Sentence examples for be locked for from inspiring English sources

"We seem to be locked for eternity in a vicious commercial circle," Hebey wrote in 1965.

At 5 P.M. on the first day, just before the doors of Nassau Hall were to be locked for the night, a university administrator met with the group.

And phone customers outside the United States tend to have more handset choices, since cellphones are less likely to be "locked" for use with one particular carrier.

It spoke of a force all-powerful, in whose grip puny ships might be locked for years and the less fortunate receive their last embrace.

A group of brilliant artists were forced to be locked for months in the same office space as me - a fate worse than death.

"Your interest rates are going to be locked for only a certain period of time," he said, and the interest rate may fluctuate after that date.

Public buildings were locked for three hours.

Now I am locked for 7 days.

The door was locked for most of a quarter-century.

No director has yet been locked for the film adaptation.

Mr. Loeb has been locked for months in a proxy fight for control of Yahoo.