Sentence examples for be in lockdown from inspiring English sources
France may seem to be in lockdown from outside, but it isn't.
The Priestley residential care home next door to the library on Market Street was thought to be in lockdown.
All protests have been banned during the runup to the Olympics, and the city will be in lockdown with only accredited vehicles allowed to enter.
Two months ago, the group's category-B Thameside prison was the subject of critical report by the chief inspector of prisons, found to be in "lockdown" after failing to cope with a violent, internal gang culture.
A traumatised Paris will be in lockdown this week as more than 140 world leaders, including Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping of China, fly into the city for the start of two weeks of climate change negotiations that the UN hopes will lead to a historic new global deal to reduce carbon emissions.
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.
