Examples of 'lockdown' in a sentence

Meaning of "lockdown"

'Lockdown' is a noun that refers to a situation in which people are not allowed to enter or leave a building or area freely due to security or safety reasons. It is commonly used in the context of restrictions during a crisis or emergency
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  • The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.
  • A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.

How to use "lockdown" in a sentence

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Then there is the lockdown tomorrow night.
The lockdown made the system glitchy.
The fact that we are in lockdown proves we are in control.
A lockdown could mean massive negative press.
Everyone remains on lockdown in their assigned berthings.
Lockdown is not enough if someone is hiding them.
I am not ordering a lockdown on the basis of a feeling.
Looks like the base is going to emergency lockdown.
When the lockdown ends depends on you.
We have got the area on lockdown now.
We are on lockdown for the rest of the day.
The city has put us into a lockdown.
We are in a lockdown in case you have not noticed.
Two more hospitals have gone into lockdown.
We are on lockdown because some hacking transmitter was detected.

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The whole area is on lockdown and he knows it.
It is a consent form empowering us to place you in lockdown.
It was unreasonable to assume lockdown could be maintained indefinitely.
I have got the zoo in total lockdown.
I am ordering a lockdown until we catch these beasts.
I will me a run for the lockdown room.
Give us a lockdown and sound the alarms.
You tripped some sort of lockdown protocol.
Just on lockdown till this thing passes.
Switching to automation and beginning lockdown procedures.
They got him in a lockdown in a psychiatric facility.
They have got the hospital on lockdown.
You should go to lockdown for three days.
We should get out of here before lockdown.
But there was no lockdown during that outbreak.
Thought you had this place on lockdown.
This place is on lockdown for chemical exposure.
Radzinsky figured out how to fake a lockdown.
Talyn waking up from lockdown and powering up.
Someone did a runaround on the level four lockdown.
Cartain casey posiyive id lockdown explpsives engaged.
Except for the ones in maximum lockdown.
Make sure you lockdown everything.
Cops have this entire city on lockdown.
This entire lockdown could be the result of a malfunction.
You took care of the lockdown mechanism.
All surrounding corridors have been placed in lockdown.
So you guys are gonna be in lockdown a while longer.
No lockdown means security protocols resume.
We were going to run a security lockdown drill next week.
The lockdown will remain in effect.
They are transferring warshaw to maximum lockdown tomorrow.
Four years of lockdown plays tricks on the ear.
They are moving the president to the lockdown.
I am gonna need a full lockdown on this level.

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