the room when I heard a turn at the handle of the door.

  25. He locked the door after him, but I have managed to work it open again.

  26. And the mother was fretting for him always; and she shut up his room and locked it, that no one could go in.

  27. And it is what you will ask her, to open my room that she has locked up for a day and a night.

  28. So he was locked up; and in the evening the butler brought him in his supper.

  29. Sydney Grey was locked up by his tender mother as securely as Mr Hope's prisoner; and all the boy's efforts to break the door availed only to bruise him full as seriously as the mob would have done.

  30. Thou knowest that a strange trouble hath entered this house--thou knowest, for thine eye seeth beneath the face into the heart, as the sun shines into a locked chamber at noon.

  31. At all times when he is not present the safe is locked and a military guard is on duty outside the only door.

  32. Men, women and children are locked into barns and burned alive.

  33. And she--poor innocent--she locked herself up when he'd gone and cried and cried and cried till the poor heart of her was broke entirely.

  34. Her brown hands were locked tightly around her knees.

  35. With tenderness and love Alice arranged the coverlid over the body and locked the door and went in search of help to prepare the old woman for burial.

  36. Good morning," and the two men locked arms and went away.

  37. Come away or else you'll be locked up," repeated Mr. Grummit.

  38. Why don't you go and get a summons and have her locked up?

  39. To ask me to shun the fight like a coward; to ask me to go and hide in the rear-ranks in a hotel with everything locked up, or a Coffer Pallis with nothing to steal.

  40. Brother Burge turned, and bolting into his room clapped the door to and locked it.

  41. Then the other two left him, and went back to the prison where a soldier locked them in, and when the rest heard what had happened they did some talking.

  42. It came down moaning across the dark pines, crisping the land-locked harbour where two big warships lay, and when they stood on the pebbles there was a clear ringing of bugles.

  43. The sultan has three sons and two daughters, who live with him in this cage, the doors of which are locked at night, and the keys brought to him, so that he remains free from any fear of attack.

  44. They were also asked, how the women were kept; if they were locked up as the moorish women, or allowed to go freely abroad.

  45. These prisoners, by day, were occupied on various tasks; at night they were locked into subterranean dungeons.

  46. Not long ago the gates between the different quarters of the city used to be locked every night at nine o'clock, and the merchant who went out to dine in another part of the town had to lodge with his host.

  47. I am locked in the house and my arms are bound to my sides.

  48. At any rate, during the short time they were locked up there, they managed to loosen two of the bars so they could be removed during the night.

  49. But for that we should not have known you were there, and you would have been locked up in the building until Monday morning.

  50. The men, he said, had escaped from the Carlin jail within a day or two of being locked up, and it was now clear that they had not been recaptured, but had made their escape to New York.

  51. The doors are locked so the officer will have to come prepared to force his entrance through the area gate or one of the windows.

  52. Bulger and Parker were locked up in an outhouse to await the arrival of the constable, while the money was taken into the house and displayed before the astonished eyes of the ladies.

  53. The store was then locked up by the porter and all hands separated for their homes.

  54. Besides, the house appears to be locked up from the outside, or was until you came and got in.

  55. The charge was made against the man, who gave his name as Jack Hurley, and he was locked up pending his removal to the Tombs prison.

  56. The long evenings of winter time Father Vassily passed in solitude with the idiot, imprisoned together with him in the white cage of pine log walls and ceiling, as though locked in a shell.

  57. But still is the corpse and its tightly locked lips are dispassionately guarding the secret of Eternity.

  58. But not a soul was to be seen either in the windows or about the house and the shop was locked with a ponderous iron padlock.

  59. Once more thou hast locked the doors of my prison, O Man!

  60. He had learned to crawl in the beginning of the spring, and frequently on returning home Father Vassily found him on the threshold, sitting motionless like a dog before the locked door.

  61. She now believes in his death and she is conscious of the nauseating odor, but her eyes are locked to tears and there is no voice in her throat.

  62. In his belief, the only possible means to prevent Clarice from running away with Piers was to keep her either in his sight or locked up when out of it.

  63. Clarice knew neither why he locked her in, nor why he gave over doing so.

  64. All his weight hung upon the fingers which were locked about that brass disk in a grip which even the powers of Darkness could not relax.

  65. An odour of incense pervaded the house, coming from the doctor's study, wherein he had locked himself early in the evening, issuing instructions that he was not to be disturbed.

  66. Lord Lashmore's door was locked and so was that of the boudoir.

  67. Cairn stood up and began to pace about the room, his hands locked behind him.

  68. A tremendous secret was locked up within the heart of Dr.

  69. Cairn's face was very stern and Sime, with his hands locked behind him, stood staring out of the window into the palmy garden of the hotel.

  70. Cairn had evidently been preparing them in the locked study.

  71. Lashmore stood on the rug before the fireplace, with his hands locked behind him and his head lowered, looking out under his tufted eyebrows at Dr.

  72. But after he had left her the Queen went into her privy closet and fast locked herself in.

  73. Further, the door was locked behind him, and, the moment he was in, keeping a casual but alert eye on the pacing Hannibal, he reiterated his order to lock the door and remove the key.

  74. But that was all the information concerning the ship's navigation he could steal; for Captain Doane took the observations and worked them out, to the exclusion of the mate, and Captain Doane always methodically locked up his chart and log.

  75. He knew the game, and could conquer the most refractory lion with a broom-handle--not outside the cage, but inside and locked in.

  76. Oh, except that it was nailed down, or locked up, or had a policeman standing guard over it.

  77. Del Mar had disappeared the moment he had locked the door, and the two men in the wagon, which was now bouncing along over the cobblestones, were strangers.

  78. She locked the bureau again and went out through the door and down the stairs.

  79. The locked doors, the evidence of a struggle in the room, the bloody hand print, all pointed conclusively to foul play.


  80. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "locked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.