21 example sentences using lock.
Lock used in a sentence
Lock in a sentence as a noun
Tear apart a Kwikset keypad lock and see how few gears it has.
A key to a lock you don't own and a lock that can be changed at any time.
Do not go back to the van and lock yourself away and watch stuff on the internet.
Light up an LED to indicate unlocking for all anyone cares.
If Google had a lock-in on Office products, looks like they will ditch "open data" and "open standards" in a heartbeat.
And the more they try to lock it down the worse their products become and the better piracy looks in comparison.
So font selection becomes this life-or-death thing: it can lock you out of the product completely.
Those factories will gladly OEM an entire lock for you -- or in this case just sell you the parts or the whole assembled mechanism.
The continued existence of Craigslist is just a testimony to the enormous strength of network effect lock in.
The fact is you can get a number of low cost electrical locks from China today that have reliable turning mechanisms.
Fear of data loss... it's probably the largest part of my mistrust of all these dang cloud services that want to control/own me or otherwise lock me into their service.
Lock in a sentence as a verb
It means critical functionality being there, like unlocking via BLE and unlocking via WiFi.
Let's just ignore him, and start startups and get everyone to accept our vendor lock-in and remain blissfully unaware how we're harming everyone.
The biggest complaint is that when my friends and peers objected to App Engine, its strange requirements and its potential lock in, they were right and I am a ******* naive idiot.
If we really cared about benchmark performance over anything else we would have dealt with the locking issues earlier so multi-threaded benchmarks would be better.
If you want verification that replication is working at write time, you can do it with w=2 getLastError parameter.> 3. MongoDB requires a global write lock to issue any write> Under a write-heavy load, this will **** you.
During one surreal leadership presentation where hundreds of people joined via a web meeting and many more were present in person, someone forgot to lock down presenter rights, and people kept drawing on the slides.
Here are some other reasons:1- WiFi drains battery fast, therefore advertising instant WiFi unlocking was foolish, if not purposefully misleading from the beginning.
It sounds from the story that the thing they're most upset about is missing an opportunity to lock down the whole airport while they dressed up as storm troopers and traipsed about in their armored doohickeys pretending to save the world.
There were two other doctors on the server who managed to offer buffs for most of the month, and whilst I never talked to them, I noticed that they never went below whatever price I set. Our little oligopoly had a total lock on the buff market - it was a golden age!When I quit the game a couple of months later, I had millions in credits which I sold for a few thousand $US.
Removing the ability to have threads will force people to pay attention to who they're talking to and have a coherent discussions instead of snarky oneliners.- Moderators need to be able to lock down threads that are getting out of control.- When the article is off the front page, the discussion quickly dies off with it.
Lock definitions
a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence"
become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck"
become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace"
See also: interlock
hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit"
place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
pass by means through a lock in a waterway
build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels