How to Use lockup in a Sentence
lockup
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Diaz and Segui were in the van; the others were at the lockup.
— Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 28 Nov. 2022 -
By March, there were 54 people jailed in the county lockup.
— The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2021 -
The ordeal began Sunday when the pair tunneled their way out of the lockup.
— Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 26 Nov. 2019 -
He's been in the Chicago federal lockup for more than a year.
— Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2020 -
Cops, perhaps Sox fans themselves, arrived and hauled him off to the lockup.
— Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2020 -
James has been jailed since the shooting in a federal lockup just blocks from where the attack took place.
— CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023 -
He and other board members are bound by the same lockup agreement.
— Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024 -
She was sentenced to serve just 18 months in county lockup and just 18 months on house arrest.
— Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 19 Oct. 2020 -
Walter's lockup marks the fifth longest of any juvenile in the U.S.
— CBS News, 26 Aug. 2022 -
He was being driven to the police lockup in a transport van.
— Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2023 -
But there’s an escape clause written into the deal: Trump can seek a waiver of the lockup from the post-merger board.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024 -
How about being led by staff in prison garb to a table inside what’s designed to be a makeshift lockup?
— Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023 -
If found guilty on all counts, Dillon faces up to 50 years in federal lockup.
— Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 16 July 2021 -
This car is not going to sit in a Warner Bros. lockup and get forgotten about.
— Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2020 -
Prison records show Lopez was most recently being held at a lockup in Gatesville.
— Julia Musto, Fox News, 14 May 2022 -
James has been jailed since the shooting in a federal lockup just blocks from where the attack occurred.
— Michael R. Sisak, ajc, 3 Jan. 2023 -
Timberlake was arrested, spent the rest of the night in a local lockup, and was released in the morning.
— Sean Piccoli, Deadline, 26 July 2024 -
He was booked into the county lockup at 11:38 a.m. and is being held without bond.
— Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023 -
In video released June 20, Rodriguez is seated at a desk with a computer in the city lockup.
— Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2023 -
In video released June 20, Rodriguez is seen seated at a desk with a computer in the city lockup.
— Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024 -
Band-Aid repairs costing millions of dollars have been common at the lockup through the years.
— Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019 -
Campos was then held in the Gresham District station’s lockup for about five hours.
— Paige Fry, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2022 -
The lockup period expires at year-end, giving Uber the option to sell or reduce the stake.
— Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2021 -
Thus far, they have been held in small classrooms above the lockup's gymnasium.
— Frank E. Lockwood, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023 -
The plot comes to a boil when a deadly attack at the grocery store leads to the lockup of an exuberant boy named Dodo, who is deaf.
— Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023 -
As the week’s first day ground on, the killings piled up: An inmate was stabbed in his cell at the federal lockup in downtown Los Angeles.
— Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2020 -
Last May, more than 100 migrants and refugees broke out from one of the lockups, fleeing under their captors’ gunfire.
— Lori Hinnant, The Seattle Times, 25 Mar. 2019 -
When taken into the lockup, officers removed her belt and shoe laces and handcuffed her to a bench.
— Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2022 -
The lockup agreement that kept Trump from selling expired this afternoon.
— Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2024 -
Concerns surrounding the lockup, which prohibited shareholders who own 5% or more of shares or those who serve in high-level management positions from selling their shares, sent Trump Media’s stock into the red amid fears Trump would sell his stake.
— Ty Roush, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
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