Sentence examples for are in lockdown from inspiring English sources
But it's a coy version of nature where the animals are in lockdown and the technical means of their captivity must also be veiled.
This is how people in the city can tell it's fall: Stretches of the East 40s are in lockdown, police officers giddily calculate the overtime they will collect and protest groups of assorted stripes get their signs ready.
Dorries remains blissfully cut off from the furore as she and other participants, who include the EastEnders actor Charlie Brooks and former world darts champion Eric Bristow, are in "lockdown" before the show, meaning they are barred from any communication with the outside world.
Even Fritz Lang at his most fatalistic, in films like "Scarlet Street" (1945) and "Human Desire" (1954), allowed his heroes some freedom, if only the freedom to fall for the wrong dame, but Lanthimos's characters are in lockdown from the start.
With the economy continuing to head south, corporate information technology budgets are in lockdown.
On April 15th, when a group of Taliban guerrillas seized buildings in Kabul and started firing on embassies, the U.S. Embassy sent out an e-mail saying that the compound was "in lockdown".
Romano said the youth is "in lockdown" at York's mental health unit for 22-23 hours daily in order to keep her separated from others.
The embassy is in lockdown status".
We were in lockdown until further notice.
