Sentence examples for were locked for from inspiring English sources

His office announced the vulnerability, and the cards were locked for a time.

Students in the cafeteria fled to classrooms that were locked for safety.

And though the hospital shifted to caring for the elderly in 1961, many of its buildings were locked for lack of patients.

Those on board were transferred to an Australian customs ship, the Ocean Protector, where they were locked for at least 22 hours per day in windowless rooms.

Palestinians were locked for years into a self-defeating dynamic of violence and self-pity that led to terrorism and intransigence.

BANGKOK — The night before the crucial vote in Parliament, the political defectors were locked for their own protection in hotel rooms, their phones confiscated to shield them from the pleas and payoffs of their former comrades.

No director has yet been locked for the film adaptation.

Mr. Loeb has been locked for months in a proxy fight for control of Yahoo.

"We seem to be locked for eternity in a vicious commercial circle," Hebey wrote in 1965.

The first available Tuesday after the primary is March 28, because voting machines are locked for 15 days after elections.

West of Ogden is Junction City, where the office of Elliott's Body Shop was locked for several days last week.