Sentence examples for broken lock from inspiring English sources

He was a reassuring presence, the one who could fix every broken commode or repair every broken lock, who built a precise copy of a famous Isamu Noguchi sculpture to display in his backyard rock garden while my father was holding his car fenders together with fiberglass tape.

He likes to say he is from Pennsylvania, so he knows how to nail the weathervane to the deck and repair a broken lock.

We see them dozens of times every day: the shot of the ominously broken lock, the suspenseful music, the graphics telling you when to tune in.

Security issues (e.g. broken lock, doorknob, or gate).

You must close the door - don't leave it ajar, even if it does have a broken lock.

The strangers gained entry by questioning tenants or finding front doors that were propped open or had broken locks.

Mail has long been an issue in impoverished neighborhoods, where many people are homeless or transient and others live in apartment buildings or houses where the mailboxes have broken locks, or have to be shared with roommates and neighbors.

Radiographs revealed a broken locking plate and a femoral non-union with a 3° valgus, 18 mm posterior translation and 18° procurvatum deformity.

Examples include a stroke patient not being given blood thinning medicine, antibiotics being forgotten, patients identities not being checked, broken locks on cabinets and unlabelled syringes left out in the open.

Windows can be broken, locks jimmied.

They alerted the property manager, in hopes of getting the building boarded up and broken locks fixed to keep people out.