Sentence examples for were interlocked from inspiring English sources
noun
A safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions.
- The demonstrator couldn't figure out why the machine wouldn't work, until he remembered that there was an interlock so it wouldn't operate with the cover open.
For many Japanese, State Shintoism and military adventurism were interlocked.
The two were interlocked in rivalry and mutual dependence, and the Belgian Congo was described as the "portfolio state" for its reliance on copper shares.
No two versions were exactly the same, though certain phrases and passages recurred, but in different order, and the texts were interlocked, so that the computer moved through all three at the same rate.
Here safeguarding is exemplified by the aforementioned peasants whose lives were interlocked with such natural rhythms (through planting seasons etc). in a way that modern technological society is not.
The Cornell Board and the Chase Manhattan Bank Board were interlocked and both were making big profits in Apartheid South Africa.
The earliest dinosaurs were small, bipedal forms that are first recorded ca. 228 million years ago in the Late Triassic, when the Earth's continental landmasses were interlocked as Pangea [1].
Rather, they were interlocking series of trusts, partnerships and alliances designed for flexibility and control.
The most interesting thing about Flanders' book is her ability to show the way that all these developments were interlocking and mutually supportive.
Their circles were interlocking, connecting the blind Egyptian sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman; the then largely unknown Qaeda leader, Mr. bin Laden; and El Sayyid A. Nosair.
Our arms are interlocked.
