Sentence examples for lockdown from from inspiring English sources

France may seem to be in lockdown from outside, but it isn't.

She said the shutdown was uneventful: no announcements were made, and Macy's workers learned of the lockdown from customers or colleagues who called from outside.

The Capitol police were ordering people to stay inside the building, which was under lockdown from about 2 30 p.m. until 3 p.m. Suspect's car on Constitution Ave.

The hub of the universe, as Boston's popular nickname would have it, was on lockdown from first light until near dark on Friday.

It was "the most exhausting of all of my records I've released in my 'career,'" Herren wrote on MySpace, and "literally has kept me on lockdown from most the world..

Even Fritz Lang at his most fatalistic, in films like "Scarlet Street" (1945) and "Human Desire" (1954), allowed his heroes some freedom, if only the freedom to fall for the wrong dame, but Lanthimos's characters are in lockdown from the start.

Ellie Wilkinson of the Dale Farm Solidarity Group said: "Lots of people are still working on the lockdown, everything from mixing concrete to welding things to building barricades so that is in progress right now.

I've got Canterbury Street on lockdown, man — from the Hansens', on the corner, with the oversized litter box they installed for me in their back yard (or "sandbox," as they euphemistically call it), to the Griffins' colonial, with my special "doggy" door to the screened-in porch.

This 24-hour lockdown prevented Mr. Thomas from seeking water from any source outside his cell.

Hidden Valley Elementary School, located not far from the shooting, was placed on lockdown for nearly an hour.

This is the revolution I'm talking about in my brain--from complete lockdown of myself all of a sudden to this thing that was like, "But I love the idea of B-movie!" Those movies changed my life when I was a kid, so we went with it.