padlock

Peter Hughes, from Maesteg, said the padlock was one of hundreds of artefacts he found after decades of searching on Morfa beach.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

"They say education is the key, but honestly speaking we never find the padlock open," Daniel told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 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

Deliberately, making a wholly unnecessary display of fitting the key and turning it, he opened the padlock and loosened the chain and swung the gates just wide enough for the car to come through.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Inspired by a trend in Paris, couples attached metal padlocks and threw the keys into the East River.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

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

After leaving the padlocks, people have been throwing the keys in the canyon.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

Police will also have new powers to search people for super-glues and padlocks.

From BBC ● May 9, 2023

I was thinking about the padlocks without any keys and the tractor without any key.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

The campus of High Point University, a favorite of wealthy families, gives way to industrial pockets, where buzzing factories are interspersed with padlocked, graffitied plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

All across town, they were behind drawn blinds and locked doors and padlocked gates.

From Slate ● Oct. 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

I squeezed my skinny body between the school’s chain-link fence and padlocked gate.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

Instead of abruptly padlocking our door, as most restaurants do, we’d give everyone four months’ notice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

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