lock up
Example Sentences
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Seemed to me if they filled in the privies, locked up the school, and threw the key down the well, they could save some real money and do us all a service.
From Literature
Why couldn’t I keep it locked up forever, in the tomb of my own body?
From Literature
"Every day we get reports of, horses, dogs, pigs, goats, everything. So many animals being either stranded, abandoned, locked up and chained," Kenny said.
From BBC
“They’re locked up in a storage unit,” she says with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times
Those institutions were willing to lock up their dollars with hotshot managers for years, giving them authority on how to invest them.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
