How to Use lockdown in a Sentence

lockdown

noun
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  • Lots of cooks and creatives left the city, at least in the thick of lockdowns.
    — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 3 May 2024
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Well, not so much because those episodes came out about two weeks into lockdown.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 3 May 2023
  • 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
  • Paul was a vocal critic of lockdown measures put in place as a result of the pandemic.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
  • And during Britain’s first Covid lockdown, the company shared the recipe online so bereft customers could make their own.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
  • First, lockdowns pushed millions of low-wage employees out of work.
    — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2024
  • In 2020, Johan and I were sitting at the kitchen table soon after lockdown began.
    — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Schools in the area were placed on lockdown while officers searched for the suspect, who was also found with a gunshot wound, police said.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The school was put on lockdown as officers searched for Duus, police said.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 19 July 2024
  • School district staff separated the students and put the school on lockdown.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The campus was placed on lockdown, but officers found no evidence of a threat.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
  • Grocery demand spiked briefly in the months after lockdown in 2020, but soon fell off as prices started rising.
    — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The pandemic snarled global supply chains and triggered lockdowns, causing shortages of goods and workers.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024

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