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Discover LudwigThe phrase "locked from the inside" is correct and is used commonly in written English.
You can use it to express a situation in which something has been locked from the inside, meaning that it has been locked from the same side in which it is usually entered. For example: The door was locked from the inside and no one could enter.
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Shortly before 10am the doors were locked from the inside.
The door to her flat was locked from the inside.
A bodyguard who discovered Mr Berezovsky said the bathroom door was locked from the inside.
Mr. Jennings tried to exit the car, but found the doors locked from the inside.
The door to the bathroom, where Nisman was found, was locked from the inside.
He says to BigBeard, "It's locked from the inside, I think".
The studio is locked from the inside and the suspects have alibis.
"Definitely locked from the inside," added Mary, having made an impossibly rapid examination of the room.
The door was locked from the inside, with a couch pushed in front of it.
The bedroom door was locked from the inside, investigators said, as was the apartment door.
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But his compartment was locked from the inside--so who killed him, and how did they pull it off?
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