Locks in a sentence

Ship passing under wires heading to the Port of Montreal Locks in the Saint Lawrence River Iroquois Locks There are seven locks in the Saint Lawrence River portion of the Seaway.

The police officer asked the public to consider installing devices such as wheel locks and remote locks.

Among the crime prevention initiatives of the Project Safe Delivery program include hardening blue collection boxes to make it more difficult for criminals access to their contents and installing electronic locks to replace the older arrow locks.

In 2017, Stabenow led a bipartisan Congressional delegation on a tour of the Soo Locks, highlighting the importance of the Locks to our state’s and nation’s economy and national security and the urgent need for modernization.

The Fort Morgan Police Department strongly encourages all residents to keep their cars locked at all times and locks on trailers with hitch locks.

Use visible anti-theft devices such as steering wheel locks, pedal locks, etc.

By the early 18th century, river navigations such as the Aire and Calder Navigation were becoming quite sophisticated, with pound locks and longer and longer "cuts" (some with intermediate locks) to avoid circuitous or difficult stretches of river.

Dams and locks Dams along the Main There are 34 dams and locks along the 380 km navigable portion of the Main, from the confluence with the Regnitz near Bamberg, to the Rhine. citation * No.: Number of the lock (from upstream to downstream).

In the 1950s, Seaway designers chose not to build the locks to match the size of ships permitted by the 1914 locks at the Panama Canal (convert, known as the Panamax limit).

Locks are considered less effective than keeping firearms stored in a lockable safe since locks are more easily defeated than approved safes.

Locks Trigger lock fitted to the trigger of a revolver There are several types of locks that serve to make it difficult to discharge a firearm.

Locks worn for stylish reasons are sometimes referred to as "bathroom locks", to distinguish them from the kind that are purely natural.

Love locks on the Brookmainlyn Bridge " Love locks " is a practice by which a couple inscribes a date and their initials onto a lock, attach it to the bridge, and throw the key into the water as a sign of their "everlasting love".

Opportunistic locks Opportunistic locks (oplocks) allow clients to alter their buffering strategy for a given file or stream in order to increase performance and reduce network use.

The 2006 third set of locks project has created larger locks, allowing bigger ships to transit through deeper and wider channels.

The Huitong Canal, built by an engineer called Ma Zhizhen, ran across sharply sloping ground and the high concentration of locks gave it the nicknames chahe or zhahe, i.e. 'the river of locks'.

The new locks allow transit of larger, Post-Panamax ships, which have a greater cargo capacity than the previous locks were capable of handling.

The new locks are supported by new approach channels, including a convert channel at Miraflores from the locks to the Gaillard Cut, skirting Miraflores Lake.

The New Seawaymax locks would permit a ship convert longer and convert wider than the Panamax ships permitted by the Panama Canal's 1914 locks.

According to the force, more than a quarter of summer burglaries happen when people leave keys in locks or within reach of open windows, doors unlocked, or windows ajar when they leave the room or go out.