How to Use lockout in a Sentence

lockout

1 of 2 noun
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  • Last year’s lockout forced the Reds to open the season on the road for the first time since 1990.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Must be the lockout changing the schedule, the COO said.
    — Mike Bass Special To The Cincinnati Enquirer Usa Today Network, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Given the lockout, there wasn’t a ton of time for change.
    — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The show also wasn't produced in 2011 due to the NFL lockout.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Like the ups and downs of the lockout, Civale went through his share of highs and lows last season.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The long-term effect of the lockout remains to be seen.
    — Jay Cohen, courant.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • So that’s the hard part of this whole dynamic right now, in terms of the lockout.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2021
  • After my first year, which was the lockout year, that was very hard.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • This all stems from the lockout that pushed back the start of the regular season by a week.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 30 June 2022
  • Before the lockout, the Phillies signed Corey Knebel to be their closer.
    — Mike Fitzpatrick, ajc, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The Guardians caught a break when the Rule 5 Draft was canceled following the lockout.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Many have cited the MLB lockout as a big factor in the low turnout this spring.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Biden does not have the power to prevent a strike or lockout once again.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Last year, it was canceled due to the lockout, marking the first time in 130 years that some form of the draft did not take place.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2022
  • That means there are players in camp right now who could be taken in the Rule 5 when the lockout ends.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The first week of the season was postponed because of the lockout (that seems like a million years ago).
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The series had been rescheduled from the start of the 2022 season due to the owners’ lockout of players.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The two worked together for just over a month before the lockout.
    — Kristie Ackert, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2022
  • The Sox had a meeting over Zoom with Story and his wife, Mallie, before the lockout.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2022
  • But because of the lockout and the latest delay, all of that remains on hold.
    — NBC News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • But the year that stumbled out of the blocks following a 99-day lockout had much more than the 4.8 miles of home runs off Judge's bat.
    — Jim Sergent, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Players and the league had met just six times on core economics during the first 2 1/2 months of the lockout.
    — Ronald Blum, Chron, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The deadline has been moved back a couple of times to give teams more time to recover from the lockout.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • Getting a late start in spring training thanks to the 99-day lockout isn't ideal.
    — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Across town in Queens, the Mets hired Buck Showalter after the lockout began.
    — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The Hollywood Teamsters have not gone on strike since a three-week lockout in 1988.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 28 July 2024
  • Prior to the lockout, Semien signed a seven-year, $175 million contract with the Rangers.
    — Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr., Forbes, 20 June 2022
  • In sum, there is no shortage of available directions for the Red Sox once the lockout ends.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The large spikes of containers are a result of shippers recently shifting their imports from Canadian ports due to the labor lockouts on the rails.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Barring employees from work, i.e., a lockout, is an aggressive step for any employer to take — especially for one that happens to be a labor union.
    — Emily Peck, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
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lock out

2 of 2 verb
  • Make sure right knee is soft (not locked out) and keep hands at sides.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 21 June 2023
  • Those who had the appetite but not the resources are locked out, too.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The man seemed out of sorts and said something about being locked out of his house.
    — cleveland, 22 July 2023
  • A lot of wealthy Russians are locked out of the West and have no way to get their money out.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
  • The union has not endured a work stoppage since it was locked out by the studios in 1988.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 3 July 2024
  • Keep your core tight, your spine neutral, and your legs straight (but don't lock out your knees).
    — Men's Health, 6 Jan. 2023
  • There’s no plot to lock out Blacks and Latinos, just a system that’s skewed over time and can be fixed.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 7 May 2024
  • If the number had gone down, I probably would’ve been locked out of the edit.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Her friend had planned to read and make notes on one of Renee’s stories and was surprised to be locked out.
    — Madeline Ashby, WIRED, 2 May 2024
  • Some who didn’t finish the form on the first try or needed to correct a mistake were locked out.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Those who weren’t able to buy in the low-rate heyday in 2020 now feel locked out for the foreseeable future.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Though they’re not locked up, they’re locked out of key aspects of society.
    — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 5 Oct. 2023
  • They are locked in, and as a result, families hoping to buy their first homes are locked out.
    — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 2 June 2024
  • More:Why did Major League Baseball owners lock out players and shut down the game?
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Other visitors claimed they were locked out of their rooms.
    — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The new outlook is not good for first-time buyers, who will continue to be locked out of the market by the higher rates.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • If the court approves of the reason for the immediate eviction, the renter can be locked out within days.
    — AZCentral.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The stretchy and lightweight fabric is made of nylon and spandex and is designed to lock out moisture.
    — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Now they are locked out of the national banking network.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 3 May 2024
  • On Friday, signers of the open letter said they had been locked out of the site’s internal dashboard.
    — WIRED, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Josh Powell locked out the social worker from the home upon their arrival.
    — Joseph Diaz, ABC News, 26 July 2024
  • Kids were locked out of schools and later subjected to mask and vaccine mandates.
    — Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, WSJ, 11 June 2023
  • At random intervals, we were locked out of first and reverse.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But what if Piastri and Norris lock out the front row with Piastri on pole?
    — Rob Reed, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Wednesday, after which the owners could lock out the players and put a halt to all free-agent and trade activity.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Nov. 2021
  • More Americans have been locked out of the housing market while also paying more and more each month to rent.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Then lock out any rear suspension or walk bumpy sections.
    — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 1 June 2021
  • Ten hours later, he was given a one-hour window to return home before the checkpoint closed and he was locked out—or in—for the next two days.
    — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Officers were initially called to the parking lot to help a driver who was locked out of their car, police said at the time.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • But in the second round of voting in early July, the center and left parties withdrew their weaker candidates, and the RN was once again locked out of power.
    — Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2024

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