Sentence examples for a locked gate from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a locked gate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a gate that is secured and cannot be opened without a key or code.
Example: "The park was closed for the night, and we were met with a locked gate that prevented us from entering."
Alternatives: "a secured gate" or "a closed gate".

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The language still seems like a locked gate.

And that's why the auctioneer added a locked gate, 24-hour armed guards and electronic surveillance.

The path by Mr. Geffen's estate is blocked by a locked gate.

In the 80-degree weather of yesterday morning, a dozen volunteers showed up to help; most encountered a locked gate.

Hundreds of Al-Ahly fans were driven into a narrow stadium exit where they were crushed against a locked gate.

Hundreds fled into the exit corridor, only to be crushed against a locked gate, their rivals attacking from behind.

Where the scrubby fields of central Gaza meet the Israeli border fence, there is a locked gate.

The brothel is an unprepossessing single-story white building, surrounded by a high chain-link fence and accessible only through a locked gate.

Migrants hoping to beat security at the French end of the Channel Tunnel have discovered how to get through a locked gate into the Eurotunnel complex.

It was 5am, pitch black, on a road in the middle of nowhere, and we were negotiating in Spanish with two armed men standing behind a locked gate.

A startling anachronism in downtown Sacramento, the mansion is separated from the street by a low iron fence with a locked gate.

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