Sentence examples for locked shut from inspiring English sources

"locked shut" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is completely sealed or closed and unable to be opened. Example: The old door was locked shut and no amount of force could open it.

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The Paris Review's former office is now locked shut.

BBC Nepal news service was stopped, and all community radio stations were locked shut.

Surely the doors on the last-chance saloon had been locked shut this time?

Five of the other cells on the corridor were locked shut.

Federal regulations require that the discharge valves be locked shut, except when the tanks are being pumped out.

Local residents blamed negligence, and said one room in the school was locked shut, dooming about 40 pupils.

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There are consignment shops in the mountains, we assure each other as we lean on the rear door of the SUV, willing it to lock shut.

The safer and more humane option is a live trap, which uses bait to lure the groundhog into a cage that has a door that will lock shut.

The innocent snaps the lock shut.

I hold my breath and fight the lock shut.

My finger's in my mouth again, I put it in my armpit and lock shut.

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