Sentence examples for brief lockdown from inspiring English sources
The school was placed on a brief lockdown.
A brief lockdown on the University of Central Florida campus Tuesday over unconfirmed reports of someone with a gun was partially prompted by a student calling 911 after she and her friend saw a Muslim woman at the library whom they deemed suspicious.
The Belgian government closed down Brussels for three days during a terrorist manhunt, in a move reminiscent of the briefer "lockdown" in Boston following the Boston Marathon bombings.
There was the briefest hope that the volcanic lockdown of airports might convince the massively profitable supermarket chains to cut down on their imports of fresh vegetables and fruit from the developing world in order to encourage customers to eat, when possible, produce which is local and in season.
"Overcrowding in California's prisons substantially increases the use of lockdowns," the organization wrote in a legal brief.
The trash got picked up this morning outside my apartment, in the South End, but that was before Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick gave a brief press conference in which he called for a citywide lockdown.
Their lockdown bullpen faltered.
Brussels was on lockdown.
