How to Use lock away in a Sentence

lock away

phrasal verb

• Gelb said the high school allowed students to keep their pouches in their backpacks or on their desks, but teachers would occasionally unlock the pouches to check that students’ phones were securely locked away.
  — Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 7 July 2024
• That chewing causes some of the carbon that’s locked away in those leaves to enter the air.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
• The 15-song record wasn’t completely locked away prior to this leak.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
• The gods had disappeared, locked away in an hourglass prison.
  — Keri Blakinger, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• The America Roadster won’t be locked away in a vault now that it’s been added to the Register.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 June 2023
• But the stories are often locked away in anonymous rooms, and for good reason.
  — Mike Scalise, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2023
• Those that hit the spot get locked away in the Cabinet of Curiosities to be released at some point.
  — Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Twenty healthy volunteers were locked away from the outside world for one month.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• For decades, the United States had locked away people deemed to be mentally ill in asylums.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
• And the secret she’s tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing keeping her alive.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• For the past year, Ali, 46, has been giving gun locks away to anyone who wants one, her piece of trying to solve the puzzle of suicide in Montana.
  — Michael Corkery Tailyr Irvine, New York Times, 10 June 2024
• All the information about that stuff gets locked away behind the event horizon, never to be seen again.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
• The firearms in Teixeira’s house are locked away in a cabinet, according to Kelley.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 18 May 2023
• But logistical issues closed the park and locked away the artwork—until now.
  — Jenna Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• With rates at rock bottom, there was little benefit to locking away your money for six months, a year, or longer.
  — Martha C. White, wsj.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• For nearly 35 years, a one-of-a-kind art show was locked away in shipping containers and never viewed in the way its creators intended.
  — Melissa Adan, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2024
• The carbon within will be locked away and prevented from being re-released.
  — Michelle Ma, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
• This mini photo printer will stop your happy snaps from being locked away in your camera roll for years on end.
  — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
• Song shot himself in 2018 at his best friend’s house in Connecticut while the two played with a handgun, one of several firearms the other boy’s father hadn’t locked away.
  — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
• But the spectacle that was supposed to tour the world ended up in litigation, locked away in shipping containers in the Texas desert.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2023
• No wonder the guy ends up a hermit locked away in his factory, coming up with plans to torture unruly children.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
• All the evidence and her patient’s story were sealed and locked away, just feet from a wall of thank-you cards from patients and sticky notes of encouragement among nurses.
  — Katheryn Houghton, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• Dunst is capable of summoning deep wells of emotion with just a look, but Lee’s inner world is largely locked away.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2024
• East German fans who were caught with Biermann’s music on bootleg cassette tapes or handbills of his verse could be arrested and locked away for years.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 7 July 2023
• The two of us began spending most of our free time together, locked away in her bedroom making out as girls fluttered throughout the sorority house around us.
  — Samantha Mann, ELLE, 1 Aug. 2023
• The book focuses on a government agency that locks away inventors in a secretive prison and hijacks their work.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
• And Bob, having been jolted out of his numbness, is finally able to open up about the painful and difficult feelings he’s kept locked away for so long, first to Lily and then eventually to Jeanie.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2024
• But despite pledges of public records transparency, any paper trail of how that response came together is still being kept locked away.
  — Sam Doran, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• But for those that do have them, the academy recommends guns be locked away and ammunition locked and stored separately.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2024
• Now, new companies are selling something else: the ability of trees to lock away planet-warming carbon.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024