padlock
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"They say education is the key, but honestly speaking we never find the padlock open," Daniel told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Garner claimed Toretto, who he had previously described as "missing a few nuts and bolts", had been put in a small shed on the patio, which he secured with a padlock.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
No one had gone into the room again since they had taken Melquíades’ body out and had put on the door a padlock whose parts had become fused together with rust.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She padlocks the gate when she returns and buries witchy talismans around the property to ward off intruders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Sensing my interest in the cluster of irregular towers, he stood up, produced a large key ring and began opening a series of padlocks.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
There’s also a large metal “Love” sign at the visitors’ center, where people attach padlocks engraved with names and messages of love.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
When they arrived 30 minutes later, they were unable to close the flood gate as the force of water was too strong to stand up in and padlocks were submerged.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
We had brought padlocks, as instructed, for the lockers in our rooms.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Sindorf left in May 2024 but padlocked the unit behind him, preventing Vivos from taking possession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
But residents can no longer view the bright autumn colours of the tree of life, a symbol often painted by Behzad, as the wooden door has been padlocked shut.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
In March, the clinic doors had been padlocked for two weeks when she developed vomiting and diarrhea.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
His home is padlocked shut, and rebels are more reluctant to grant entry there.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2024
Anything has to be better than a padlocked refrigerator and a pallet in the hall.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025
And a law that was passed primarily with climate protesters in its sights, who have taken to gluing themselves to roads and padlocking themselves to this, that and the other.
From BBC ● May 9, 2023
“It would be a terrible shame if someone were to buy it and then start padlocking it. They’ve done so much work to it, it’s quite amazing,” Bell & Co.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
The once-taciturn 19-year-old turned into a team leader and occasional jokester, once padlocking together the typewriters of three Montreal reporters.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2020
But most of the stores were closed and the owners had pulled the metal gates down over the front windows and doors, padlocking them shut.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
