Sentence examples for locking things from inspiring English sources

"It's not like you are locking things up forever," he said.

To give you an example, a character may be fastidiously obsessed by security, always locking things, never trusting anyone.

There is a point in that route, after the turbulence of the Rockies and the Sierra, when the jet leans forward and your ears close and the crew begins locking things into place.

Linux and Windows geeks often put Apple down for locking things up but I say I can do more in the OS X command line terminal than I ever was able to in the Windows DOS window.

The school is really locking things down".

"He may not think or know he's doing the wrong thing, but a court would say Apple is one of the most tight and restricted IT producers in the world, notorious for locking things down," said David Vaile, executive director at the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

The Spurs demolished the Blazers, 124-89, in San Antonio to lock things up in the regular season's waning days.

"Since we never had that last hour or so to lock things in, that may have been how it played out," Pete McEntegart, a writer for Sports Illustrated, said.

It may not be feasible to lock things away, but if a sufficiently knowledgeable person has physical access to your setup, all bets are off.

An American official said Dr. Albright was going to the meeting with Mr. Mubarak and Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, to "lock things down" and pin down Mr. Arafat.

"I don't see them running to get a deal," said Lillian Roberts, executive director of District Council 37. "You have to talk before you can lock things up, and they don't seem to want to talk much".