padlock
Example Sentences
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The first and only response to that invitation was to ask him to put a padlock on the door to the storage room full of boxed documents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
Not necessarily a designer one, but a handbag with a strong sense of itself — an acid-green baguette bag, a wicker orb with a padlock, a cheetah-print apothecary satchel.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
Slouchy and decorated in padlock hardware, Chloé’s certified it-girl bag is my dream silhouette.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
The 61-year-old accountant, who lives with his wife and daughter, had activated an alarm and put a padlock on the gate the night before.
From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025
He knelt down and shook the padlock in frustration.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
