Sentence examples for lockdown to from inspiring English sources

At Google, a company that prides itself on openness, some buildings were on "lockdown" to ensure that upcoming products don't leak.

The city had been put into lockdown to try and prevent protest, and a massive warehouse was hired and equipped in advance with stacked cages to hold arrested protesters.

Further questions about how Cameron had benefited from Blairmore went unanswered that evening, as Downing Street went into lockdown to figure out how best to deal with the persistent crisis.

For about thirty minutes late on Friday, during a slightly shamefaced press conference announcing that the authorities had shut down all of Boston to catch a teenage fugitive and then failed to catch him, it looked like there might be a modest media backlash against the decision to put an entire American metropolis on lockdown to hunt a single bomber.

Sierra Leone - one of the countries worst hit by West Africa's Ebola outbreak - has announced a three-day lockdown to try to tackle the disease.

Sierra Leone - one of the countries worst hit by West Africa's Ebola outbreak - has announced a four-day lockdown to try to tackle the disease.

The prisoners are sent to lockdown for failing to obey prison rules -- easy to understand given that many of these men and women suffer hallucinations and delusions that get worse when they are sent into confinement.

It used to be much easier for Hollywood to keep its employees under lockdown, so to speak.

The lockdown appeared to be an overreaction to the April 1999 events in Columbine.

Not running a lockdown sleeve to secure the production string to the well head, eliminating yet another barrier to a blowout.

Saints O vs. Chiefs D The Chiefs went to their dime package and played lockdown man-to-man whenever the Saints were in a passing set.