How to Use under lock and key in a Sentence

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• Some bottles are so rare they are kept under lock and key.
  — Vanessa Wilkins, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023
• The story was in all the papers: nothing under lock and key was safe.
  — Hazlitt, 5 Apr. 2023
• And, instead of keeping it under lock and key, the bookstores put it on shelves.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 6 Jan. 2023
• Details about the film are still being kept under lock and key, and all that’s known is that it’s set in the near future.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022
• The variety of products now under lock and key has grown, too.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2023
• Streaming data for the show, per usual, is under lock and key.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2023
• Many stores keep certain items -- those most often stolen -- under lock and key.
  — Serenah McKay, Arkansas Online, 3 June 2023
• Details such as the timestamps of every text to your boyfriend might not be under lock and key, either.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• Products like Oreo cookies (above) are stored under lock and key.
  — Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• Across the retail landscape, businesses have been putting items under lock and key as a quick way to stop thieves.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2023
• But his mom found some footage from it, which hopefully is under lock and key somewhere.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• Their brother Ted White II maintained that the 2010 will, found under lock and key, should precede papers found in a couch.
  — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
• The writers keep the Yellowjackets plot under lock and key.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
• Any pearls found in the mollusks were graded and kept under lock and key on the dhow (pearling boat), with the opened shells either tossed back into the sea or kept to sell as mother-of-pearl.
  — Sarah Reid, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
• White's attorney, Kurt Olson, noted the 2010 will was under lock and key.
  — CBS News, 11 July 2023
• White’s attorney, Kurt Olson, noted the 2010 will was under lock and key.
  — Ed White, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• The exclusive invite list for the Met Gala is mostly under lock and key until the stars arrive on the red carpet for cameras to see.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
• Items like facial cream, rug shampoo and alcohol are under lock and key.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
• The Wood’s cycad is considered extinct in the wild, and clones of the lonely male are often kept under lock and key to protect them from poachers.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
• While the performers came as no real surprise to those tuned into the rumors, their outfits were kept under lock and key.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 26 July 2024
• Details on the show are being kept, like all Star Wars matters, under lock and key, although it is known that the series takes place in the final days of the High Republic.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
• In some neighborhoods, customers feel racially profiled by what has been placed under lock and key.
  — Curbed, 13 Jan. 2023
• The crisis has forced supermarkets to put their olive oil supplies under lock and key just to prevent it from being stolen.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 20 Nov. 2023
• Penthouses and a rooftop remain under lock and key until later in 2024.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
• Shaving products are kept under lock and key at a Target in Washington, Aug. 8.
  — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• Casting director Michael Barry was the one to finally share the footage, after keeping it under lock and key for decades.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
• Their new feature is described as an action-adventure film, but the logline is being kept under lock and key.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• Each year, the list of attendees is kept under lock and key, with the event's co-chairs and official Vogue red carpet hosts usually being announced ahead of time.
  — Angela Law, refinery29.com, 1 May 2024
• White's attorney, Kurt Olson, noted the earlier will was under lock and key.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2023
• White’s attorney, Kurt Olson, noted the earlier will was under lock and key.
  — Ed White, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024