How to Use air lock in a Sentence

air lock

noun

• These winds tend to keep the bitter cold air locked in the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
  — Judson Jones and Allison Chinchar, CNN, 9 May 2020
• Feustel initiated the slide table, and the cube entered the air lock.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• One of them was the air lock situation, and the time around when Filip was taken from me.
  — Clint Worthington, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2021
• The two astronauts mounted the satellite on a tray, called a slide table, which rolled on tracks through an air lock to the outside.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• In practice, a warming Arctic strains the jet stream’s ability to keep all that cold polar air locked away in the north.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2017
• This fast spin keeps the Arctic air locked up surrounding the polar region.
  — Mark Torregrossa | [e-mail], cleveland, 21 Feb. 2020
• Like the story about Naomi trying to commit suicide by air lock, for instance.
  — Clint Worthington, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2021
• The insurrectionists of January 6 bypassed that air lock and headed straight for the closed doors.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 14 Jan. 2021
• The air lock butyl bladder is added for air retention during regular play.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 21 May 2021
• The air lock butyl bladder is added for air retention during regular play.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 21 May 2021
• Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov, on their first spacewalk, spent nearly two hours doing extra leak checks before exiting from an air lock.
  — Fox News, 18 Nov. 2020
• Passengers would arrive and depart over various cities by means of shuttle planes that would nose into a retractable air lock under the fuselage.
  — Thomas E. Stimson, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2021
• There are bouts of cruelty here, plus a breathless brawl inside an air lock, but such scenes, rather than issuing freely from the movie’s more pensive concerns, seem tacked on in semi-desperation.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2021
• Finally, a person floats weightlessly into an air lock.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 8 June 2018
• In the wild, the fish thankfully don’t have to be flung manually into the air lock; if all goes well, they’re attracted naturally through a combination of habitat mimicry and manipulation to enter the chamber on their own.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Aug. 2019
• The Army Corps is already considering how field houses can also reach the negative pressure environments for air locks and suction necessary to safely house patients who have the coronavirus.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2020
• Pre-pandemic, Pfizer’s Pearl River research center didn’t have a biosafety level 3 lab required to grow Covid-19 — with an air lock and scientists clothed in hooded white suits, gloves, impervious gowns, and using an air-purifying respirator.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 30 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024