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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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
"Without this decisive action, prisons will run out of space entirely as early as November and we will be unable to lock up serious offenders at all," they said.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Why lock up deodorant when a company could use that cash to pay their employees enough to stop living paycheck-to-paycheck?
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
It’s part of an effort to beat competition and lock up students earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
“I think it was locked up in here for some reason, and you wouldn’t lock up something unless it was important....”
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
