How to Use lockdown in a Sentence

lockdown

noun

• At the time, Shanghai was in the midst of a two-month Covid lockdown.
  — Laura He, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
• But covid-era lockdowns sent the legion of state workers home, and the city’s rocket petered out.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
• Increase in money supply to cushion the impact of lockdowns led to high demand for goods; producers unable to match up.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• The Covid-19 pandemic further boosted sales as lockdowns encouraged more at-home cooking — but the lift did not last.
  — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024
• Then the slow return of audiences and also the initial lack of Hollywood product to put on screen as lockdown measures eased affected the firm.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2023
• The lockdown came the day after a 14-year-old boy was arrested for a school shooting in Georgia that left four dead and multiple people injured.
  — Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 5 Sep. 2024
• Lots of cooks and creatives left the city, at least in the thick of lockdowns.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 3 May 2024
• The pandemic lockdown kept Starr off the road for two years.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
• Things felt eerily similar to the first few days of the Covid lockdown.
  — Mira Ptacin, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• The data shows the effect of the Covid lockdowns and weak recovery last year.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024
• The back of the heel is cradled instead by a snug heel collar, which is good for heel lockdown.
  — Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2024
• Still, with lockdown closer Evan Phillips emerging from the bullpen, the lead appeared to be safe.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
• The lockdown was lifted around 2:30 p.m., and the school planned to dismiss students as normal.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• And then the Panthers stayed true to their typical brand of lockdown defense in the third to hold off the Oilers.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024
• After lockdown, the world opened up for the lucky laptop workers.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2024
• Like so many, Emily and her husband, Matt, were in lockdown.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• But the evening became the starting point for a wider project about young people, lockdown and mental health.
  — Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
• Accepting the agent’s challenge, Li spent the lockdown year churning out a draft.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
• There should be a 9/11-type commission that dissects the pros and cons of the lockdown for public perusal.
  — Readers, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
• If her centerstage persona took off during lockdown, Mutant;Destrudo might point to the birth of a new era.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2023
• Well, not so much because those episodes came out about two weeks into lockdown.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 3 May 2023
• Eight percent of the respondents said a lockdown due to reports of a firearm happened more than once that year.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• The actress told The Sunday Times that her child became her hair stylist during lockdown.
  — Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024
• Following the Covid-19 lockdown, schools reopened, but many students have not come back — even to this day.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 18 Jan. 2024
• Many had slashed the size of their fleets and laid off thousands of employees just to stay afloat as Covid-19 lockdowns throttled air travel.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• In the wake of a global lockdown, downtown pessimism had a different tone.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Paul was a vocal critic of lockdown measures put in place as a result of the pandemic.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
• And during Britain’s first Covid lockdown, the company shared the recipe online so bereft customers could make their own.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• First, lockdowns pushed millions of low-wage employees out of work.
  — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2024
• In 2020, Johan and I were sitting at the kitchen table soon after lockdown began.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024