Sentence examples for a lockdown in from inspiring English sources

Only one third of their required staff had turned up to a "lockdown" in Manchester.

He also dismissed reports that political instability in North Korea had prompted a lockdown in Pyongyang.

In early April, Rear Adm. John W. Smith Jr., the commander of the prison joint task force, ordered a predawn raid on the communal cell blocks, forcing all the detainees into a lockdown in separate cells.

The revelations are a blow to the country which at the weekend imposed a lockdown in a fishing district of Freetown because of a new suspected outbreak of the virus.

New Britain spent $13,000 on a lockdown in November at Central Connecticut State University caused by a student's Halloween outfit.

A lockdown remained in effect for hours after the shooting.

Some parents receive a text when a lockdown is in progress.

But in Malibu you can't just walk down the street and grab a coffee, it's the desert, anywhere is 20 miles away bare min. So what was once a studio in paradise now became a barricaded lockdown in hell.

The defendant, Mohamed Suleiman al Nalfi, a native of Sudan, "has been in basically a total lockdown" in the Metropolitan Correctional Center since Sept. 11, Mr. Jacobs told the judge.

In one part of his argument, Farah appeared to channel Arkansas GOP state Rep. Nate Bell, who last week tweeted in the midst of a citywide lockdown in Boston that, "Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine".

"The capital is set to witness a lockdown of sorts in the run-up to 26 January, with offices, arterial roads and metro stations closed for security," the Hindustan Times reports.