How to Use lockup in a Sentence

lockup

noun

• Diaz and Segui were in the van; the others were at the lockup.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 28 Nov. 2022
• For years drug use had washed him in and out of state lockups like a tide.
  — Kyle Swenson, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
• By March, there were 54 people jailed in the county lockup.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2021
• The ordeal began Sunday when the pair tunneled their way out of the lockup.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 Nov. 2019
• He's been in the Chicago federal lockup for more than a year.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2020
• Cops, perhaps Sox fans themselves, arrived and hauled him off to the lockup.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• The sheriff runs the women’s jail and six other lockups as part of the nation’s largest jail system.
  — Maya Lau, latimes.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• James has been jailed since the shooting in a federal lockup just blocks from where the attack took place.
  — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
• He and other board members are bound by the same lockup agreement.
  — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• She was sentenced to serve just 18 months in county lockup and just 18 months on house arrest.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 19 Oct. 2020
• Walter's lockup marks the fifth longest of any juvenile in the U.S.
  — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2022
• He was being driven to the police lockup in a transport van.
  — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2023
• But there’s an escape clause written into the deal: Trump can seek a waiver of the lockup from the post-merger board.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• How about being led by staff in prison garb to a table inside what’s designed to be a makeshift lockup?
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• If found guilty on all counts, Dillon faces up to 50 years in federal lockup.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 16 July 2021
• That stake may have been worth at least $128 million, based on the price range that DJT stock was fetching after the lockup expired.
  — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
• This car is not going to sit in a Warner Bros. lockup and get forgotten about.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2020
• Prison records show Lopez was most recently being held at a lockup in Gatesville.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 14 May 2022
• James has been jailed since the shooting in a federal lockup just blocks from where the attack occurred.
  — Michael R. Sisak, ajc, 3 Jan. 2023
• Timberlake was arrested, spent the rest of the night in a local lockup, and was released in the morning.
  — Sean Piccoli, Deadline, 26 July 2024
• He was booked into the county lockup at 11:38 a.m. and is being held without bond.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• From jail straight to the court By about 8 a.m. security for the team had been alerted that Brown was in lockup and he was allowed to pay his bail and leave.
  — Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2018
• In video released June 20, Rodriguez is seated at a desk with a computer in the city lockup.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2023
• In video released June 20, Rodriguez is seen seated at a desk with a computer in the city lockup.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024
• Band-Aid repairs costing millions of dollars have been common at the lockup through the years.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019
• Campos was then held in the Gresham District station’s lockup for about five hours.
  — Paige Fry, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2022
• The lockup period expires at year-end, giving Uber the option to sell or reduce the stake.
  — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2021
• He was booked in a sheriff's lockup and was scheduled to be in court Friday afternoon.
  — Dennis Romero /, NBC News, 15 June 2018
• Shares sold off further last month as the end of the lockup period approached, allowing company insiders to sell their shares.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
• In April, a sheriff’s deputy who was part of a task force focused on keeping the county lockups free of drugs and gang activity was arrested and accused of smuggling drugs into one of the county jails.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Jan 2025