Sentence examples for is on lockdown from inspiring English sources

"The school is on lockdown," one student wrote on an Internet message board, Sconex.com.

In traveling back to her old office, Carrie finds out that the entire embassy is on lockdown and no one has been made aware that there is a full-staff meeting that morning.

Everyone is on lockdown.

The cavernous lair beneath the arena is on lockdown too.

The maximum security prison is on lockdown, and visits have been suspended.

Security protocols kick into gear with ruthless efficiency – the entire city is on lockdown.

He wrote that the embassy was "on lockdown after a person reportedly attempted to detonate himself outside the premises".

Brussels was on lockdown.

We are on lockdown.

"The hospital was on lockdown.

"He's on lockdown," he said.