How to Use lockup in a Sentence

lockup

noun
  • Cops, perhaps Sox fans themselves, arrived and hauled him off to the lockup.
    Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Jail food was just another reason to avoid doing time in county lockup.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2024
  • She was sentenced to serve just 18 months in county lockup and just 18 months on house arrest.
    Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Four massive bolt lugs provide significant strength and a solid lockup.
    Chris Mudgett, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The fund requires its 90 limited partners to agree to a one-year lockup period.
    Olga Kharif, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Majer ordered the two teens separated inside the juvenile lockup while the case is pending.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2020
  • With the initial jail built in 1954 and four additions in the decades after, areas of the lockup were getting outdated.
    Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2024
  • He has been held in the city police lockup since his arrest late Tuesday afternoon for the three separate nighttime attacks the week of Sept. 7.
    Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Last month, the City Council passed a resolution urging the mayor to find alternatives to building the mental health lockup.
    Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Schulte, who remains incarcerated at a federal lockup next to the Manhattan federal courthouse, has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
    Larry Neumeister, Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Diaz and Segui were in the van; the others were at the lockup.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 28 Nov. 2022
  • By March, there were 54 people jailed in the county lockup.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • He was booked into the county lockup at 11:38 a.m. and is being held without bond.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Thus far, they have been held in small classrooms above the lockup's gymnasium.
    Frank E. Lockwood, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The plot comes to a boil when a deadly attack at the grocery store leads to the lockup of an exuberant boy named Dodo, who is deaf.
    Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • As the week’s first day ground on, the killings piled up: An inmate was stabbed in his cell at the federal lockup in downtown Los Angeles.
    Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2020

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