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"Locking" in a Sentence (11 examples)
Locking all the doors, I went to bed.
I remember locking the door.
The locking mechanism has jammed.
This is the first time I've ever left my car without locking its doors.
Why are you locking the door?
I am locking up the documents in the desk.
Don't bother locking the door.
My wife had already gone upstairs, and the sound of the locking of the hall door some time before told me that the servants had also retired.
I went to bed after locking all the doors and windows.
Prior to Prime Minister Conte locking down the country, many of the young dismissed the threat as overblown, and continued with carefree lives, going out at night and heading to bars and clubs.
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She had heard him, more than once, lock something up in one of the rooms—come out, and go into another room—wait there a few minutes—then return to the first room, with his keys in hand—and sharply turn the locks, and turn them again. […] [I]t was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence, and which tormented him with a sense of oppression, new to the experience of his later years.
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