lock up
- acquire v.
- affirm v.
- assure v.
- bind v.
- cage v.
- coop v.
- corral v.
- enclose v.
- ensure v.
- forbid v.
- get v.
- have v.
- hide v.
- hold v.
- immobilize v.
- imprison v.
- incarcerate v.
- jail v.
- mew v.
- monopolize v.
- possess v.
- prohibit v.
- put away v.
- restrain v.
- secure v.
- secure v.
- stash v.
- store v.
- tie/tie up v.
- tie up v.
- lockup n.
Example Sentences
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It’s crazy, crazy to have kids lock up their phones and then walk into classrooms where there’s a chatbot that’s going to give them their lesson.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
“We don’t know how long we’re going to stay here, so we didn’t want to lock up money in a house,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Alex Norris said the government would be "getting spades in the ground quicker to deliver thousands more places to lock up dangerous criminals and keep the public safe".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The increase reflects new agreements with cloud-computing providers as OpenAI races to lock up the enormous amounts of computing capacity it needs to develop and run its AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
So at last he saw Mr. Revere, a stocky, ruddy man, with fine, dark eyes, shutting his shop, taking out his key preparing to lock up.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
