locked up
Example Sentences
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Some must even be locked up under Deprivation of Liberty orders mandated by the High Court for their own welfare.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
It’s locked up like the recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
The senior executive team at QXO owns about 30% of the company, but the vast majority is locked up for six years.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
Framed as a humanitarian mission to help ships and starving crews locked up in the Strait against their will, this was also a tactical move to break the Iranian blockade and restore energy flows.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
The next step was to find a tower—I was sure Opal would be locked up in one.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
