Sentence examples for locked window from inspiring English sources

Deputy Chief Charles R. Blaich, the fire division commander, said the building had at least two fire code violations, one for the locked window grate and one for not having sprinklers in the single-room apartments on the third floor.

By the time Lt. Ken Voisin smashed through a locked window security gate and made his way inside Apartment 3C of an Upper West Side building yesterday, he could see nothing through the thick smoke.

MOSCOW, Dec. 9 — The death toll in a fire at a drug treatment hospital early Saturday rose to 45, all of them women, and Russian officials said that they died because they were trapped by locked exits and locked window grilles as toxic smoke suffocated them.

Fire officials said the circumstances of the fire typified many of the mistakes that can lead to tragedy during the holidays: a Christmas tree that was tinder-dry, candles left burning nearby, flammable gift-wrapping paper lying about, and escape routes blocked by locked window gates.

A fast-moving fire, apparently set by an arsonist who doused a staircase with flammable liquid, roared through a Bedford-Stuyvesant building early yesterday morning, killing a woman who was trapped behind a locked window grate in a third-floor apartment and a man in the building, the authorities said.

And he feels relatively safe behind the locked doors and locked windows that lend his cinder block office on the leafy C.W. Post campus of Long Island University in Brookville, N.Y., its bunkerish tone.

She is also cuffed by sudden gusts of wind, harassed by what feels like a pair of hands, puzzled by occasionally locked windows and sometimes rustling curtains.

Alohomora – to open locked windows and doors 7. Avada Kedavra – to bring about instant death 8. Sectumsempra – the incantation for one of the Half-Blood Prince's spells 9. Obliviate – to make the subject forget 10.

In the midst of November's blaze, over 2,000 factory workers, mostly female, found the doors had been locked, windows bolted shut, no functioning safety equipment, and only three accessible staircases.

As the workforce of largely young, immigrant women tried to escape, they found the main stairway door locked, windows shuttered, and routes to safety blocked by closely packed rows of worktables and chairs.

Close and lock window sashes.