How to Use lockdown in a Sentence

lockdown

noun

• Lots of cooks and creatives left the city, at least in the thick of lockdowns.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 3 May 2024
• At the time, Shanghai was in the midst of a two-month Covid lockdown.
  — Laura He, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
• East High School was placed on lockdown in the wake of the shooting.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The pandemic lockdown kept Starr off the road for two years.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
• Things felt eerily similar to the first few days of the Covid lockdown.
  — Mira Ptacin, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• The school went on lockdown and the campus was cleared by police to ensure the male was not on the campus.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 18 Mar. 2023
• The data shows the effect of the Covid lockdowns and weak recovery last year.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024
• The back of the heel is cradled instead by a snug heel collar, which is good for heel lockdown.
  — Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2024
• Jail staff placed the alleged inmate, a 35-year-old, on lockdown.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Sep. 2024
• Still, with lockdown closer Evan Phillips emerging from the bullpen, the lead appeared to be safe.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
• The lockdown was lifted around 2:30 p.m., and the school planned to dismiss students as normal.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• The next challenge could require the Bruins to reach a new level of lockdown.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• And then the Panthers stayed true to their typical brand of lockdown defense in the third to hold off the Oilers.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024
• After lockdown, the world opened up for the lucky laptop workers.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2024
• Like so many, Emily and her husband, Matt, were in lockdown.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• But covid-era lockdowns sent the legion of state workers home, and the city’s rocket petered out.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
• But the evening became the starting point for a wider project about young people, lockdown and mental health.
  — Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
• Accepting the agent’s challenge, Li spent the lockdown year churning out a draft.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
• There should be a 9/11-type commission that dissects the pros and cons of the lockdown for public perusal.
  — Readers, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
• If her centerstage persona took off during lockdown, Mutant;Destrudo might point to the birth of a new era.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2023
• Brooks had gotten a call from her surviving son that his high school, just blocks from The Covenant School, was on lockdown.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2023
• Well, not so much because those episodes came out about two weeks into lockdown.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 3 May 2023
• Keith Miller, a special needs teacher at the high school, saw police rush into the school and heard the lockdown alarms sound.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 7 Feb. 2023
• Zavala hosted the first of these meals after the pandemic lockdown.
  — John Paul Brammer, Bon Appétit, 21 Oct. 2024
• Eight percent of the respondents said a lockdown due to reports of a firearm happened more than once that year.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• The actress told The Sunday Times that her child became her hair stylist during lockdown.
  — Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024
• Following the Covid-19 lockdown, schools reopened, but many students have not come back — even to this day.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 18 Jan. 2024
• Many had slashed the size of their fleets and laid off thousands of employees just to stay afloat as Covid-19 lockdowns throttled air travel.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• In the wake of a global lockdown, downtown pessimism had a different tone.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Colin Gray received texts from his younger daughter saying her middle school was on lockdown.
  — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024