Lockdown means The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case o... This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like imprisonment.

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Lockdown meaning

  1. The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.
  2. A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.

Synonyms of Lockdown

imprisonment internment

Example sentences (20)

As home secretary, she defended the way police enforced lockdown measures, despite criticism of their approach.

After moving to England before Covid hit in early 2020, the 38-year-old turned to the kitchen during lockdown.

As many people in the stories shared with me expressed, the post-lockdown life was truly a wakeup call.

But home every night during the lockdown, Wallace was able to see how much she was actually drinking.

Boris Johnson's defence against claims he lied to parliament about whether he knew about Downing Street lockdown parties could be.

A fifth of Brits would support the reintroduction of lockdown measures should the health situation need them, a new poll has found.

A young mother of one, with another on the way, she had spent much of the lockdown days of the pandemic reading up on climate change.

A police dragnet was launched to find Sellers, with local businesses issued his description and a primary school placed into lockdown.

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At a time of crisis when India unites, the lockdown should not mean a lockdown of the rights of the working poor.

But we wanted to make it different and more special than the normal tasting events which we have been organising since the end of lockdown.

But not all areas of the country will come out of lockdown, with birds in some areas – including large parts of Norfolk – remaining indoors.

When he does give time lines, such as the three weeks for the lockdown, within one week he's threatening a tighter lockdown.

With Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti on total lockdown, as we speak, the calls for total lockdown of Oyo appears to be on the rise.

According to the International Trade Commission, the U.S. imported roughly $12 billion worth of Made in China toys in the lockdown year of 2020.

And as an 'essential worker', I was able to work from my office for most of lockdown.

By this point the country had entered the first coronavirus lockdown and she had returned to live with her ex-partner, the father of her children.

After the lockdown was lifted, I got a job as a computer operator in a private job.

The last lockdown review was on May 28 after the Government published its "roadmap" for getting Britain out of lockdown on May 11.

According to today's hearing, key government figures agreed on March 14 that a lockdown was needed, however, it took another 10 days for that to happen.

The longer a country takes to go into lockdown, the longer the lockdown must last to bring cases down to a level that TTI can manage.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "lockdown" in a sentence?
An example: "As home secretary, she defended the way police enforced lockdown measures, despite criticism of their approach." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "lockdown" from real English texts.
What does "lockdown" mean?
Lockdown means: The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.
What are synonyms of "lockdown"?
Common synonyms of "lockdown" include: imprisonment, internment.
How many example sentences with "lockdown" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "lockdown", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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