How to Use lockup in a Sentence

lockup

noun

• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• He was booked into the county lockup at 11:38 a.m. and is being held without bond.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• 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 maximum sentence for one count of wire fraud is 20 years in federal lockup.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2021
• Authorities said Reeves brought gym shoes and a cell phone to an inmate who was housed in the county’s Bessemer lockup.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 7 Mar. 2022
• With the initial jail built in 1954 and four additions in the decades after, areas of the lockup were getting outdated.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2024
• Now, a bullet is not the appropriate response to every lockup, any more than anyone with a gun is the right person for the job.
  — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2023
• The 59-year-old British socialite was brought to the courtroom in Lower Manhattan from a lockup in Brooklyn where she has been held without bail.
  — NBC News, 29 Nov. 2021
• Some research suggests the shoplifting problem these lockups are combatting is overblown.
  — Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024