She unplugged her air hose and unlatched the steel door and entered an air lock, and Tony Johnson followed her. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew better than to lock her in to only one explanation. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Morrie talked about his most fearful moments, when he felt his chest locked in heaving surges or when he wasn’t sure where his next breath would come from. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep the zipper locked or you’ll wake up being spooned by a bum.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

"The only reason it sounds good is because you're not locked into it. I don't have any choice." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” I said automatically, because when our eyes locked, even from a few feet away, Nazario’s eyes told me all I needed to know. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Lydia tucked a lock of her hair behind her ear. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I picked the lock easily and nudged the door open with my toe. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Tonight we are leaving that window closed and locked.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“On Sundays he plucks hairs from her chin. They keep their money refrigerated under lock and key.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then, locking and bolting the door, he prepared for bed. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Her muscles had locked up; a high whine of terror filled her head. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"And what good would that do? They can't stop him, either, short of locking him up, or cutting out his tongue. All it will do is bring out me own part in this matter." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The episode was finished, with the snapping of the lock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Fingers trembling, he put a key into the lock of the cell. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nothing good, I imagined, could be happening inside if so many locks had to be breached to go in or step out. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lockers in the quad were dented, covered in graffiti and stickers, and most freshmen got stuck with locks that actually didn’t close. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’d stay in one of the stalls with the door locked and my feet propped up so that no one would recognize my shoes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This is how I came to be locked in a car with them for nearly a week. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He takes a large, leather-bound notebook from his coat, a perfect copy of one that has been safely locked in his office. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Keeps it locked up, I suppose. I didn’t think much of him. I don’t believe he’s going to help us now.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One of the doors somehow got locked, and now everyone is pushing and shoving as they try to get out through the only one that still opens. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I used to have a diary, but I filled it up a long time ago. It had a lock,” I told Georgie. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He saw four figures pass through four doors and heard the turning of four locks and the shooting of four bolts. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I’m not even sure I believed in the lock anymore. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I want to go to my room, but I know she’ll follow me, and the lock on the door doesn’t work. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“One way or the other. But don’t decide who he is before he has a chance to tell you that himself. Now lock the door behind us.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I step into the dark, lock the doors and walk quickly. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I locked Fig into a snuggle and kissed his wet nose. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Eliza combed through a lock of hair stuck together with dried jam. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A fourth door, and a fifth, on and on until you reach a thirteenth, a little locked door no bigger than a shoe.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I heard the slight sound of a key being turned in the lock and then I heard the door shut. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She couldn't hang, and two hundred meters into the lap, she rigged and fell back, as if her legs locked up on her and she had to pull up or something. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sefia twisted a couple of locks of hair in her fingers and looked to the book, where it lay in the nest of rope like an egg, ready to hatch. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

All the gold thread was kept locked in a cupboard. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

So as I slide out of the foliage and into the dawn light, I pause a second, giving the cameras time to lock on me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Behind this door is another locked door, slightly smaller.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dad froze and turned, locking eyes with Mom before looking at Ivy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

You would think Miss Saunders would lock up her room like the other teachers do. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

At last, however, I found one door at the top of the stairway which, though it seemed to be locked, gave a little under pressure. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He turned away from the window to lock eyes with me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

For the past six weeks, she had been locked up in this place, detoxing, doing both group and individual therapy, taking pensive walks, exercising, eating right. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We got out of Columbia, and locked the hatch behind us. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadows in the shape of skulls, skulls that turned to mist, bodies locked together in lust, writhing and rolling and clawing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When they had suited up and gone in, there had been five monkey carcasses waiting for them in the air lock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a busy day ahead, every minute of it scheduled with meetings, but my mind would stay locked on our daughters. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The locked enclosure over the latch should be easy enough to crack open with the right tool. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She's wrapped in the arms of a young man—legs, arms, and lips locked together. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean you don’t lock your doors?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which had all somehow come in through a closed and locked window. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The guard slowly unchained him, removing his handcuffs and the shackles around his ankles, and then locked eyes with me and told me I had one hour. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, why did they lock her out, not letting her help her sister answer questions and spell her name? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the smell of blue electricity blowing under the locked door. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they’d have to remove the lock of hair after the bomb was set up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And wanting to be alone with my own thoughts as I was now, locked behind the bathroom door.... Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"This case is a lock. I have a statement by everyone popped that Gantos was part of the operation. Not to mention that Rik—who hired him—is set to testify." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Nor was it unwarranted: in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding lock, warned me my watch was relieved. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And she was smiling, too, which was a good thing or I would have turned right around and dashed into the house and locked the door. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bass player was locked in there also, so every walking quarter note he played was pulsing in exact time with Brian’s left foot hi-hat clicks. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Venus had locked the door, but there were the windows. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t blame you. You kids. Running wild. Some of you need locking up, I’ll tell you.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But they were armed; and even if he—somehow—killed or subdued them both, he’d still be locked in the cell with them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The lock is one of those old-fashioned sorts where you slide the chain sideways, so she does this. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

People have either been locked up or are on the streets dealing drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The great gates were closed and locked; but a wicket in one of them was only latched. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He turned back to the keyhole before him, where Mr. Desanti, the ninth-grade math teacher, had tried to force his key into the lock and splintered the toothpick deep into the cylinders. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stepped inside, closed the door, and locked it behind me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The door clicked locked behind her, and Eleanor crouched against it, letting herself fall apart. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I slide my hands over my smooth conk, down to my neck bone, fingers locking tight. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry stood beside them, his old binoculars locked on the boat, a grin on his weathered face. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When she came to, she was in a car, locked in the back, with a splitting headache that her pain nanites were struggling to subdue. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But I fumble and twist at the lock anyway, then fling open the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I remembered to shut the outer pantry door when Tessa Koster came in, but I don’t think I locked the secret shelf inside. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As we entered the house, I saw that she had locked all the doors and windows and pulled all of the shades. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But look how old that lock is. It looks like it’ll break if I breathe on it too hard.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We lock them into a flat Tupperware container he’s confiscated from his house and leave it sitting out in plain view for the next person who comes here. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The heat clings to my shoulders as I’m locking my door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She got out her key and was about to put it in the lock when the door flew open. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was coming out of it, Katie locked him in the bedroom where he couldn’t get anything more to drink. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started out the door, went back and locked it, then started to bust down the stairs. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The only solution to the problem is ingenious: transform a molecule from a solution to a crystal—and its atoms are instantly locked into position. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

However, his eyes and Will’s locked together, and each of them knew what was going to happen: they were going to fight, and it was going to be brutal and deadly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the gritty shipyards and boat works clustered around the locks were largely quiet, nearly abandoned in fact. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The door there was not locked, and when she opened it she saw a familiar stairway. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew she should get used to carrying a pistol, but the weight threw off her balance, and guns could jam or lock in a bad moment. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I pointed at the doors and said, “Are those locked?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had not shorn the bright locks of his hair; they ran rippling down his back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran from the room and locked my bedroom door, burying my face in the pillow so no one could hear me cry. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a trick they’d used plenty of times when a lock was too complicated to pick quickly or they wanted to make a theft look like an inside job. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We heard him open the office door and step inside, and then the awful sound of the click as he turned the lock. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When she noticed a locked book with an intriguing title, she had quit the search in order to test her keys. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

After we had tied the skiff high above the wrack line, we took Mouse inside with us and locked the door and all the windows but the one next to Osh’s bed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Inserting her picks into the lock, she set to work. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The sea spray hit my eyes, but I locked my attention on him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The gate was locked, the compound empty and she waited around for an hour until the crowd began to disperse. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It took everything in Jam to not reach out and touch his arm, but Pet’s hand was locked around hers, and she couldn’t spoil the hunt. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

This book is the key that will open the lock to the door to a new life. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an officer outside the locked front gate of the block, wondering why nobody was answering the bell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The filing cabinets had locks, but they were child’s play. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

With keys to count, and cupboards to lock. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gale and Leeg 1 shoot through the front door lock of the corner building, then begin to fire at the cables holding Mitchell’s net. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Jackson starts to work on the lock, glancing up at me, his expression nearly unreadable in the dark. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to open the kitchen door but it was locked. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He acknowledged that there was no way we could predict how exactly we’d manage things, given that neither of us wanted to be locked into the comfortable predictability of a lawyer’s life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“There is a new hiding place; he’s locked it up somewhere else.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I locked the car, tried to pat down my puffy hair, and whispered, “I’m a ninja.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A collision with a small boulder could have sent the spacecraft tumbling wildly out of control, its antenna unable to lock on the Earth, its data lost forever. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cradles my face in her hands and locks eyes with me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Once the safe got locked by mistake and no one knew the combination. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, Lexie locked the bathroom door and opened the box. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. I have her locked in a tower and never let her out. She’ll have to grow her hair and escape through the window if she ever wants to leave. Please, Paul.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As they reached the gate, he pulled off his clawed gauntlet and the sweaty glove beneath, locked one arm around the dwarf’s neck, and roughly rubbed his head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I chewed the ends of my hair, so that there was always one lock of hair that was pointed and wet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door to Great Hall was not locked. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You are never wrong, in prison, to lock a gate,” a sergeant had reassured us at lineup one day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And because the house was locked and dark, and because she only believed in forty-watt bulbs, her lipstick mouth had shifted slightly off her real mouth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only my curiosity about the people who lived behind these walls ended where the façades of the buildings opened into dark hallways or locked doors. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Two motor patrol boats, tied and locked securely, bobbed in the water as Baba’s nauka bumped into the dock. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they left the room, Rosa always locked the door. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mine was attempting to pop and lock to “Boom Boom Pow” in front of them. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“II I ever lose my brains and lock you up somewhere, you bust out and then you—you bite me and kick me and tie me up and throw me over the cliff, y’hear?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I gave them a couple of minutes to lock in, then stood near the brake and hollered, “Step in, gentlemen!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept her doors and windows locked, unless she was using them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evan carried the key and the lock box back to his room and sat on the bed. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The old man finished closing up and double-checked the lock on his booth. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He realized it and, without another word, locked himself in his room. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam insisted we all stay in the house with the doors and windows locked. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My knuckles found the lock and depressed it. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“All you’ve got to do is lock down the construction site for the next forty-eight hours. Think you can handle that?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand motionless, my eyes locked on him, considering plans of retreat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And a few fed-up souls began to push back against efforts of whites in nearby neighborhoods to lock them out. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He began locking me in his garage or bathroom so I couldn’t leave. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mom quickly locked the doors, and we peeled out. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He banged the lids of his trunks shut and locked them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” I said, meeting him in front of the apartment as he turned to lock the door. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She says that crews are busy locking away the beaches behind a network of concertina wire and huge wooden jacks called chevaux de frise. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I spent the next hour locked in my bathroom, staring at my tongue. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Tizerkane guards were silent silhouettes in their watchtowers, and the golden faranji returned directly to his laboratory and locked himself inside. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The bathroom door did not give when I tried to open it, and I pushed harder to make sure it was really locked. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d feel myself falling, shove my hands forward and lock my elbows and shoulders as tightly as I could, and fall. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to take Miss Maggie home,” he said, locking the window by his bed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His fingers were locked loosely together in his lap, like he was thinking about praying. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Dede had pulled the door to, letting the old lock catch again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran down to the room, unlocked the door, closed it, and locked it from the inside. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I thought of the fat smelly markers that cost two-fifty each, the leather diaries that locked with little keys, the battery-operated fans that you could wear on a string around your neck on hot days. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

With one great leap, Harry managed to grab the key, slam the door, and lock it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

How perfect Cammy had become in his memory, how much more desirable for having stepped behind a locked door! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hear Mrs. Byrne rustle down the stairs, undo the heavy locks, open the squeaky door. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dude ruined my funeral and got my friends locked up, I get to deck him again and don’t try to tell me I’m wrong. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Bod pushed open the mausoleum door, and then locked it again behind them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

That door was three inches of solid oak with an auto lock; you'd need a chain saw to get through it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“What would you have done if the door hadn’t been locked?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t bother to lock it, although he pocketed the keys. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When she saw him, she made an instinctive motion to arrange a lock of hair that had fallen over her forehead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s nuts\\ He swears that his university professor had him locked up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was hidden deep inside the embassy walls and could be entered only through an unmarked door sealed with a cipher lock. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cows have more meat and, locked up in pens, are easier to catch. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

We and our pathogens are now locked in an escalating evolutionary contest, with the death of one contestant the price of defeat, and with natural selection playing the role of umpire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was locked, of course, but she had a hairpin, and the lock was simple. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I lock the doors of Tatarska 3 and check every window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I think of Madoc’s grim expression, jaw locked, doubtlessly unused to children, no less human ones. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I jiggle the lever, but it is firmly locked. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They shoved them into the armoire and locked it. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of people are released from prison every year, only to find themselves locked out of the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Business owners locked their doors and joined the uncounted thousands of servicemen and civilians in the celebration that lasted through the night. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I took him by the arm into the bathroom; locked the door and put on the light. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Despite signing up for the show herself, Priscilla goes into freak-out mode, locking herself in a bathroom stall and crying herself silly. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She’d gotten a lock on her door and I’d learned to pick it so I could sneak in and scare her still. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

A thin robotic arm extended a circular device that looked like a retinal scanner, which locked into place directly level with the pupil of my right eye. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For nights on end, she would double-check all the window locks, making sure that they were fastened tighdy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course there are no longer any locks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flashed a blindingly white smile, as her manicured nails brushed a lock of relaxed hair behind her ear. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a locked door and a window cracked open, wisps of fragrant steam curling from the gap. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Civilians should go home and lock your doors. Do not peer out of windows.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next moment arms locked around me from behind. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘The Archimedes lock on the door,’ Hazel recalled. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

With fumbling fingers he got it into the lock and pushed the door open. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It takes two keys to open it, and the assistant director seems inexperienced with the lock. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I keep locking my legs so the seat doesn’t shift, but I’m afraid I’m going to break through the bottom of the truck. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Millions of young men and women all over the country had locked themselves away from the world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Hugo, gather up these drawings and lock them in the armoire.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He turns the lock on the door and says for God’s sake will someone come down and watch the window and bring Hirsch. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The emperor’s face was frozen in a glare, and his arms were locked in an empty grip, as if even in his final moments he was grasping. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Back to where it was clean and safe and their houses waited for them on quiet streets with locked doors. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But when the women went to open the front door of the church, they found that it was locked. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Now she pushed back a stray lock with dirty fingers, leaving a dark streak on her face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry watched, astounded, as Dumbledore placed the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth keys in their respective locks, reopening the trunk, and each time revealing different contents. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Alex is living for it, watching Henry come undone, letting him be whatever he needs to be while alone with Alex behind a locked door. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Janae always has a pin in her hair, and it only takes her a second to crack open the lock. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"Right, so what do they think? Do they think you murdered me and put me down the garbage disposer or something? Or maybe I'm locked in a closet? Come on, Mom. Get real." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those things, all locked up, and then these just get handed to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Javier didn’t seem to know who to look to, and yet Moss was surprised when he locked eyes with him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Chester, “but I’m not so keen on staying in a cage. I’m more used to tree stumps and holes in the ground. It makes me sort of nervous to be locked in here.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I locked up the office and hustled down the gallery to see who was available. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute went by, and then the key turned very quietly in the lock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But, as she did every night, Blanca had locked her door and slipped out the window in the direction of the river. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had checked three times now, and the door was still locked. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the first several days at dusk, I would ask why we weren't closing the shades, turning down the lights, and locking the doors. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He sweeps a stray lock of hair back from her forehead. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just as his gaze locked on mine, Mike, who had the football at that point, mowed him over to get to the makeshift end zone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I could see Edward illuminated in the glare of the new car’s headlights; he was still staring ahead, his gaze locked on something or someone I couldn’t see. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He went on; he felt the door under his hand at last and now he could hear Miss Coldfield’s whimpering breathing beyond it as he fumbled for the lock. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed me the wooden case he’d brought with him and the lock on it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of locks being undone, of bolts being pulled, the rattle of a chain. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I locked myself in my room when I got home, waited for a knock on the door and for her family to be on the other side.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She was locked up, and he was free, and she deserved every bit of it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He glanced about considering what things would have to be locked up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all his plottings, Luke had never thought of the screen door being locked. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

After she locked it, she took a last look at the dejected group of people around her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

To bypass the locked circuit, start the engine, steer the boat out of dock under the pier-lamps and so off to Orgoreyn, having never run a motorboat, seemed a silly desperate venture. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He tried the door but it was locked. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now that Beatrice was gone, there was nobody to unlock her door in the mornings, which meant that Lady Isobel could not lock her in at night, either. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach into my pocket for the bobby pin I carry with me, just in case, and bend down to examine the lock. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As long as Lazlo was awake, she was locked out on the doorstep of his mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We stand, our backs pressed together, our empty hands locked tight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ida let him suit himself, but she locked him in as a precaution. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the man, Roza slapped at the glass, scratched at the door, trying to find the lock. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The first of the town houses look empty: windows shuttered, doors locked, vegetable gardens overgrown and untended. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Oakes swept and dusted and talked to the house, locked it and returned home to her cottage. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is aching to see my mother in a locked police car. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We giggled at one another like schoolgirls, and I bade her lock my door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But at least two families will pull their shutters, lock their doors, and try to figure out how they will survive the painful weeks to come. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sound of his key turning in the lock brought back my time in the City Hall dungeon with the madwoman and the rats. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where is he? Have you got him? Is he locked up?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Someday I’ll see him again, and we’ll tell our stories to each other... but for now I lock him safely away, in a place where I can draw on his strength. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Once he had us inside the dimly lit, bare living room, Karim locked the front door, pulled the tattered sheets that passed for curtains. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out my wallet and started searching for my thin card to open the lock again. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The door is closed, and the lock, which is a board that lies across two brackets, is tilted and is almost out at one end. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She steps through the gate and is about to lock it behind her when a male voice says, “Good morning, mademoiselle.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In Henrietta’s day, Turner Station was a town where you never locked your doors. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll help you with the form after you lock in,” I told him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we’d put on clean clothes and locked the door, Osh and I spread the treasure out in front of the hearth while Miss Maggie lit a fire in the stove. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“When who locked you up in what shed?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if they locked us in,” Alec said as he finally stood. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Jay’s at class and Trey’s at work, so I lock up the house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And her aunt will then cry and lock herself in the bathroom. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stomped over to the other closet door and locked it too. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Why else have they locked us in here?” one said. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I shall lock the door and secure the key the same as before, though I do not expect any trouble to-night. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Shall was a storybook word that Uncle Darnell never used in bedtime stories of Arabian Knights or princesses locked in the tower. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Though she had lived in America as an eternal exile, a visitor for forty years, certain bits of her adopted country had been seeping under the locked doors of her dis-approval. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nancy opened the far door of the air lock, and they crossed over to the hot side. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the entrance of the key in the lock; and the report of its revolution. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If he misses curfew, he will be locked out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure they have some way of letting their customers get into those bins. I’m sure I’m not the first person in history to have locked a key inside.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light over the door, which usually came on automatically at night, wasn't working, and it took Elinor a ridiculous amount of time to get her key into the lock. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The “pigeon-house” stood behind a locked gate, and a shallow parterre that had been somewhat neglected. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was locked into a maintenance role: He was a custodian for the system who was unlikely to overturn the previous judgment, even if there was compelling evidence of innocence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She locked her arm in his as they went into the theater, feeling the flesh of his bicep. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Iron rod threaded through three rusted loops, old mortise lock with a rusty cam. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Obediently, he crawled out, letting the guard hold his elbow to escort him inside past the locked doors. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And I lock the door as he tries to get out. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She has learned that she can control her emotions by thinking of her chest cavity as an enormous box with a chain lock. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’m so busy analyzing it, I don’t pull away in a hurry like I should, and instead just stand there, mouth locked with him. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

How Cha-Cha had locked him out of the theater. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We walk in through doors unlocked before us and locked again behind us. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

For a moment she feared that the door might be locked, but it opened easily under her hand. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

This is much, much worse than being locked inside. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

We could go home, lock the door, and fight over the TV like we always do, or we could help Daddy at the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

En route to lunch the next day, as I approached my locker, I noticed the door was open; someone had hammered the lock and dumped out my books. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stand there a while, locked in an embrace, feeling each other, the sunlight, the rustle of the leaves at our feet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Mancini says it’s a good thing she has always been in the habit of locking their bedroom door in order to get some privacy. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

You fellows, you're always locked up in these big houses helping out, how do you ever get to see around this beautiful country of yours?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Being restricted to an orphanage had been bad enough; she couldn’t imagine being locked in a cage with who knew what kind of actual criminals. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The combination to my lock is the same. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The physical remains of a saint — even a fingernail or a lock of hair—were believed to be charged with miraculous powers. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“What do they think they’re doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?” said Ron finally. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We all hurried up and put our instruments in the lock room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

At eleven o’clock at night, he decided it was time to go home, and he entered the air lock and pulled the chain to start the decon cycle. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mazen locked up everyone he thinks is against him. ‘Confining them,’ he says, for their own good. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Along the banks of the Wooded Island ice two feet thick locked Olmsted’s bulrush and sedge in cruel contortions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The campus fence wasn’t locked, so I was able to walk right up to the classrooms. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

St. John put away my books and his, locked his desk, and said— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So that night I feigned a flulike illness and locked myself in my room, then slipped out the window and climbed down a drainpipe to the ground. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He shut the door and locked it, then rounded on Anya and demanded, “Where on God’s earth did ye find that thing?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Lia needs to sleep for one hundred years in a locked glass box. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

His brother never used to lock his door or avoid him this way. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Part of me wanted to lock my sister in the apartment until the war was over. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then they had a precious hour before they were locked in their barracks for the night. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one of the military guards spots us and locks eyes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought I told you to lock the door. Didn’t I—” And then a scream and a thump. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They head for the stairway to keep on locking lips. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had helped him at count time once before, and when I complained about two inmates who were slow to lock in, Michaels replied that they were good guys. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lock the door tight and head back upstairs. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, but if this seems condescending, I assure you it’s not...but are you really locked to that flagpole?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My father put his key into the lock, and we stepped inside. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She heard the smile in his voice even though he kept his face turned away, his gaze locked on their enmeshed hands. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The filing cabinet in Dad’s office was locked, but I found the key right away, in the middle drawer of his desk. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then he led us down a long hall to another locked door. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Cecile was no kind of mother and had gotten herself locked up to prove it. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body was locked up tight, years ago, by the boundaries of her costly liberty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She locked the door behind her and lowered the blinds. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took them upstairs and locked myself in the bathroom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We already talked about this, me and Beatrice. We want to help you save the owls. Seriously, we’re locked and loaded.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs to my room, throwing the door shut and locking it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For the first few days we were kept locked in our cell and not even permitted outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you lock the doors when you go out, and be sure to turn off the lights.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Up into my bedroom, where, after locking the door, I pulled off my shirt before the mirror to see . . . that my mother was right. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I completely understand what you mean about feeling locked into yourself. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Without knowing what her foot was planning to do, she kicked the cabinet door with the worn lock under the sink. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes takes out scientific texts for him from the college library and he locks himself in his room to read for days at a time. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no keys or cupboards to lock. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no key hanging nearby, and he couldn’t tell whether the door was locked, even by looking closely. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I took them into my room and locked the door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crossing the room he locked the door to the pantry. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“I was afraid of that,” Colonel Korn remarked -with an elaborate sigh, locking his fingers together comfortably on top of his smooth, bald, broad, shiny brown head. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When the messenger is gone, the lady comes out onto the steps and stands with her arms locked, expressionless. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much nicer sounds to start the day with than the jail noises—sliding bolts, squeaking keys, rattling locks. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Did they lock her up? Like, in a real prison?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The floorboards creaked under his tread as he paced up and down outside the locked door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We rarely locked the doors so whatever was on that trailer must have been top secret. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in her life she locked it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only sheer luck that his child lock is on, and the door won’t open. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When we were all inside, the leader slammed the door and locked it behind us, slipping the key into his pocket. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I went to the front door, unbolted the top and bottom locks, and turned the knob. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then she feels her way back to the gate and locks it behind her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Roy hopped out from under the sheets, locked the door, and switched on his desk lamp. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bloom said, “We have nothing more to say,” pulled Linda back, shut the door and locked it, and leaned against it, shaking, unable to believe the way in which he had stood up to them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our holy men have better things to do, like locking themselves up in caves and reading sheep entrails. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Coraline locked the door with the key, and put the key back into her pocket. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I could feel the lock, but there was no catch on the inside. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see when they carried me to the broken freezer, when they locked me in and lined up outside. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We lock eyes and say at the same time, “The Department of Hidden Places.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Hamlet had a companion, a fellow with reddish locks and lanky limbs, who accompanied him everywhere. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sensing that this was an important meeting, Lydia tiptoed to the locked door and listened. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She checked to make sure her and her mother’s doors were locked. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The only rowboats the children saw were locked onto storage racks or tied on top of the cabins of the boats they belonged with. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hurried back into her house, pulled the back door shut, and locked it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When footsteps sound on the path and a key rattles in the lock, I untie the twine from the chair and hold it, the weight of the plant pulling at it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana marched up to the man and asked, “Why do you need to keep that door locked, anyway? No one else’s neighborhood is locked.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, my voice was locked away behind layers of caution and fear. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Kaz had done his best to teach her, but she didn’t quite have his way with breaking and entering, and it took her a few tries to finesse the lock. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

These young men are part of a growing undercaste, permanently locked up and locked out of mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When he reached the entrance hall he saw that Filch had forgotten to lock the front door. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The officer glanced at Dad, then at me, and then his eyes skimmed Mom and Laleh before locking back onto Dad. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He put his hand on my shoulder and said, “You need the lock.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The men were taught to pick locks, crack safes, set booby traps, and use poison. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I figured out that if a baby is bom in New York every 50 seconds, and each person has 18 locks, a new lock is created in New York every 2.777 seconds. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before I came here I locked up the apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the three of them go to the kitchen, Mom chuckles and tucks a lock of hair behind my ear. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So even though it looked like she had two hundred and eight dollars in her lock box, only half of that was money she could honestly call her own. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was a matter of moments, then, for me to bend a wire so that I might motivate the tumblers of the lock and spring it open. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ged said, “Take down the sail,” and Vetch did so quickly, while Ged unlashed the oars and set them in the locks and bent his back to rowing. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I push open the door to my room and lock it behind us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then the entire class heard a large thump, and Mr. Roberts stopped talking, all their eyes now locked on the classroom door. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Erik locked eyes with him for a second, then backed off. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flora Baumbach gasped as Otis Amber unzipped his plastic jacket, pulled a revolver from his shoulder holster, and handed it to the judge, who locked the gun in her desk drawer. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much wealth, if only they could lock it down. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be locked up in a Fjerdan cell.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He would lock the kitchen cabinets so the boys couldn’t get to the food. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Somehow Alex knew that the door at the end of the passage would be locked. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A door locked somewhere inside me that day and I can't find the key. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She locks herself in her bedroom and cries for two hours. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Anne and Ernestine had made up their minds to explain the situation to them, when destiny delivered the psychologist into our hands, lock, stock and moustache. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if she locked him in the room with the children's bodies? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It creates a massive vapor lock, as it were, in mammalian fuel lines: The body is prevented from turning what it eats into a source of usable energy. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was locked fast; and the rain blew in their faces, and in the darkening sky low clouds went hurrying by, and their hearts sank a little, for they had expected more welcome. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Meanwhile, they locked my Jimmy up and threw away the key without a second thought. And he didn’t kill anybody!” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Grace was locked in deep debate about whether a fly was trapped inside her Jell-O cup. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I’d spent the past four years locked away in the padded room of college, reading Keats and Eudora Welty and worrying over term papers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The grate is locked by a steel padlock, its shine a mocking contrast to the muted green coat that covers the rest of the ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The robot’s legs, arms, and head folded inward and locked into new positions, transforming the robot into a starship known as the Marveller. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sealed suitcases in hand, they headed for the air lock. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I counted 2, 3, 5, and then I tried the key in the lock. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me—Milkman,” he answered, and waited for the clicking sounds of three locks being released. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias locks the door and draws the curtains closed, and everyone sits on their cots. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Whatever institutionalized strength was locked in this plural was about to fly apart, or had already done so, but for now it could not be acknowledged, and bravery was demanded of even the youngest. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“No. Not yet. But don’t worry! We’ve got your other friends locked up, you see.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Keerist, close the hall door,” Roy said, going over to it; he slammed it with one blow of his hand, thereupon summarily locking it. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

All the feelings that make me sad, I lock those away, deep down inside, in a safe that I drop into a dark well in my soul. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She looked away before locking eyes with me again. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Eleven, madam, eleven,” I said, with so wide a smile I thought my jaws would lock. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the middle of the night, I was awakened by something choking me, as if two steel claws had locked themselves around my throat. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he gets to our front walk, he hits the lock button on the car, and it sounds a little honk. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“So, did everybody know they would lock us up except me?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But if you cause any trouble, I reserve the right to knock you unconscious and lock you in an abandoned building somewhere.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I wipe my face and run upstairs to unlock the door and lock myself in the bathroom. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then pink tile and his hand on the lock and Just like you're making butter. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

With his fingers still locked around my hand, he turned to the railing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The oaken door had been thrown open, a giant key turned in its rusting lock. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There’s no lock on my door, so I sit on the floor, leaning against it, burning up, inside out, sinking my fingernails into my arms as I imagine Muhammad’s face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Bod put the key in the lock, turned it, and pushed open the storeroom door. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She was in the midst of laughing, her head thrown back and one hand catching a lock of hair that had slipped from her hijab. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

About the way they locked me in the garage like some wild animal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He summoned his daughter, who was giving a geography class in the school, ana locked himself in his office with her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly fumbled with the keys until he got the right one and twisted it, locking Winya inside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I imagine that Mrs. Dudley locked the back door when she left, but what about the others?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Snow falls once, twice, then stays locked over the lawns. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then we looked at all the empty rooms of the apartment, locked the bedroom door, and put a chair underneath that one, too. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So I walk off in the other direction, hoping my enemies still lie locked in the surreal world of tracker jacker venom. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“No, I haven’t seen your pipe. And I adore winter. My favorite part was skating around the ships locked in solid by the ice. The Bensons were there, and the Peales, remember? It was delightful.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push my finger in the lock over and over again, thinking I can somehow get it to open. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I’m me and Sausun’s sister and the thousand women locked in the Harem. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Moss finished locking up his bike and headed straight toward his barber. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, Frankie locked her bike to a street sign. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For the first time since I met him I thought maybe Rondell was better off locked up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Out of spite, she told the officers that he’d stolen a valuable toe ring from her jewelry box, and demanded that he be locked up in juvenile detention to teach him a lesson. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy luggage stood ready strapped and locked in the corridor outside. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Connor and I examined the desk with him—it had a row of drawers going down one side, but those were locked. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It could even happen in his father’s lap in the middle of winter, when the shotgun had been locked away for months. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He ran to the door and locked it and then turned out the light. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His uncle kept all food under lock and key. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The desk clerk locked the front door and left. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Layla came up behind Ivy and ran her hand down Ivy’s head, pulling gently on a lock of frizzy hair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We weren't locked in, but there was nowhere to go, and aside from the weather, each day unfolded very much the same. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She checked for Nin’s old lock picks in the inner pocket of her vest and settled down to wait. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s locked up in the Slammer, a huge bandage covering half his head.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“All those dresses you make locked away in your bedroom. It’s a travesty.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Farid was still trying to get the lock open when they reached the cage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mig sniffed and wiped at her eyes and then bent to look at the pile of chains and locks on the floor. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

His actions were smooth, precise, as if he were dealing cards at the Crow Club or picking an easy lock, but his rage felt hot and mad and unfamiliar. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It will be locked, he thinks, when he reaches the polished dark-wood door, but the silver handle moves easily as he turns it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He fell back again, and I pulled the door shut and locked it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, when they arrived by car, he locked his door. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I pull out my key and am surprised to find he didn’t change the lock. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The wingsmiths,” he repeated, and somewhere within him, as though with a whirr of gears and a ping of sprung locks, a previously unsuspected vault of delight spilled open. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The doors lock and hinges are so big and antiquarian, they must be Louis XIV. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She kisses my cheek and brushes a lock of hair that fell from my bun behind my ear. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Bobby had been locked up for over a month at this point and was becoming desperate. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

You can see the world fine, even if, locked up inside your pressure suit, you really don’t feel you are part of it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With their little front paws locked around each other, they were growling, rolling, and chewing on one another. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured my dad holding me down, calling for help, loading me onto the ferry with my arms locked in a straightjacket. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I hear they lock up the cripples and morons everywhere they go.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She walked into her bedroom and locked the door. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The galley was trashed, all fallen out, but many of the bins of food were still locked in place: rice and flour in sealed containers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

After curfew, everyone locked their doors, turned out the lights, turned down the volume, and reaped tears for Jack and Rose and the passengers of the doomed ship. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Stick leaned over and popped the lock, lifting the sash. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hence those seas became dry land during the Ice Ages, when much ocean water was locked up in glaciers and sea level lay at about 500 feet below its present stand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were a bunch of dusty spiderwebs in front of the little window and someone had pasted old yellow newspapers over the glass so the kids who got locked in here couldn’t peek out. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It looked as if it had been locked forever. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Someone’s footsteps near, so I lock the drawer quick. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They’ll pull the inmate aside when his gallery leaves and talk to him when his friends are far beyond the locked gates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash twisted the window lock and pushed open the diamond-paned glass, leaning out into the morning. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir? Does this mean we’ll be locked out of the ten Dewey decimal rooms until ten o’clock tomorrow morning?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Indeed, her mind felt like a vast storage room whose locked cupboards were all at once not only unlocking but flinging themselves open and dumping their contents on the floor. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And just before the whale sinks beneath the surface its eyes roll from sightless white to shiny black, and I swear it locks its gaze on me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can’t look inside that room. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the first place, the door they opened had no lock, so it could not trap them. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They take my brother back to their headquarters and lock him up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His feet took him to Lucky Press, which was locked, and then across the tiny yard to Comrade Pillai’s house. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s locked it inside and this is how it comes out.” How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They need to give him time to grow. Why lock him up and have him institutionalized and make him worse?” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was still locked, but Leo sensed the mechanisms inside - wires running up the frame, connected to . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mama had stayed up until Master came home and Ugwu was in the kitchen, half asleep, waiting to lock up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

With great effort she was able to get through — she had to use a metal pole she’d found on the ground to lift the lock and lever one of the doors open. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“First thing I did was lock out that function. Don’t worry.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I rushed to my locker, elbowing my way through, and began opening the combination lock with one hand and unbuttoning my shirt with the other. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My hands shake as I put my key into the lock. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mikayla and I locked eyes at the exact same time, and I saw her turn to Janie and say something before I quickly looked away. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When they went back inside, they often forgot to lock the door. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

That’s why Sapiens rule the world, whereas ants eat our leftovers and chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a live creature were being held captive, the hatch would have been locked. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You cannot come in,” Xan told him through the locked door. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“You may be locked away for several years.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t have to stay locked into place, into this mournful, drawn-out, low-grade misery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I peered into the locked case smudged with fingerprints from pilgrims touching the glass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Picking a lock to rob someone’s house was the only way my knees had ever been bent before. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit there, devouring cake, occasionally locking eyes until I look down at the disappearing slice between us. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I wished he hadn’t said that ’cause it stirred my worries up and I’d been doing such a good job of keeping them locked in tight. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

If they left it to the NSA, it would be locked away, out of reach. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I seized on this opportunity to complain about my dolls being locked in the shed, and she said she would see what she could do. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We locked arms and walked between the dark cottages down to the beach. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She toyed with the dial of her combination lock, twisting it this way and that, and decided to be bold again. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hardest thing was to imagine being locked up, day after day, week after week, month after month. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Once the answers are locked in, the readouts are displayed. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I run to the back door, flip the lock on. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

By degrees he lowered the laser beam; he sat gripping it and then he shrugged and returned it to the desk drawer, locking the drawer and restoring the key to his pocket. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Redfern climbs to his feet, fists clenched and jaw locked. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have the troll back under lock and key long before Captain Short is in any danger.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The lock shuddered and the cylinder popped out, hovering in the air, and then the springs and pins came out of the cylinder like they were being pulled apart by invisible hands. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The lid was closed with a hasp and pin, but no lock. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

How did Noah and I ever get so locked up in secrets and lies? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We go through a door without a security sensor to keep it locked. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She learned very early on to disassociate herself, to lock out the emotions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then the group holding me and those locked around Fox hauled us both toward the forest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tendai stayed perfectly still as the woman locked the door of the den and went back to the main part of the house. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His arms loosened, and he looked up at her, a lock of dark hair falling over his brow. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He is standing on the couch cushions with his hands locked behind his back. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’d just finished locking the door when I turned around to discover Ocean standing in front of my house. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her howls echoed through the silent town, ending suddenly when the Tower’s great wooden doors slammed shut, locking her inside. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Quick as he can, Scoob shuts the hidden compartment, locks it, conceals the keyhole, and runs from his room. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

It’s a prison, keeping the better, thinner version of me locked away. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Down the halls they raced, but Yoyo was quicker than he and made it into her room just in time to lock the door as her father threw his weight against it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

On Good Friday, April 12, 1963, Dr. King himself was arrested and locked up in a Birmingham jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We lock up six times as many citizens per capita as England, for example, and seventeen times as many as Japan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lock sprang open with a muffled little click, and the door was pushed just far enough open for someone to squeeze through it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was the first bath he’d had since being locked up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I walk out the front door and listen to it lock behind me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I get the door shut and locked, and Hirsch starts running from one end of the room to the other. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My hands are freezing as I lock the front door. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I lock the door and stuff the key into my pocket and let Thomas guide us through the darkness to the stairs. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then I did some research on the Internet about the locks of New York, and I found out a lot of useful information. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He thinks this door is locked,” Harry whispered. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

So I pretend to lock my lips and toss the key. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“She’s the girl you met in the woods? The fairy princess who had been locked away?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But on those days, we stayed inside with the lights off and the doors locked. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ruby points to her freckled face with one hand and holds up a lock of hair with the other. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I briefly considered searching for a key—it had to be here somewhere—but I could’ve wasted hours looking, and the lock was so decayed that I wondered if the key would even work anymore. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He left the baby on the doorstep of a home on the other bank and returned to his waiting wife, and the prison doors clanged shut, locking them in once more. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. O’Leary and Daedalus were still locked in combat with the giants, and I could hear shouting in the tunnel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We locked eyes, Buddy Ray and me, and when I saw them, when I really took a good hard look into his eyes, my heart crumbled to dust. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Only by locking her foot around a leg of the bench did Shirley manage to stay perched. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

And as his surprisingly gray eyes lock onto my face, his wiry salt-and-pepper eyebrows shoot up toward the shiny spot at the center of his head where all the hair is gone. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He was two years older than the other kids in his grade from repeating a grade and losing time locked up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t look over, but I knew she had me locked in her sights. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He slung his bag to his front side and pulled out his own lock, and Javier grabbed Moss’s bike and leaned it up against his. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I tried to roll up my window, but he’d put on the child lock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He immediately reported this to Pim, who went to the private office, tuned the radio to a German station and locked the door. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I hate this stupid lock,” she mutters, giving it a savage yank. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I slink out of our trailer, making sure the lock clicks as quietly as possible. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The boy wanted to follow the man into the schoolhouse and see what it was like inside, but by the time he got to the steps the man was back again, locking the door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were always locked at four in the afternoon in winter, at eight at night in summer. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They stood nearly eight feet high, locked together with a set of cables that crisscrossed from one machine to the other, making it impossible to move between them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The argument went on and on, and they became locked in a confused rhetorical exchange that left them exhausted, each accusing the other of being more stubborn than a mule. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath it there is a single lock of raven hair glued onto the page and surrounded by symbols and letters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The lock clicks, and the door opens so fast I nearly fall through, stumbling into the kitchen. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Your dad never came home last night. He’s been locked up.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah happened to be facing the door when she entered and, without meaning to, locked eyes with her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put a new lock on her door. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The custodian takes a large metal clipper from his tool belt and prepares to cut the lock. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Tía Mari was out doing grocery shopping at Wimpy’s, and she must have thought she locked up her bedroom door as usual, but she hadn’t. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Just a house full of locks to pick, safes to crack, pigeons to dupe. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

While fighting with the stubborn lock, I heard hinges creak behind me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One was the splash of something heavy falling into the water; the other was a noise like the snick of a lock when a door quietly closes fast. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he went home in the evenings, the caretaker locked the more valuable items, such as used clothing, car parts, and broken lamps, in a makeshift shed. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mateo and I float back to the top with our hands still locked, lifeguards flanking us. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Alone, with the door locked and the chain on, I experimented with myself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The lock Deputy Collins had broken was fixed, so Doc had to be around somewhere. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was the only room that was always locked—Alex had only been in there three or four times, and never on his own. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I locked Charley in Rocinante’s house after giving the attendant a tour of the premises, a drink of whisky, and a dollar. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And only upon closer scrutiny does he notice that they are accompanied by locks of hair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Better to lock the bedroom door and pretend not to hear, or say, as she sometimes did, “I can’t. I don’t know. Please.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Marcus would look up from the lock instead of fiddling with his huge ring of keys, he’d see everything that happened between Bo and me because in this moment it is so obvious. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But as the weeks dragged on and the winter locked up the ocean around Elephant Island, they knew they were stuck until spring. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Radar dug out a Phillips-head screwdriver from the mess of a toolbox and knelt down, unscrewing the locking doorknob. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It would show him, all right, if I locked the window behind him. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was also a locked equipment room in front of which sat my desk, on an elevated platform, with a microphone on top. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I finished moving Mom’s breakables into her bedroom and locking the door, I checked on the snack and alcohol situation. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

By the time they raised sail she had locked herself in her cabin with her dog and her pig, but at night they could hear her weeping. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their eyes locked in recognition; in an instant, the doctor knew the identity of the man who was lying in front of him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your father better get good locks on the door." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Colonel Hawkins had been in the habit of keeping them locked in the chest in the library, but he had become sloppy and overworked since the rebel victories. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He polished a bottle or two, locked the door, and went to bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When there was no answer we opened it ourselves, as there was no lock to fasten it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Thor found Loki’s door locked, so he pushed through it, leaving it in pieces. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She even locked eyes with me for a second, and I didn’t even know Andre. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But I don’t dare move — afraid they’ll lock us all out — until Prim appears, her cheeks flushed with running, hauling Buttercup. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At last she heard the click of the lock on the bathroom door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He looks in through the broken windows, struggles with the lock on the back door, and finally flings it open. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He shuts the hall door, locks it, puts the key in his pocket and I think, Aren’t Englishmen very peculiar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Chucha is locking up the garage and hosing down the driveway, which seems a strange thing to be doing in the middle of the night. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He stood in front of his locker, fumbling with the lock. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until this moment, no one had paid attention to William Petersen’s neat brick row house next door to the home that had been locked tight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I found the kitchen again, went out, locked the door behind me, and hid the key in its so-secret spot that no one would ever think to look in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My remembery called up the feel of being locked in the stocks, of my face being burnt, of him watching me from across the courtyard; him watching out for me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own stomach didn’t want to be part of me anymore—an alien tired of being locked up in my rib cage. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was amazed, once again, at his ability to draw emotion from people who otherwise kept it locked away. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bolted into a room and locked the door. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes searched for Dimple's in the crowd, and when they locked gazes, he grinned, big and happy. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And with that, Daddy huffs and walks to his bedroom, slams the door, and chains up the locks on the other side. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Books and books and books, right out in plain view, no locks, no boxes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slowly straighten my legs and, with my knees locked, I can manage her. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Right. Everyone, lock and load. V flight pattern. Establish a perimeter inside the Manor grounds.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

After their wedding, Lord Ramsay had locked her away in a tower and starved her to death. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had to get inside the treasury, but he’d need some kind of cover while he picked that inscrutable lock, and there were drüskelle everywhere. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, he was one of the last people to leave the building before the doors were locked. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Luke dripped oil into the lock before trying to open the door. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

After we picked the lock to my mom’s office closet, my sister would open her gifts and mine too, but not before I left the room. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A complication arose at ten thirty when a hotel guard told the guests he was locking up; everyone had to leave. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All I was expecting to do was just smash his hand whenever he tried to undo the chain lock. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

My mom shakes her head, her mouth locked in fury. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I turn the lock open as silently as I can and make my way down to the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When they were finished, Mary Todd Lincoln sent a request: Please cut off a lock of his hair for her. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I don’t lock it up, someone’ll take it quickly—it’s a good bike, a Raleigh—and there won’t be any evidence that I was ever even there. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The bolts slid open easily enough, but the old-style lock was another matter. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The next officer could lock him in his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would soon be all alone with nothing but the windowless walls and a locked door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bridge spun her lock and jerked the door open. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

If anyone’s still out, I write down his cell number, and”— Smith made a key-turning motion with his hand—“I lock ’em in.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m ready to lock up and get out of here. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since, she’s ranted about thieves, double- and triple-checking to make sure our doors are locked, worrying that someone will steal the truck, clutching her purse against her chest in crowded markets. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got back to Megan's house, Jessie tucked the receipt in her lock box, right next to her comment card. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

As if it wasn’t bad enough to be locked up in a tumbledown house far away from ordinary life, surrounded by black-clad men with faces like birds of prey and knives in their belts. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His brother William tiptoed to the front door and, as quietly as he could, inserted the key into the lock. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, though, I heard footsteps and the sound of the lock being turned from the inside. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two locks clicked, a dead bolt slid, and the older Ms. Lee opened the door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The bedroom into which Ammu would first be locked and then lock herself. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few would openly argue that we should lock up millions of poor people just so that other people can have jobs or get a good return on their private investments. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. A bench, maybe. The door. My lock. My locker. A wall. I don’t know!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Yet as her legs locked around his waist, his manhood left him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Many weeks later, the judge had collected a room full of golden eggs—the door to the room was locked with a special key only he carried. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The floral night breeze blew a lock of Lydia’s disarrayed hair against Dill’s lips. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed wrong that he might be locked up for life. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Ever since your mother locked me into that miserable lamp.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The first had to do with the grown-up feeling I got by unlocking and locking the door. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They turned and locked eyes, understanding the weight of what had happened, taking in that Minerva had moved the ladder sometime in the night, before the Recruiters woke us. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I figured we were all at risk of getting locked up. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was my great aunt, the one who usually locks herself in the bathroom. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Although I was only five, I knew it shouldn't be locked now, as some people would come in late, even after the sermon started. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I know you locked it. The locks are no good.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when we get there the door is locked. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He locked his gaze on his two humans, surprised to notice that they were nearly the same height now. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For some reason, she was hurrying around the room checking the window locks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor has locked him in an isolation room. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Jam stared at the locked layers of Pet’s face and remembered how it looked that night, with its mighty wings outspread, terrible justice come to Lucille. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"If it was the Stingers that came for T, it'd be over. We'd find them and take them out, if they weren't already locked up." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Fina and I lock eyes when Mom talks about his “dreamy accent” and nearly burst out laughing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Do you think he’s locked up somewhere? How do I rescue him?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Behind the dais a kraken and grey leviathan were locked in battle beneath the painted waves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The boy locked his eyes on me and said something I didn’t hear. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But we found a half-dozen people and security records that proved that Mr. Hinton was locked inside a secure supermarket warehouse working as a night laborer fifteen miles away at the time of the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When I went back to the bedroom and began to dress I heard a soft footstep come and pause outside the door, and the key turn quietly in the lock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Of being locked into a physically impregnable cocoon. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they locked him up, Kaz could escape any cell, any pair of shackles. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I kept the knowledge locked within myself, taking it out from time to time to admire in secret. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swiped it in the digital lock on the Gazette/yearbook office door. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Then Rosa locks her wheels and does a transfer. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But its effect on the nascent science was profound: it locked a system of thinking into place. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Permian fans thought they had a lock on football and were the only ones in town who knew anything about it, but that wasn’t true. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I thus cleaned myself, Dr. Trefusis hunkered down, his thin shanks tucked beside his neck, and he fiddled with the lock at my ankles until my feet were free. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rose’s grandmother finally managed to unlock their front door after spending five minutes fumbling with the locks. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Silly, I know, to think she’d be locked up in there with him. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I tried the knob, it was locked. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Booth tried to pry the lock from its mountings. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I locked eyes with Paul, and some kind of understanding passed between us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It seems they've locked him in the crypt under the church. What else is in that note? Doesn’t your daughter say who it is she’s to bring out for Capricorn?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He could scarcely bear to be parted from her for an hour, but the madwoman had been locked in the Tower for years. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The metal of key and lock jingled; then the door to the cell swung wide open. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“You won’t ever have to do that again,” she said, locking eyes with him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In an emergency, I was supposed to step outside the block into the corridor and lock the door from there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I raced up the stairs two at a time, praying that there would be a door above, a solid one that I could lock tight and hunker down behind. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Something. They do not speak on it. They locked him in the Crockery until he got most of his marbles back.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The lock sticks a little, but I open it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I turned the key in the engine, Andy was clawing at the lock, while the other boys popped off the windshield wipers, and tried to get into the passenger’s side. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They've locked on to us. Their trajectory is converging. Go to the left," he says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shawn had meant it to humiliate me, to lock me in time, into an old idea of myself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Helena waves back and locks the door behind us without a sound. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

‘Shut and lock that door. He’s not so sunk in poverty and vice but to have a glimmer of conscience.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run into it before anyone sees me, shooting into a stall and locking it behind me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Calder could hear the sharp click of a door opening, and the thunk of a lock sliding into place from inside. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Important how? She says you’ll lose your job if you stay locked up.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Once I was back inside the van, I slammed and locked the door, then curled into a quivering ball in the corner. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I want to forget everything, lock the door and hide the key where no one could find it . The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before I could stop her, she ran to the door and stuck the key in the lock. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But it was getting harder and harder to pretend, to keep this part of herself locked away from her mama. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A beige case with a lock and handle and a thick, dark stripe down the middle. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I biked to school alone and was locking up my bike just as Mikayla got out of her car. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Some storekeepers locked their doors against them but most of them had something for the children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a matter of a perceptible activity behind the locked bathroom door. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, if I’m evil, maybe you should leave me locked up.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She put her hand on the door handle and found it locked. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last key on the chain opened the lock, and Nok swung out of the cell, tumbling onto the ground at Pong's feet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His eyes are locked on mine, daring me to say something, to stop him. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He still didn’t understand what she’d done to get locked up. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The teacher took a set of keys from his desk drawer and calmly locked the classroom door. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I joke from my locked and frozen position inside the box. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

That would make her lock her doors and windows. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kids me about my locking the door, and I kid her about the mess her place is in. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bernard had to shout through the locked door; the Savage would not open. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We slipped inside and he locked the door behind us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We pass by a security box right by the locked gate. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He took out a key, turned it in the lock, and they went in. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they discovered his new leather briefcase, they picked the lock and uncovered the enormous amount of cash he had stored inside. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

"We judge through cultivating scientific objectivity," he said with a voice that had a smile in it, and suddenly I saw the hospital machine, felt as though locked in again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another thing that surprised me was how the coffin wasn’t locked or even nailed shut. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She lost hold of Brooke, and with her left arm hanging lame, locked her right arm and slammed it up under Brooke’s forearms, making Brooke let go of the railing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They really sounded good on the surface, not tired at all, but I was still relieved when they got back inside Eagle and got the door locked. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard her at Mother’s door, then I heard her calling Quentin, like the door was locked, then she went back to Mother’s room and then Mother went and talked to Quentin. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get up from the table, walk to the door, and turn the lock. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Those words had kept him locked up for so long. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Give me a kiss—and lock the doors and windows. Don’t open for anyone, do you hear me?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Donna locks the front door and I follow her through the curtain leading to the stockroom. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He’s looking at me, his eyes locked on mine, and I’m terrified of him, but at the same time I know that his question isn’t unreasonable. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood with his hands locked together on die gold pommel of his longsword. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I ought to lock you up anyhow,” he said to Dad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had never in all her life known the feeling of a locked door. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“In a minute,” I say, “we’re going to be locked in.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lana Lee had gone on a shopping trip, her first one in a long time, locking the cash register loudly and w'arningly before leaving. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know what else to say, so I shrink back upstairs and lock myself in the bathroom. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Basta was probably the only man in Capricorn’s village who locked his front door, but the lock was no great obstacle to Dustfinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

An hour later, she had a new scrap of paper stashed in her lock box and a whole new page of calculations on her desk. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

When the tunnel we’re in narrows to a locked grate, he plucks two pins from my hair and picks the lock in seconds. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The boys got locked in a boxcar so hot that they were soon frantic to escape. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

During school hours, the front door is locked and kids have to be buzzed in. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The twisting of the locks and the clanking of the chains vibrate through every wall of the apartment. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be locking this room up tight and posting a guard.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At last the steps came down to the cellar door, and a key rattled in the lock. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He supposed, of course, his mother had seen him, and when the door swung shut and he realized he was locked in, it surprised him greatly. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He would look at the glowing Antly stained-glass windows and when hefinished looking at them, he would lock the church with an enormous key and make it dark. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brandy and I lock eyes for a second, but she looks away quick. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Once the Rottweilers were secured on leashes, Kalo had hustled them into the camper truck and locked the tailgate. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By nightfall, when the boys Rab had selected began silently to congregate in the office of the Observer, behind locked doors, the rain stopped. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I lock my seat belt, Trey pulls out. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He takes a lock of my hair and spins it around his fingers and then plunges them fully into my hair, and he draws me close, chest to chest. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I thought he must be trying to mend fences, because he asked for the south-side keys—he was actually going to help me lock my guys in, not just stand there and criticize. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, of course, that treasure had disappeared into the cellar of his house and was carefully locked in the heavy safes that Capricorn had fitted there. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I look over my shoulder, I see Tess standing in the alley with her wide eyes locked on my vanishing figure. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Homes jimmies the lock, and I order the others inside. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

By the judge's directions, the various drugs were placed in this and it was locked. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Trembling, she reached over to the door and locked it. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I locked myself in the stall and thought I was going to pass out from the sadness. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the showers were in a row, locker-room style, but I found one full bathroom with a door that locked. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The guard said nothing but lifted her so she sat against the wall and locked a long leg chain around her ankle. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But then he lowered his phone and his eyes locked with mine. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He took one of the tiny keys off his waistcoat chain, opened the locked drawer to his desk, and pulled out some sheets of thick, cream-colored writing paper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Ekon held his brother’s gaze and locked on to that something, pleading. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This dream family lived far away from the saloon; so far that he had to hop a trolley to get home in the early morning after he locked up the saloon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Char’s the kind of friend that will get you locked up or shot up,” he says, walking away. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

On his fifth swing the lock shattered, and the chains fell away in a rattling clatter so loud Quentyn was certain half the pyramid must have heard them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Before they could regain their feet, I had picked the locks on the ankle cuffs, snapped them onto the men’s wrists, and bounded down the stairs. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t manage to lock a Death Eater up in one of the old high-security vaults, I suppose?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they got more than just a feel before I could fend them off and lock myself in the bathroom. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was the only building on the block that wasn’t locked up with boarded-over windows. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In her mind she can hear her father polishing locks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The metal bar came down across our laps and locked with a loud clank—although there was still a considerable amount of space between our bodies and the bar. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He shook it, fumbled with the lock, which appeared to be stuck. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was here with the doors locked and the front windows shuttered that the ACC merged with the group Manolo and Minerva had started over a year ago. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned it into a robot dance, arms and legs popping and locking, her expression wide-eyed and smiling. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Go ahead and lock me up or throw me into a home." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My mom locked herself in her office for an hour. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A fourth door, and a fifth, on and on until you reach a thirteenth, a little locked door no bigger than a shoe. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The legal rule is in place so the police and government can't abuse their power and lock someone up for no reason. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I lock my eyes on the border to track activity. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She could not leave his presence when he was there, nor remove her eyes from his face, which was something like Napoleon’s, with a lock of black hair failing across the forehead. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

It was on the opposite site from the loose plank and was apparently locked with a latch and padlock from the outside. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I knew was I was forty years old and I didn’t mean to be here when I was forty, locked with this genius shrink wife and this balloon son. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I check the French doors to the garden three times, but they’re locked. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lock clicked and the door swung open — they piled through it, shut it quickly, and pressed their ears against it, listening. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Carlos locks the door, and I lead the two dogs to the elevator, using only one hand to hold the leashes, and so far, it’s not so bad. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

By the time I turn off the lights in Ms. Steck’s room, we’ve managed to nudge him into the hall and lock up. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“She locked both doors, so the boys had to break into a ground-floor window so they could get upstairs. That’s what took so long.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

By the time they had tightened, pinned, and locked me into my clothes, I could feel my stomach rubbing against my backbone. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When news spread that Carrie Nation had arrived in a community, saloon owners locked up their establishments until they were certain the one-woman wrecking ball had left town. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Except that the mirror over the sink has been taken out and replaced by an oblong of tin, and the door has no lock, and there are no razors, of course. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though they were locked in, soldiers were posted within arrow range. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The taped glasses had fallen from his blue eyes that were locked in an unseeing stare. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She locked the door behind them, tucked a chair under the knob. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He crashed into the woman and the two were suddenly locked in an embrace. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The leaves locked together more tightly overhead, and the sun could not get through. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She must have kept it locked in the attic —the one room Frank was forbidden to explore. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dying sucks, I bet, but getting locked up in prison while life keeps going on without you has gotta be worse. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The world, locked out for years, suddenly flooded in, and now Estha couldn’t hear himself for the noise. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she had gone inside the vestibule and locked the door. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

So she told the boys and told them again: when you come home from school, go into the apartment, lock the door, and stay inside. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

What was so important in that closet that it required a lock? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Friday was also boring, except that it was Friday, which meant it was almost Saturday, which meant I was that much closer to the lock, which was happiness. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll put my den in that room, and I’ll put a good strong door that we can lock between that and the hallway leading to the bedrooms. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone has put me in a hot oven and locked the door. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And lest we forget what the job was about, Sergeant Bloom told us, “The easiest way to mess up is to leave a lock open.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lock in the door begins to turn. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I use the term racial caste in this book the way it is used in common parlance to denote a stigmatized racial group locked into an inferior position by law and custom. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The door accidentally locked behind him, and we couldn’t get out. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the exact moment when she felt like a woman, she locked herself in her old room, which still held the mural she had started so many years before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She locked the gate door after them and went inside the house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He would like to lock up Rosa and the doctor. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not quite sure whether they had locked the door; and when I dared move, I got up and went to see. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I try to struggle free, but Dalton pushes me hard against the wall and locks eyes with me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Did she really think such an ordinary lock was any obstacle? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Men locked into giant wheels with their arms and legs spread out were being wheeled past down the hall. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And shoot the bolt across,” said Grandma, who never locked her doors. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the locks was out of place and had fallen down on the side of his forehead a little. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie had straightened up and locked his hands on top of his head. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Madame Duboise’s pale green face and flowing rose petal locks suddenly appear on the blank page. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I’m like an animal who’s been locked out of his nice, safe cage.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He uses his body more to move, to talk, so everything isn’t locked up inside the way it is with me. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He explained the complexity of the shifting lock, and the problem-solving required each time the lock was to be opened. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

There, she inserted the key into the lock. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were no lights in the air lock; it was dim, almost dark. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph put the lid back on the box, returned it to the cabinet, and locked the little door. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Me? I don’t have any magics will get you out of a locked room, boy.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I try to decide between a charm for my bracelet or a diary with a little lock and key like Lucinda got last Christmas. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

During the day, only the grille was locked; at night, the wooden door was locked as well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked back at her, the pain was tamped down into something hammered and hard, locked behind his eyes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In a minute our faces would be level and I’d have to choose between locking lips or seriously offending her by pulling away, and I’d already offended her once. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And in a minute, they heard a thump and click— the door closing, the lock turning—and footsteps once again, this time quick. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each of them was awarded a small sterling silver pin that was a replica of a cell door with a heart-shaped lock. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She stayed in the bathroom as long as she could, but the door had no lock, and she watched as he turned the knob from the outside. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The locks on her suitcase opened with two satisfying clicks; she enjoyed again how neatly her belongings fitted together, clean against the green lining. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You always used to think that was funny, how everyone in our town stuck their lawn chairs out way before parade day and how they didn’t strap them down or lock them up, either. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was locked in my own cell, away from the others. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her thank-you in his soft voice, and explained that he was locked out of the house. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

So when we come off lock- down I called his mother and she was crying on the phone. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muttering with rage, Mama Bellini picked him up by his antennae, tossed him into the cricket cage, and locked the gate behind him. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

One guy was locked in the Slammer for forty-two days. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I want the outer door locked in the fully open position with the mechanical stopper in place to keep it from being trashed by the decompress." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A father and son, both red haired, are locking white shutters over their windows. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s never been locked before; we go in and out of it all day—for napkins, jelly containers, Styrofoam cups for takeout. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘There are locked doors and closed windows in your mind, and dark rooms behind them,’ said Faramir. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He must have become that way while he was locked up with the other prisoners of war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Quickly he closed the doors and snapped the lock through the hasp. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Northwest of downtown, in the old Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard, tugboats belching plumes of black smoke nosed long rafts of logs into the locks that would raise them to the level of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A sound startles me—the scraping of the lock on the brig door. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The gardening shed looked to be the likely place for a pot, but it was locked. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The lock on the front door clicks, and it creaks open. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You can't have a lock. If you want to keep your stuff safe, find a better hiding place. Or better yet, go talk to Max and you can clear up this entire misunderstanding.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t say anything as he throws some books in, slams the door closed, and locks it. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His uncle was at the back wall, fiddling with the combination lock on a large steel door. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Panicked, I picked up the letter opener handle and pounded at the lock, again and again, until finally, the trunk popped open. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I locked my arms around his horns to keep from being thrown. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He stuck a broccoli spear in his mouth and chewed on it, his eyes locked with his mama’s. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The prince's fingers locked on Jemmy's arm like a manacle. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally there was a distant, muffled thump—the rear door of the theatre being closed and locked. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had locked himself in the bathroom after that movie until Celia came home. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was dawn and the gate was locked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the new security, every single door to the school is locked. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

At least he had not locked them in. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His arms were still locked across his chest and he was shifting from foot to foot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We’d locked our door and snuck out our bedroom window with the memorabilia bags. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A lock of her hair is out of place and falls into her eyes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

District 13 strictly forbids any production or consumption of intoxicating beverages, and even the rubbing alcohol in the hospital is kept under lock and key. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But the narrow bed had clean sheets, and there was a trunk with a lock where I could keep my meager possessions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When she goes into the stall, I grab the phone and slide the home screen open before it locks. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I said, “Yo, Ma, this isn’t so bad, right? I thought those people would lock me up and throw away the key.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“If my mom smells me reeking of booze, she’ll lock me up in my room until the dystopian future arrives. That is, if we aren’t living in one now.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I backed away, tugging on a lock of hair. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He tried to pull it open, but it was locked. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I go to my bathroom and lock the door behind me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Reyna locked eyes with Percy and gave him a huge smile. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I cozy a little closer, run my fingers through those locks. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That started a decon cycle running in the air lock that would eliminate any hot agents that might have leaked into the air lock as they were going through. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate of the fence was locked like a jail yard, but Mrs. Bedlow wasn’t deterred. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to open it, but it was locked. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After bending over and locking the metal door, he hoisted the carrier to his side like a briefcase. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But staying strong would keep me locked up. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“No. It's my house, and nobody is locking me out of the rooms I pay for.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Fezzik said, working with the key, forcing the great lock to close. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had locked myself in the bathroom, and run a tub full of warm water, and taken out a Gillette blade. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The doors of the Slammer are kept locked, the air is kept under negative pressure, and your telephone calls are monitored—because people have emotional breakdowns in the Slammer and try to escape. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinner than a flathead screwdriver, it’s perfect for prying open a domed cover to a lock. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After we’ve locked the lobby doors and have closed the register, I head to the kitchen to gather up some trash. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t see any way to open it—there were no hinges or locks or anything. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her hair wasn’t lovely black locks, but coils of fire. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t notice Frank, but he locked eyes with Hazel and seemed to read her whole life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

For a moment I wondered what my father would have thought if he could see me there, locked in the Mermaids’ head on the Coral Queen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

One way of understanding our current system of mass incarceration is to think of it as a birdcage with a locked door. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jasper Jr.’s forearm was locked tight against my throat, and it hurt to breathe. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The seat belt snapped into a locked position when she slammed on the brakes, knocking the air out of my chest. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The door was locked, naturally, but it may as well not have been for all the challenge it presented to a kleptomaniac dwarf. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes! I’m going to lock up all my Twix bars so someone doesn’t take them.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She rotated the locks and pulled the door open. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When a stiff wind disarranges his lacquered locks, he looks panic-stricken, like a man who’s just seen his own ghost. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it got dark, I climbed out of the van, locked it, and hurled the keys off into the junk pile. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Only Al Ulbrickson remained motionless and silent, still riveted to his seat, his eyes cold gray stones locked on the white blades out in the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For the very first thing Uncle Andrew did was to walk across to the door of the room, shut it, and turn the key in the lock. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dreams and imaginary dramas were projected on the ceiling as Ben’s brain danced with dazzled portraits of his father and him locked in duels to the death. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked back to the house and he installed the lock, humming to himself and smiling, flashing his baby teeth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He shut the door and locked it again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not going through this so I can lock myself in the one of them box. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You oughta he locked up, you big fruit. You know that?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Riptide and slashed the lock off the zebra’s cage. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The pale-faced man bent low and took the lock from Father MacPhail’s fingers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Refusal to “lock in” was considered a petty offense. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Etienne sits with Marie-Laure and reads to her in his feathery voice; the next he suffers from what he calls a headache and sequesters himself inside his study behind a locked door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I try scissors and hairpins and knitting needles, but nothing will budge the lock. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

B-block’s plumbing was unbelievably dismal, I thought as I locked an inmate into the second shower. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy’s eyes locked on to the sliding wooden partition that separated this teller from the others. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“And then we spend the night, you and I, in the churchyard where Lucy lies. This is the key that lock the tomb. I had it from the coffin-man to give to Arthur.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I lock my fingers tightly into his and say, “Watch my feet. Just try to step where I step.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The words just came to me, clicked together like so many keys to locks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed a swamp, and I locked the door. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fast as I could, I shoved the key into the lock and turned it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pet growled and turned its face toward the outside entrance as the lock clicked and the door whirred open. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The morning was spent wandering across the steep hillside with our heads down, my gaze locked on a point about six steps in front of me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I picture the lock of hair dancing in the current until it reaches the Bay of Bengal. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our escort—who had not set foot into the room—shut the door and once again I heard the sound of a lock clicking. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first thing I noticed,” remembered Edward Teller, “was that we were all going to be locked up together for better or for worse.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I soar through the air to where Franco and Asher are locked in a death grip. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t wear his heart on his sleeve; he keeps it in a locked box with all of his dreams and expressions because he doesn't want to share them with the rest of the world. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After a moment’s hesitation, Chronicler moved to the door of his room and locked it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Some people would lock us up in a cobwebby basement for hollering.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I locked eyes with a kid I didn’t know, but felt like I did. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The twelve sentry rats were locked in the hut they had been set to guard. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Whether or not those networks were locked didn’t matter. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The door closes and my eyes lock on the floor indicator. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She hands Max the key, and he fumbles with the lock, then opens the door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That ole lady turn almost gray in the face, but she kept her shoulders straight and her eyes locked onto mine. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My companion followed me quickly, and cautiously drew the door to, after carefully ascertaining that the lock was a falling, and not a spring, one. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He took something out, shut and locked the suitcase. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m no killer,” he says again, turns the lock, and darts out the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A lock of hair blew upon his forehead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Finally they grew bored and left him alone, locked in the dining room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon in early spring, the light was beginning to fade, and people on McDowell Street were locking up their shops and heading home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, with recreation having been called, most inmates off the gallery, and things settled down, I went to find my disobedient porter and lock him into his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I’d moved all the bottles that were left. I put ’em under lock and key, like you said. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She locked her pinkie with his, and they shook. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were no bars on the windows, no jangling keys, no doors to lock or unlock. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” I said, and made a mental note to lock my door when I went to bed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He waited in the car, not appearing to watch as I shut the door behind me without bothering to lock the deadbolt. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In that sense the secret is locked forever in the vast recesses of Burr’s famously enigmatic mind at that most pregnant moment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The door opposite mine I tried, but found it locked. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They are not locked into their usual the-world-is-beneath-me sneer, but hang on his face like melting cheese, creating the illusion that he is an actual human being and a sad one, at that. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were standing in a windowless, lightless, cinder- block corridor that had doors at either end: this was the makeshift air lock, the gray zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked around back of him and locked my fingers in front of his chest and held on to him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A brand-new man, I agree, running my fingers through the straight reddish-brown locks. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the gun again, locking his wrists, then unlocking them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After lunch, she removed her diamond engagement ring and her wedding band and locked them in her desk drawer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One moment he is telling me my head is full of squashed flies and the next moment his heart is melting for me because Mrs Clonkers locks us in the cellar. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than merely shunting black people to the other side of town or corralling them in ghettos, mass incarceration locks them in cages. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The doors of the Apprentices’ Quarters were locked and sealed at nightfall, and there were no exceptions to the rule. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Fred had a lot of time to think, locked up in his cell at the New York City Animal Control Center. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I locked myself in a stall, threw up, and curled into a ball on the tile and squeezed my eyes shut. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The tipple area was locked at night, but just inside the tree line on the mountain, there was a deep drainage ditch that went underneath the fence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the brand-new brass lock, nothing in Daffodil Manor changed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“They’d be locked in the safe. Now let’s not spoil the day with anger.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s on his hands and knees and she drags him to the coal hole under the stairs and locks him in. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Ten minutes,” said the guard, poking his head around the jamb before he shut and locked the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, most of them bolted their locks, drew their shutters, and pretended to be out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The closed corridor would be the air lock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will be Jewish, of course, and so, locked out of the old-line downtown law firms on account of his “antecedents.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I unhooked the lock, flung the door open, quickly grabbed my gym clothes, and discovered my tennis shoes were missing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Kind of hard now anyway, since the only snake handling pastor around got locked up.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Did I do that? I don’t recall doing that. Are you sure they don’t automatically lock?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

An entire phalanx of dracamae marched in the lead, their shields locked together, spear tips bristling over the top. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hugo had seen men and women locked up in there, and a few times he had even seen boys no older than himself in the cell, their eyes red from crying. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He extinguishes the office lamps and locks the door behind him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Only masters and brothers of the temple are allowed to grow locks.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

That gave me heavy boots, because it reminded me of the lock that I still hadn’t found, and how until I found it, I didn’t love Dad enough. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the lock and jumped back in time to avoid the door slamming into me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She reads each signature over and over, checking how securely each lock of hair is pasted, scrutinizing each symbol. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I was locked in my room,” I tell her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Half of me wants to spit out Fuchsia’s name, but the rest of me knows enough to keep it locked up tight. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

That’s why I finally put airplane glue in the keyhole of the lock so nobody could use the telephone, key or no key. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The deceased’s left foot had locked itself behind the right, and Horace now exerted himself to free it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harry, his face still blank, his eyes still locked on Conor’s, stepped up close to him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I make sure the doors are locked and close my eyes, and they are behind my eyelids, too. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tuck climbed in, too, pushing off, and, settling the oars into their locks, dipped them into the silty bottom in one strong pull. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom keeps all her important stuff locked in a filing cabinet: her passport, my birth certificate, her engagement ring from Dad, which she lets me try on. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The smugglers locked them in from the outside, so the boxcar would not look suspicious. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure turns the key in the lock and pockets it and finds her cane as she retreats into the low space of the kennel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Babu unlocked, opened, entered, closed and locked a cage next to the tiger’s cage. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A small locked door at the back of the main-floor gallery. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That, or he was going to force me onto the cot himself and hold me there until the machine came down and locked over me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Dad drove fast and sang really loud, and locks of his hair fell into his face and life was a little bit scary but still a lot of fun. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t I tell you about locking the barn door to keep out animals? Never figured I’d have to lock out the likes of this here. ’ Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was chain- locked according to the testimony. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl blew a lock of mahogany hair from her face and sighed. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“But I’m not sorry for what I did, Noah. The only thing I’m sorry about is that you’ve got to see me locked up like an ax murderer.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He took a closer look at the dog named Duke, who didn’t seem too happy to be locked up in a crate, sharing a cozy motel room with Dozer and Petunia. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She locked the door and returned to the living room. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Belief could be sustained only if a peculiar authority was granted to obscure books, or better still ancient manuscripts newly discovered in locked chests. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The kids surrounded it, eager to see the contents that had been locked away for the past eleven months. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“And you locked the door behind you because...?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as I leave the bathroom Zack rushes in and locks the door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“What? Nah,” I said with a flick of my wrist while still keeping my arms locked firmly around my torso. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My fingers shake as I try to maneuver the key into the closet lock. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I bang on the door, and Max flings it open, pulls me inside, and turns the lock. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t think we are very good at dealing with the fact of that locked door. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

My baseball was back at the Festival Theater, in the locked men’s dressing room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The woman left the room, locking the door behind her. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It took him a while to find the lock box. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

We sold the zoo, lock, stock and barrel. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He held her fiercely all night, as if together their sweat and the heat of their breathing could lock out the moaning voices of the dark whirling winds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re trying to accuse me of gluing the telephone lock. They don’t trust me around here.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But we all have secrets, hopes that stay locked deep inside, trapped by our fears of the world’s judgment. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The trailer stayed where it was, unused, unconnected, and locked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Jay and I huddled together, listening to the banging and the rattling of the lock. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But I forced my hands against my sides, locked my legs together, and descended. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

These locks on my head, I designed it. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

He was slightly disheveled now, a few locks of his hair falling into his face, as if he had been hurrying through the cars looking for her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lily pulled a set of keys from her pocket, turned the lock, and pushed the door open. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I locked myself in my bedroom and thought about it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Until we became familiar enough to belong to the Store and it to us, we were locked up in a Fun House of Things where the attendant had gone home for life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I install a lock on my bedroom door. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each night guards locked the room’s thick steel door. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It had hidden switches that would be used during a police raid to lock all the building’s doors and to lock and hide all cupboards and closets in which liquor was stored. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t get into the car because the door was locked. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They lock eyes; the man’s gaze slides away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The inner door opens, and we step into the little security air lock. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I turn the lock, and Max must have already been out of the bunker, watching from the window, because he comes straight out and kisses my cheek. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s been rough for you, Henry, I know, but you can’t do this. You’re flunking three classes, getting into fights. I hardly see you because you’re always locked in your room.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When I made it home I closed and double locked my door and pulled the curtains. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I’ll let ’em use a ‘lawyer,’ ” Smith explained to me as we walked over there, “but if the lawyer doesn’t change my mind either, sometimes I’ll lock them both up.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood before the locks, trying to look purposeful, until Tendai offered to do the job. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In rugby, locks came in pairs, like training wheels. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His fingers lock around the arms of the chair. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bitter was clutching a brush between her fingers, her joints locked in angles that looked painful, her eyes partially closed and her mouth slightly open. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We lock the door and let everyone down from the attic before they lose their minds. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I lock the door and sit on my bed, my heart hammering. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a little door at the back of it,” she says, “but it’s locked. What’s through there?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t locked out, I was just waiting for Mom. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or to replace the lockers, most of which were too bent out of shape to be locked anymore. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She actually took away his key because he locked himself in the bathroom the second day for over an hour and he should be using Sadhu's from now on. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I really hate the idea of having to testify at the trial and tell what really happened, but everybody says I have to, if I want him locked up for the rest of his life. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy locks the front door and goes back in his office. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“My yob involves locking more cells than just yours.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sign upon the gates of Le Cirque des Rêves tonight is a large one, hung with braided ribbon that wraps around the bars just above the lock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Moss discovered their crime, she locked the boys in their bedroom, which had a sliding glass door that opened into the indoor dining room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I’d lock myself in the bathroom and spend long hours playing with him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a quick glance to see that my door is closed before he locks the car. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

For years my father and I had been locked in conflict, an endless battle of wills. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We lock Helena inside, and I go partway down the stairs, making sure there are no neighbors to see a man coming out of my apartment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I thought you contacted me because you know I’m still the leader of the Allegiant, and you want an ally,” Johanna says, bending her neck so a lock of hair falls over her scarred eye. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I barely noticed Grovers nervous whimpers, or the way the statues’ eyes seemed to follow me, or the fact that Aunty Em had locked the door behind us. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the cabinet and pulled out a small black box with a combination lock on it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I lock the door as instructed and lean against it, panting. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was locked from the inside, electronically, with a glass plate against the wall. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

One night when I was eleven or twelve years old, I locked myself in the bathroom and carefully regarded my reflection in the mirror over the sink. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll stay home, locked away in my room, staring at all my Miss America posters crumpled in the trash can, and telling Vanessa Williams, Listen, girlfriend, I tried! Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They clamped a bike lock around his neck and claimed to have lost the key. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Only when she moves into the room, the door closing automatically and locking with a series of clicks behind her, does Marco notice that beneath her coat her gown is covered with blood. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The coroner, unable to find any marks of violence, theorized that Holmes had locked the girls in the big trunk, then filled it with gas from a lamp valve. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My father ended the interview by saying he intended to stay locked behind bars until the law dealt squarely with Dusty Muleman. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It took her less than a minute to jimmy the lock open. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t any tree pushing through the floor, thankfully, but Grandpop did lock himself inside. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Roza was locked out all night, and she was forced to camp out on the lumpy lounge couches, a poem by Wislawa Szymborska beating in her head: Four a.m., no one feels fine. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She could be in the middle of a house full of people and still feel like she was locked up by herself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what I knew, but I knew I was supposed to be here. You made me feel better too. So much better. I was so locked in.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The chief of the volunteers meanwhile had found the doorknobs and lock of the kitchen door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Same way you can pick locks on marble columns, I guess. I’m glad you’re not into robbing banks.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could be locked up for the rest of his life, but there was a chance he could get out early after serving twenty-five years. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The apartment door hung open, as did the door to our bedroom, both the locks splintered from the wood. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

However, with pictures far more detailed than any view of Mars that Lowell could have glimpsed, we have found not a tributary of the vaunted canal network, not one lock. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put the key in the lock, pushed open the door, and went in. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It was the only one I could get,” said the Wart “The inn was locked.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers locked around her upper arm, and she jumped at the sudden contact. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The door in her mind that she kept locked at all times had been cracked open by the question, and now she tried frantically to close it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Had he been the one who locked me in the room? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“How can a whole continent lock people out?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly closed the door and wound the chain around the handles in a tight knot, securing it with the lock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I tried my combination one more time and, unsuccessful, let the lock drop back against the locker with a loud clang. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He tried the low teak door but it was locked. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There were places you didn’t want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lock of blond hair falls from its knot and touches her cheek; “I love you.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That lock is a pain in the nalgas,” the woman said knowingly. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The fear is so powerful that I can’t do anything but stare straight ahead, gaze locked on the wooden post in front of me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When the carpetbaggers commenced takin’ over, them Stokeses built a rock wall around the fam’ly graveyard and took off for Brazil, lock, stock, and barrel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s not poetry. It’s not metaphor. It’s instructions. We are supposed to go to Margo’s room and unscrew the lock from the door and unscrew the door itself from its jamb.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I mounted to my chamber; locked myself in; fell on my knees; and prayed in my way—a different way to St. John’s, but effective in its own fashion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lazily, he brushed a lock of red hair from his eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And Mrs. Helm, said, “What I hope is, I hope they keep ’em locked up good. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other, who had attacked him, was locked into an empty shower cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could ask one of a hundred questions, the key turned in the lock and the guard appeared. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns away and I drill the lock until the door flies inward. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Emilika is still gone, so Helena will have to be on her own, feeding herself, keeping the doors locked, and staying warm without burning down the apartment building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He looked to his mother, whose arm was locked around Reverend Okonjo’s, her chin up, her face proud. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The tendons in my neck have locked tight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She shut the chest, turned the lock, and hid the key inside her skirts in another secret pocket. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hornig’s boss took him to the attic and locked the door. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jerome Paisley knocked on the door to her suite, waited a moment, the slipped a key card into the lock. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of my eyes locked on the wall of astronauts, Thomas leaned in to me and said, “Your picture will be up there too someday, Miranium.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Even the groan from the cot did not break the lock of the stranger’s stare. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hatch door leading to the food cellar was locked, as usual. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Ten strong fingers locked about his hairy wrist. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew tried the front door, but it was locked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There were no windows in the tiny room in which they had locked Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

We rush back down the hall, but the office door is locked too. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The door closes behind us, and locks, and we’re alone again. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I was there on Friday. Nobody used the machine during my class. The room was clean when we left, and I’m sure I locked the door.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He closed the door behind him as tightly as possible, and with an expression implying that the absence of a key in the lock met with his disapproval. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The key clicked three times, very softly, as the kindly man turned it in a lock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wedged one end through the lock and pulled the other end backward. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I climb up the ladder to the next landing, as stealthy and nimble as Max was when she picked up the nurse's badge and freed us from the locked unit. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I locked out the stars and I never saw lightning again. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I press my hand against the bathroom door, which is little more than a painted piece of plywood, with no lock. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she got out her pocketknife and picked the lock on Ida Nee’s front door. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

She asked me if I had checked the lock. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It seems to be stuck—or locked—and as the squirrel tries harder to open the cupboard, her feet push the metal breadbox closer and closer to the edge of the fridge. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Several months later, they locked horns with their abolition movement colleagues again when Anthony assisted a woman who was being abused by her husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“No keys in the locks,” the chief said uneasily. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though he knew his own parents locked up at night—when they didn't forget—the doors at his house had always been open for him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want us to lock him up?” the police ask. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

So Sir Lancelot was led away to the pigeon house, to be King Pelles’ fool—and there he was locked in, and fed by throwing, and lodged on dean straw. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To get locked up in the first place,” he said. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Daddy might as well lock me in a tower like Rapunzel. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My lads are locked up in the old sugarhouse,” he said, his smile fading. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got there just in time for her to close the door and slam her hand down on the lock. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She must have many memories locked inside her heart. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He could kiss my wrist if he thought I was going to beg him and say things like “I’ll do anything you folks ask me if you don’t lock me up in here all alone.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He thinks about the Rola radio, locked in the closet for safekeeping. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He slapped at a service panel’s lock and tore it away. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted the elbow of the lock from the door’s hasp. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our eyes lock, and I realize how furious I am with Gale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My attempts at keeping the terror from my voice were unsuccessful, but Bob just pumped his hand up and down, kept his lids locked tight. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Dayah stands in the middle of the street, headscarf held to her mouth, eyes locked on us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The drive was in daylight this time, all the way, even though it had taken them a long while to get everything ready and the apartment locked up. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said Moss, and he stuck the key in his bike lock. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Soon there came a thumping on the door as the lion realized that he was locked in. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

From that day forward, I never forgot about how Grandma had to lock us in that pantry to save her job and how awful that had made us feel. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I locked my arms around him, digging my head into his chest. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

On either side there was a low door; both were closed and locked. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s like having a gift that’s locked in a glass box. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was locked inside the gigantic storage room by myself. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

While we wait, Ben motions to a steel door with a flashing blue light, its latch encased within a clear locked box. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They’ve been sending agents to interrogate him—but agents are the reason he’s locked away. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then he took off his sunglasses and locked his bloodshot blue eyes on mine. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sign that read this door is locked. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Claire is locked in her office, talking on the phone with a client. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I found the house locked up tight as you like. Knowing her, she rode out to Ludingtons’ to join us. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what she did at night, with the shades down, with the door locked, in the sealed privacy of her room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yo, you think God could really see the stuff you do down here? Even when you locked up like me and you is?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dylan locked away for his crimes, hopefully for many years to come, whatever connection we share won’t matter for a long time. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The ropes are stupid. We may as well just lock him in. He's a bit too fat to climb out of the bathroom window anyway, don't you think?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” he said, ushering me quickly inside and locking the door behind me again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She combed an unruly lock of hair back into place behind her ear. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was not locked and he opened it with the two sliding thumb releases on either end of the handle edge. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I open their door, slip inside, and lock the door behind me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn’t like being locked away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s about how Isaiah gets locked out of the Beans and Rice Room, where he goes for his superhero meal. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

All of this was in the painting’s foreground, but my eyes had instantly locked on what was in the background: a large white house, with its front door and windows all boarded up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was busy locking little parts of me up, because I would not need them if Father Amadi was not here. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three boys surround me suddenly in the park, locking me between their bodies. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same keypad lock sits on this side of the door too. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I held my breath and locked my eyes tight. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When the door swings shut by itself, it usually doesn’t lock, which drives Mom nuts and is one of the things the landlord won’t fix. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I shoved my hands out in front of me, locked my elbows and shoulders, and slowly toppled over. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The guard inserted the key in the lock and the door swung in. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he got hold of the things, he took them along to the room with the dolls, locking it behind him and removing the key, whenever he left. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I cover the eleven kilometers back to the apartment like I’ve got a train to catch, and when I turn the lock on the front door, it’s silent. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He placed the box with the tortoise in it next to the door and pulled a bunch of lock picks from his pocket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stop seeing my mom’s face, when she had locked me out in the garage. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s built to keep arcanists locked up. All meshed stone. Wards on the doors and windows.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I'm going to be eighteen in a month. I think I should be allowed to have a lock on my door.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her eyes locked on the man’s face in recognition. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A swarm of angry voles.It took Kaz a few quick heartbeats to pick the lock. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s kind of cool and everything, but there’s nothing much to see. The rides aren’t working. Everything cool is locked up. Most of the animals are put into different tanks at night.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Who will save the princess locked in the red castle?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They did as they were bidden; as the lock turned, Ron clicked the Deluminator and the lights whisked back into his pocket, restoring the cellar’s darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t move around, either, because the straps were locked into place. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives his orange corkscrew locks a shake and applies a fresh coat of purple lipstick to his mouth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He brushes damp locks of my hair behind my shoulders, then pushes us to a corner, where his hands grip the edge of the spring on either side of me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead I’m locked in a small room that smells like chorizo and stale popcorn while my archenemy continues to brainwash the community with reggaeton and free sunscreen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I kind of figured that out when you threatened to lock me in the trunk,” Maya scoffed. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“We don’t lock the doors, so just come on in.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was staring at her intently, his brown eyes wide, his eyebrows locked, his lips smooshed together. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nathan lay inside the front of the truck and Uncle Jet locked the doors. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Henry and I lock eyes, and he winks at me again. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

After the rush was over, Papa went out to buy a new lock. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy and I lock eyes, and when he smiles, blood rushes to my cheeks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the tough guy, Dozer, had been placed in a different section of the shelter where they locked up the dogs who snapped at the handlers or bit the bars of their cages. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He began handcuffing Henry, pulling his hands together behind his back and locking them there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Keep your elbows bent just a little, but lock your wrists,” Crab was saying. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sefia took out her key—her father always locked the house—but the heavy wooden door on its well-oiled hinges swung silently open at her touch. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her rich copper eyes are locked on me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Going to an island had seemed like a good idea after being locked up for three months. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I heard the bitter tone in my voice, and it came to me how I could lock that tone into my voice forever. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate this thing,” I said, yanking at the lock. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

"I've...uh...noticed that the nurses and docs use a badge to swipe in and out of the locked door," I say, testing the waters. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were going to spend another long, boring day locked up in the house. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I lock my seat belt in place, and Mommy holds my overstuffed backpack toward me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“If you call fighting Typhon okay? She locked eyes with me. “ The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Three steps from Helmuth, and at that moment, that precise moment, their eyes lock. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Arms outstretched, they meet and lock in an embrace. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her head twisted around, her eyes locking on mine, their expression still strangely blank. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The real point here, however, is not that innocent people are locked up. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Late at night when we walked home from the laundry, they should have been sleeping behind locked doors, not overflowing into the streets in front of the benevolent associations, all alit. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That had been a day ago, but I remembered seeing her dark eyes burning bright with hate at the back of the van they had locked us in. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s just like if I put a pit bull in this cabinet and kept him locked away from what he wants. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hopped in and locked all the doors. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no reason for it to be locked with him in it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Inevitably each time we manage to unlock a box, we find that there is another locked box inside. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had half a second to get the hell out, and I took it, twisting the handle of the door so hard that the lock popped itself out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Kyle figured being locked in a library with computers on Friday night would be better than being stuck at home without any gaming gear at all. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I tried opening the door; it was locked from the inside. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he understood, and said, “Don’t worry, honey. Just lock the doors and turn on the porch light.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like we’re going to lock the door and get wild in here with them outside. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A little light leaked in through the locked door’s air vents whenever they passed underneath a streetlight. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I hold my breath until I hear the door lock again. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

So Santa Sofía de la Piedad locked the door again and he put on his shirt and his shoes and sat down on the cot to wait for them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Zero and infinity are eternally locked in a struggle to engulf all the numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a huge key ring, found the one he was looking for, and stuck it in the back of my lock. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I need fresh air. It’s not fair to lock your child up.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how it locked and unlocked doors, it just did. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Albert locked the pipe between his teeth, took the candle, and walked to the door. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I tried the key in the lock, but it didn’t work, so I rang the buzzer, which was exactly where our buzzer was. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They walk fast into the apartment, lock the door behind them and never stay long. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you locked the door behind you because...?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was a pretty crummy hotel, and there weren’t enough sheets, and there was hardly any gravity, and no one had a fake ID so they put a lock on the minibar. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You, though... several of my best are locked up in the queen’s dungeons thanks to that lying tongue of yours, and I doubt that you can even cook.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He took hold of my arms again, his long fingers locked around my wrists. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d paced the deck of their flying warship, the Argo II, checking and double-checking the ballistae to make sure they were locked down. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I found I could pull back the bolts easily enough and unhook the great chains; but the door was locked, and the key was gone! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

After she left, I locked the doors and closed the shutters. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus she managed to pry the lock loose from the frame and open the door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom finally managed to lock the door and pulled the key out with a frustrated yank. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She put down the cake knife and locked her fingers behind her head, then arched her back as if trying to work out some deep tension. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Like Alex, he had been confronted with the locked metal door and had been determined to find his way past it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I think it was locked up in here for some reason, and you wouldn’t lock up something unless it was important....” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’s very moody and has been removing more and more of her belongings and locking them up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I closed the bathroom door, locked it, and bent close to the mirror to examine my face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I noticed how he always locked the car doors when we drove through the black neighborhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My combination lock never opens on the first try. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her own parents, locked up for robbing a family-owned movie theater, inspired her kleptomaniac urges, but Aimee discovered working on herself made her feel more powerful than stealing from others. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nearby was also a locked gate with a seldom-used path that led to the little shop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rung was electrified, so that Billy’s hands locked onto it hard. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean against the door, watching the stranger like he’s a devil I’ve just locked myself in with. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At Mercy, I sit in the waiting room of the E.R. and it doesn't take much to realize that this place doesn't have double locks on the doors or surveillance cameras everywhere like at Jamison. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I am his prisoner, in the backseat, trapped by child locks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Another two steps and he was slamming the back door, locking it with a double bolt. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy metal doors open and lock behind us as the policeman leads me through a maze of rooms and out past a tall, spiky gate. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“When 1 woke up the coast was clear. Now I look back on it my head must be getting soft not to lock and barricade the door when I’m in here.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demons kept us locked inside a long, two- story warehouse for a week before it was our turn to be questioned. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tape is locked up with his will and some other valuables in his safe-deposit box at the Ilium Merchants National Bank and Trust, he says. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm quickly worked his way up the gate until he couldn’t find any more locks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The glass door to Rosie’s closes behind me, and I hear three locks immediately slide into place. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The lock clicks, and suddenly Jamie is there in his shorts and shirt, and his hair is everywhere—literally everywhere—and his blue eyes look as panicked as my heart feels. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That is, to replace its interweaving but independent voices with a more unified, streamlined sound, with the keyboard and cello locked together supportively, underpinning the sparring interplay of the two violins above them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The narrowness of the room made Matt feel as though he were locked in a box. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was panting with indignation, his bones locked in position and feeling the effort, his heart pounding in his chest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to stand completely still, because if my knees are locked and my body is stiff, I don’t shake. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“When we lock things away,” he said with conviction, “we’re really imprisoning ourselves.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And then exhale as he stretches past me to flip the lock on the delivery door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually, she locked them in their room at night with an alarm that sounded if anyone tried to escape, and they were given a bucket to use as a toilet. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He gestures for her to wait outside, and a moment later, he locks the door behind him and leads her and Max down streets narrow and sloping. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“He don’t care if they lock me up,” Mrs. Reilly sniffed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they stood there at sea in the fog, floating, and locked their hands together. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Zuri. You’re also hardheaded. You have all these walls around you that it's like your heart is locked up in some room.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Sister. Good night. You better lock all the doors.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I opened the door and walked right in, and there she was in the centre of the Sick Room floor locked in some kind of an embrace with the Latin master, Mr Victor Corrado. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our eyes lock for a long minute, and it’s as if everything around us—that band, those voices, that warm summer breeze, sirens, and honking cars in the distance—all come to a full stop. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Stretching his long legs out in front of him, Rishi folded his hands behind his head, a lock of shiny black hair flopping into his eye. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Can you shriek like an insane woman who has been locked in an attic for a great many years?” said Mrs. Windermere. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He looked around, took a bunch of keys from his pocket, locked the door, and beckoned to one of the men standing outside the church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I tried to match faces with cells as they headed out to the yard on that hot June day—it could help me when it came time to lock them back in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate opened after many locks and bolts had been undone, and an enormous woman stood before them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he wasn’t flying it, he locked it securely in his trunk and frequently dashed back up to Gryffindor Tower at break times to check that it was still there. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

During recess the teachers locked themselves up in their office with the shelves of books, copybooks, inks from China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Godalming smiled, and the man lifted a good-sized bunch of keys; selecting one of them, he began to probe the lock, as if feeling his way with it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Reaching over, I removed a bent piece of wire that locked the machine’s spinning wheel in place. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Once in my room, I locked the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Someone has put on the child safety locks. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, they would lock me up in the closet because they wanted to get high and beat up on each other. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He took a clamp from the kit and caught the needle in the jaws and locked them and set about suturing the wound. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We walked to the TV room together, and I locked the door. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She could leave us locked down here forever. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I push her up and away, locking my elbows and hiding my face in my shoulder, trying to avoid her scrabbling hands. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He came in and went straight up to the bedroom and shut and locked the door. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's locked those blue eyes on mine now, demanding an answer. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The next day I drove to the hardware store in town and bought a slide-bolt lock for my bedroom door. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I point to the keys dangling from the lock. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Its orbital period is the same as its rotational period, locked in place by its red dwarf sun.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then I pulled out a big copper-colored suitcase with buckles that locked on top. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Like Arabs and Jews, Koreans and Japanese are peoples joined by blood, yet locked in traditional enmity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He was in World War II, and some days you could really tell he was still dealin’ with it, because he’d lock himself in the bedroom all day. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Grim, he just keeps patting me on the arm and saying, "This is important, Max. Maybe this time they'll lock him up for good." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I reached the last station, where a machine fitted me with a security anklet—a padded metal band that locked around my ankle, just above the joint. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Drawing back the lock, he looked about, prepared to fire. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I get behind the wheel, close the door, and hit the lock button, hearing the satisfying sound of locks thudding down. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was the fumble of a key in the lock, and a few moments later Charles plunged through the door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I made my way back to Anker’s, but when I arrived all the inn’s windows were dark and the door was locked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The razor wire was threaded around a lock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This one is spectacular, as tall as me, with hair that falls down her back in long loose locks that appear to be made of silk, not stone. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh Jesus—” Abby reached to lock her door, but too late. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before starting the ignition, Mr. Kapasi reached back to make sure the cranklike locks on the inside of each of the back doors were secured. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like it that I was locked in, either. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He locked the communicating door on their side. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flips the locking clasp on his tool case over and over until Marie-Laure begs him to stop. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tori drove with both hands locked on the steering wheel, her eyes straight ahead. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mind filled with inky dark colors, like someone had locked me in a box. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I can hardly get the key in the lock. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m your neighbor across the hall. I locked myself out, and I wanted to use the fire escape to get over to my window.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They took my baby sister, Maha, but locked me and my brothers up in the house. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He and Mr. Loomis were locked up in the underground laboratory, apparently alone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He shoves me through the doorway, sliding the glass door closed behind us and locking it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I double locked the door and pulled the curtains. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That one what locked hisself in his house and shot at them police until they set fire to the house and burned him up. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lit on Mrs. Weidenbach’s daddy, and they both rolled in the street, locked in combat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I locked the door as directed and examined the house. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I lift my head, but Crick sets one of the straps near my cheek and it finds its way over my forehead, locking my head in place. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They had worked their way through Gracie Hall except for the basement, which was locked. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

If I got home, I could lock the door and hide under the covers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I want to put a lock on my door.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had moved closer, and now Robbie spoke briefly, and half raised his locked hands and let them fall. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lock clicked and she pushed the door open. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I run out, picking up the gun along the way When I cross the road, I lock eyes with the gunman. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

How I longed for any one of my books locked in my suitcase. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“As I remember, it was important for someone to bring me a bucket in the morning when I was locked in those things,” he says, and yawns. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Every night in the Tower,” the madwoman said, “you went from cell to cell, looking for sorrow. And when I learned to bottle mine up, to lock it away, you would snarl and howl.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s large and it’s creepy, and it almost looks capable of devouring her, so no wonder she didn’t want to lock eyes with it before. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Look, this isn't your house, you know, who do you think you are, going around locking doors?' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Normally she would have noticed that a few unruly locks of Emma’s hair were already slipping out of her ponytail rubber band and Emma had started absent-mindedly twirling one of them around her finger. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’d swear I heard her footsteps, or someone picking the lock on my studio. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole time Linda stared straight ahead, her eyes locked on the blackboard, her hands loosely folded at her lap. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were trickster hands—long, graceful fingers made for prying open locks, hiding coins, making things vanish. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Their feet were locked in leg irons and they had only the rough boards to lie upon, but Amari noticed that they had more room and that the air was a bit fresher. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was still done up Persian Casual, all curls and falls, though several locks had managed to escape their careful arrangement. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They slipped through the door, shut it, and locked it from the outside with a too-loud snick. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after we moved to the ghetto, the Nazis sealed the gates, locking us inside. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his space suit, but he didn’t want to take the time to decon out through the air lock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me and Mr. Mancuso here just having some coffee. You been nasty all afternoon. You don’t care where I raise that money. You don’t care if they lock me up. You don’t care about nothing.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still wanted to know how Kaz was going to lock them in. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Sorry for the interruption,” Mr. Jacobs said, and he ran a hand through his short brown hair, his eyes locked on the ground. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Van Eck gestured Kaz out of the eerie boathouse and locked the door behind them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His attention is now completely locked on me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lethal electric fences, however, use a continuous current that can make a person lock on to the wire as voltage causes involuntary muscle contractions, paralysis, and death. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then the turning and clicking of the locks and the wiggling of the doorknob. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I lock my legs in place and focus on my balance. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The door slammed in Tad’s face, and the lock clicked into place. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Inside she put three cans of frozen lemonade from the freezer and her lock box full of change. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I open the door, slip inside, and click the lock behind me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can cut my locks off, but if I win the bet you have to walk around with no pants on and no underwear tomorrow in school during lunch. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

They were given food and water at the end of the day, then locked back in the shed for the night. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the outer door would unlock itself and slide open, revealing a steel-reinforced air lock about the size of a shower stall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You’re not just going to lock him up in some padded room and leave him to suffer?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And all the while he must keep his hatred locked up inside him like a ball of matter which was part of himself and yet unconnected with the rest of him, a kind of cyst. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They marched in their smart gray uniforms with their legs locked straight and thrown out in front of them the way ducks walk. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now, it is possible to slip a note into a locked locker through the vents. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, I must have locked it out of habit. Absentminded and all that, you know?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They boarded a train in Birmingham, and the guards locked the doors of the cars to keep union organizers from getting to them. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I plop down onto my bed and pop the key into the tiny lock on book’s gold clasp. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Flavius performs some beauty miracle on my hair, managing to even out the front while getting some of the longer locks to hide the bald spots in the back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” he said, locking eyes with me, “it seems to me you’ve got a lot to lose right now.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to shame Grandma or hurt her feelings about how she let that white woman boss her around and had locked us in the pantry. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

What if I tried to look behind the locked door and made everyone explain their choices? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I tried again, but the lock was broken. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Tanisha screams, and she breaks out into a pop and lock when the second verse comes on. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I heard a chair moving, quick steps, the locks turning— click! click! click!—and then the door opened. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to find a way to open it, but it was locked in a way he didn’t understand. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The door is locked the door is locked. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing she asked me to do was hand her the cane propped against the table, so that she could walk to the door and lock it behind me. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

For a split second, the girl and I lock eyes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She pulled the key out of the lock. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

That locked the two labs into a zero-sum game that only one could win unless both compromised significantly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say anything about any of this to my mom,” Natalie hissed to Chess, Emma, and Finn as she turned to lock the front door. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Only one was small enough to fit into the top drawer’s lock. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe all paranoids had a sort of sixth sense for detecting places that wanted to lock them up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Kaz made quick work of the lock, and soon they were in a slender passage that would lead them to the gardens that backed the barracks of the royal guard. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Guard exits and in the silence the sound is heard of the door being locked. 5TH juror: I never knew they locked the door. 10TH JUROR: Sure they lock the door. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were locked on hers, and he was paying profound attention; there was no need to respond. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unruly patients were tied to their beds or secluded in locked rooms. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But every time I glanced back his way, Bobby Frank Cherry’s eyes were locked on mine. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He'd asked Big Harm's husband, who shares the Das surname because he's some sort of relative, to snip a lock of Baba's hair and put it in the urn before... You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tony had locked the squirt in the bathroom. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the mirror, I saw the dark silhouettes of at least three of my sisters locked in a muted struggle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Some things are simply more rare than others, and that’s why there are locks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My then boyfriend stayed to make arrangements, and I ran outside to blubber beside the parked and, unfortunately, locked car. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dozer’s buddy Petunia was locked up in the same section. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It had a lock of iron, a lock of copper, and a lock that could not be seen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This is why she thought it would be impossible to lock the door behind you. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Annabeth started considering ways to pick the lock, but as soon as she touched the pull ring, a fiery shape burned in the middle of the door: the silhouette of Athena’s owl. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore walked over to the trunk with seven locks, fitted the first key in the lock, and opened it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Since the Battle of Fort Sumter took place in South Carolina in April 1861, the United States has been a “house divided,” locked in a civil war between the free North and the slaveholding South. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I entered our house and locked the door, then put my ear to the thin wall that divided the two flats and listened. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate at the end of the driveway is always locked with a key at night. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to fasten the many locks and bolts, but Tendai had no eyes for this. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Family history, breaking and' entering, weird secrets locked up in a Ivy League fortress,” Neville said. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

If anyone had the gall to ask why the door had been locked, Jackson would respond that it hadn't been locked; the students had simply been unable to open it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they pulled up in front of the house, Mia, who was outside watering the azaleas, fought the sudden but overpowering urge to drop the hose and run inside and lock the door behind her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hop in the back and lock the doors. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Might I use your comfort room before we are locked up? I would hate to embarrass myself during my exile.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to go out to a film together, but he locked himself in our bathroom upstairs and refused to come out for nearly an hour, until my grandmother had ferreted him out. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The nights of soft dreaming of her were suddenly locked tight in his chest, and his heart beat fast. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I punch the lock button so she can hear it loud and clear. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From my bed, I would listen as my father got ready for work, then locked the door behind him, one-two-three clicks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to get up and run, but I locked my arms around his chest. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But even with my skill at lying I would have a hard time explaining broken locks and a missing script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You named this duck? Biddy, I swear they gonna lock you in a loony bin. Biddy kept on a-chattering. “You the prettiest baby duck in the whole wide world. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jake came back into the apartment and closed and locked the door. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Dad takes Butterscotch back into the house, then locks the front door on his way out. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I’d lock up the bar, make myself a double Singapore Sling, settle down with a paper fan and practically swoon with grief. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had the regular door locked, so I cut back around to the half door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wiggled the key back and forth in the stubborn lock until I heard a click. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It falls back down, missing the eye and failing to lock. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was shouting, “I want to see my son,” and “Why the hell is he locked up?” and “Of course I’m bloody angry.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“These locks are rusty. Come inside, Mr. Lolly. Rose is almost ready. I’m Dr. Betty Green.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I think the exercise is helping my elbow out. I’ll tell Ignatius he can lock himself up in his room.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was deeply familiar with humans, those creatures who had once accepted her and then locked her outside in the jungle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had just closed and locked his own trunk when he heard angry voices through the wall, and went to see what was going on. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“From here, sure. The alley is locked down.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When to lock and when to unlock was, by one reckoning, what we were here to learn. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told the teams he’d see them inside, and he and his buddy, Sergeant Thomas Amen, entered the air lock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say anything,” she says as I lock the door behind her. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, Jessie pulled out her lock box and sat on her bed. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But her knees seemed to have locked as if they would never bend again. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the beams had snapped and fallen in, and as he passed, a trickle of gravel hit his neck and shoulders, reminding him that the Dozmary Mine had been kept locked for a reason. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, he was locked in his room around the clock. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He put the key in the lock that kept it together and opened it, letting one end drop to the ground. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They let us stay long after they locked the front door to count the register and clean the machines. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The locks snapped into place, and the burglar-alarm light went on. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He cannot recall if there was a lock on the desk when it was placed here, years ago, when the office contained only the desk and a single cabinet and seemed almost spacious. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There is one day from my early childhood that I will never forget: the day my mother locked herself in her bedroom and would not come out. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“All you kids, get home, now!” he called out across the yard as he locked the building. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Uncle made me a beautiful wooden box in which I placed her chewed-up pencil, a lock of her hair my mother had cut, her toenail clippings, and other really sacred items like that. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It is a set of structural arrangements that locks a racially distinct group into a subordinate political, social, and economic position, effectively creating a second-class citizenship. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The two boats settled in, rowing in full-sprint mode, the boats streaking down the course most of the way as if locked together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The screwdriver slipped, and I hit my thumb really hard and the lock stayed locked. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sefia began gathering up Nin’s things—an oversize shirt, the spyglass, her lock picks—as if the weight of them would be enough to hold on to, now that Nin was gone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I rushed out and found her mother's maid and we locked the door and got her into a cold bath. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Sagan’s dwarf sun is much smaller, but so close to the planet it creates a tidal lock,” Dad says. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. MacMahon danced to the door then locked up behind us. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“She might not have needed saving if we hadn’t locked the thing in with her,” Harry reminded him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Tools are tucked along the tops of my boots, too—sticks of dynamite, lock picks—and an assortment of knives are strapped to my right thigh. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a second, her eyes locked with Sefia’s, warning her to stay put. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Thousands of black men have disappeared into prisons and jails, locked away for drug crimes that are largely ignored when committed by whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I bend over and reach into the bushes to get it, and when I stand backup, I lock eyes with her again. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Miss K locked the door of her room and caught up with Brad, put her arm around his shoulders, and said, “Is there something I can do to help?” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

There’s the sound of keys jangling on a key ring, and then a lock opening. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But the guard locked the banquet room door. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When Miss Lisa slammed the door behind us and locked it, separating us from Grandma, I had an awful feeling inside. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At a second blow the door yielded and fell back, with timbers burst and lock broken. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I turned toward the bathroom and locked the door behind me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

No sense buying a lock—it would be busted the first day. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie heard the key turn in the lock, then Basta saying something that made the boy laugh, and the sound of their footsteps retreating. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So Deborah locked them in her office, took the key with her, and called me saying, “Don’t tell him where you are or go see him without me.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The sweep was an almost leisurely circumnavigation of the block on ground level, to check that all inmates were in and all gates were locked, that everything was in order. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached the driveway and nosed the car into the garage, locked it, and then stood wondering if he ought to go to his room or to the kitchen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the handle, but it was locked. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Nah, man! They tried to tell us it was our fault for living in a bad neighborhood and that we shoulda had a better lock on our door.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

‘Did you tell him to lock her and bar her in?’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

But at least they didn’t scream at me or lock me up. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nixon shoved the folder back in and locked the safe. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But of more immediate importance was the dark blue van that was skidding, tires locked and squealing against the brakes, spinning wildly across the ice of the parking lot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As Palmer locked the cell, Ben asked, his voice so tremulous as to make speech nearly impossible, “Why am I in here, sir? Don’t you have to charge me with something?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how would I feel, locked away like Rapunzel in her tower? Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He shoved the lock box back into Jessie's closet and the key back into the fake pack of gum. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I slipped a pin blade into the basement door lock and broke it with a twist. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Javier stood up then, his hand still locked in Moss’s, and he pulled him up and into an embrace. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His pitiless and hate-filled eyes locked with mine as he threw the daisy garland to the floor and crushed it with his foot. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The Basmu serpent thrashed desperately as more and more golden threads wove over its body, locking it down segment by segment. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t get it to snap and lock in place, and it kept flying open every time he tried to step into the bus. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Putting the warning back into her voice, she said, “But if you two go running off like lawmen again, I’ll lock you away until you can grow beards.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I barely sleep, my muscles tensed, watching my locked bedroom door. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening his key did not fit in the lock of the front door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes I went up the six steps to the library doors and tried them and they were, of course, still locked, so I’d go sit down. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We are not like the demons, who lock a child into one name from birth—with maybe a nickname if he is lucky. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle locked himself in his room for one whole night and the next day came out as cantankerous as ever. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went back and locked it and came back. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed down the entrance hall and closed the door, flipping the lock with a click. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The web locks us into place, staring at each other as the moon slithers across the sky and the stars fall asleep. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“We might have known it, really. You remember Michel said that the door into the corridor of Mrs. Hubbard’s compartment was locked when he came in answer to her bell.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his eyes locked on hers, Mr. Larson said, “How about... the editorials'!” The whole class stopped breathing again. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

His doors in the crematorium attic were locked, and he only opened them to receive meals. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I flew into the bathroom, shut the door, and locked it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He slipped through the locked gates, walked down the hill, and into the Old Town. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As a poor white laborer, C.P., too, was locked out from the traditional Southern institutions of power. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed Mom’s third key into the lock and opened the doors, and we were inside. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Safe behind the locked door, she drenched the world with tears. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because our bathroom can be locked from both the inside and the outside. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The rule inside the air lock was that the two doors, the far door and the near door, could never be open at the same time. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the front door was locked it didn’t slow him down. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, sir. I thought it was locked.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spun and locked her arms around him like a chain of iron. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I walk in the front door, lock up, turn off the lights and then walk out the back door and lie on my table. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Yet the days crept by, and there could be no doubt that Fluffy was still alive and well behind the locked door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Frustrated that I’d missed it, I paced the floor, locked my inmates behind another gate, and waited for some news. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instructor shut the door and told the drill to those of us remaining: We were to lock elbows and move in two concentric circles around him, one clockwise, the other counterclockwise. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead the great gates were locked and Wang Lung pounded against them with both fists and no one came. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When our eyes meet, they lock and I can’t pull away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

At some point in the night they locked us in. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, it wasn’t locked when I got home today.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and we’ve got to wait until they find out that some fool has locked us in here,” added Donovan, frantically. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I think if I’d known Jesse was going to kill himself, I would have locked my arms around him and never let that kiss end. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She barricaded the door with a wooden chair, secured it with a chain and two types of key locks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the door closed, Ma’s eyes had locked on mine. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

When I was there alone, I made sure that all the gates were locked and the lights were out. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What good would it do to be in a bathroom where the door won’t even lock? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s all taken care of, Mrs. Hauser. Thank you. I just wanted to ask you if you know why or how someone could have gotten into our apartment? The doors were all locked that night.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I recognize the sound of a key turning in a lock and the metallic smell of blood. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There was a loud bang, like a gun going off, and Bridge’s body locked itself down. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Three: Our doors were locked, and there had been no obvious break-in. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe Leonard’s daughter will develop a phobia of birds being locked up in cages. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But all we see are guards and guns and a fence whose sole purpose is to keep us locked in here—that, or kill us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I get out of the car, lock the door, and head for the office, avoiding the half-feathered carcass of a bird. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t use the phone properly, I’m going to put a lock on it.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

My father did not lock the door behind him, so I slipped in and followed him with silent steps through the retiring chamber and into the bedchamber. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His pale face was locked in fierce concentration. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was locked and could not be forced. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In front of us, just a few yards down the dimly lit hallway, I see the locked doors and my stomach sinks, thinking of the way Eric's sweatshirt rolled away from Max. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Settled back in the slow, smoothly rolling fiacre we moved up the Avenue de l'Opéra, passed the locked doors of the shops, their windows lighted, the Avenue broad and shiny and almost deserted. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It occurred to him that he could close and lock his window and thus keep them out. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The air lock is a small sealed room surrounding the front door. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miles pulled the key from his pocket and locked the front door behind us. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The bed sagged, the TV picture jumped as if it were being mercilessly goosed by an electronic component, and my door didn’t lock. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

With her fingers, she finds the lock; from her coat she pulls the iron key Hubert Bazin gave her a year before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“What's on your mind, kiddo?” she says, locking me in one of those coach stares that feel like she can see all my secrets. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The lock was broken, but I’d wedged a chair under the handle. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“She locked the doors. She couldn’t wait until I was out of there.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She tries the knob but it’s locked from the outside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They lock up nice mothers. But guys who buy and sell kids get to roam free." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Time freeze-framing as the guy behind the wheel locked eyes with the hitchhiker—trapped in the headlights and unable to dodge the thousand pounds of steel sliding straight at him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A seemingly colorblind system has emerged that locks millions of African Americans into a permanent undercaste, and it appears that those who are trapped within it could have avoided it simply by not committing crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Laura had hired a locksmith to install good locks on all the bedroom doors after the house had been broken into once while they were away. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One of our main responsibilities as gallery officers is to keep the keeplocks locked up. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He double locked it in the shed and went into the yard. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A moment later I heard the click of the lock. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad your door has a dead bolt. I would have hated to wake you up to lock the door.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He brought the two ends of the chain in front of him and slid the open end into the bulky yellow lock at the other end. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He pried her loose from the wood spar, for her fingers were locked there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We locked the cat in an upstairs bathroom and Charles went down to the kitchen, to make himself something to eat, he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The screen creaked as he did so, and Moss locked eyes with him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The neatest thing in the whole room is a locked suitcase. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

One of them locked herself in the pantry-storeroom, where she had cleared off a shelf for a desk among the food. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaves and locks the door behind her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

After depressurizing, he opened the outer door and locked it in place. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept expecting to be discovered and locked out of the system, but it never happened. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But my parents’ lawyers have locked up all the money. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was too disturbing, locking eyes with him; it made me forget who was nearby, where I was sitting, what color my skirt was. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She needed a few more makeshift weapons, and a way to fortify the locks on her windows and doors. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He closed the door, waited for a moment for the click that said that Johnnie Mae had locked it, and started down the stairs. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the sound of a lock clicking shut, and then, "You can turn around, if you like." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter if I was outside, eating in the Mess Hall, or locked in my cabin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A lock gives way; a gate swings open. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Arsinoe and Achillas soon became locked in a power struggle themselves, going behind each other’s backs to bribe the troops and gain control. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The lock fell into place with a heavy sound. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Moss positioned himself so that Javier remained behind him, their hands still locked together. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could practically hear the twisted shout that was locked inside, waiting to be triggered, released. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But while all this excitement was going on outside, poor James was forced to stay locked in his bedroom, peeping through the bars of his window at the crowds below. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose Dr. Schultz grew suspicious and put locks on our cages? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Although prison guards and their legitimate children belong by blood to the core class, they are fringe functionaries locked away for most of their working lives in the freezing hinterlands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His gray-blue eyes locked onto his father’s face, suddenly blank and expressionless, like stone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Following her instructions, I leaned over, locked my forearms under Morrie’s armpits, and hooked him toward me, as if lifting a large log from underneath. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was lying on her side, naked from the waist upwards, with her cheek pillowed on her hand and one dark lock tumbling across her eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I remember being on my knees in this terrible pool and pushing up and down on his chest with my arms locked, like I learned. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She went over to the locked door and pressed her hands against it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I got out of the car and locked eyes with her. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The pins in the lock clicked, and the door swung heavily, silently, inward. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Why would they lock the gate from the outside and not the inside? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“You mean Lucia’s dogs? No, we locked them out in the garden because they ate my chocolates.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He slid the rod into the microscope until it clanked, locked in place. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been locked up as if they were very precious, but they were so patched and weatherstained that their original colour could hardly be guessed: it might have been dark green. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he made an effort to turn the key in the lock with his mouth. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door surely locked, he would have to ring the bell. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The police come in and taken him to the jail in the Black Maria. He still locked up.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The door was steel and they kept it locked, for obvious reasons. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Especially if you were a girl, the moment night fell you stayed where you were and locked the door. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I finally gave into my restlessness and left the two of them locked in an argument over canned food. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She knew nothing of the danger lurking behind those locked doors and boarded windows. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Esperanza was locked in the house, both Armijos were gone, and so the trapped dog wailed in pain all day, each of its woeful howls like an arrow piercing Herbie’s sensitive breast. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went into the air lock, pushing the hatboxes ahead of her. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All for wanting the key to what Central High School and the all-white schools across the South had kept locked away from black students like her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I became just a little uncomfortable as he tucked the lock behind my ear. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I cannot see too well because your feet are locked around my face,” he went on, “so could you tell me please if we’re halfway yet?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to pull back, to look in his face, but his hand locked my wrists in an unbreakable hold. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dad and Byron disappeared into the bathroom and the door locked behind them. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room—a room in the sheriff’s office, into which he’d locked himself before falling asleep at a desk—was dull with near-darkness. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the lenses worn by the other two...It all came back in a jolt, rushing to fill the hole in her memory like a combination lock clicking into place. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday the he-goat locked the tank and refused to give me the key,” Jomo said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His fingers brushed against her cheek as he stroked one auburn lock. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Not even a second lock. Signora Spavento is definitely not afraid of burglars.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have to shower with the curtain drawn back and the door locked. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They flew in a tight circle around Gregor and Boots, locking them in a prison of wings and fur. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Break the lock! I want that script, and I am accustomed to getting what I want. Have it for me tonight. I'll be waiting. Understood?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’d’ve come to meet you, but we decided to get started on the Polyjuice Potion,” Ron explained as Harry, with difficulty, locked the stall again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Billy and the rest of his group were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just to make sure, he went downstairs to the front door, checked the lock and found everything closed. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He locked the door and shook it to be sure and handed her the key. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Soon’s I get this scamp locked up, I’ll be back for that bowl of punch you promised, Mr. Lyte,’ he called cheerfully as he left. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know who we’re going to get to lock with me now.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Nice to meet you, by the way. Which coven are you hoping to be placed in?” whispered Thorn, almost immediately forgetting her locked mouth. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was kneeling on the other side of it, polishing the lock with an oily rag and rottenstone. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bible is kept locked up, the way people once kept tea locked up, so the servants wouldn’t steal it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the big cell key in more than thirty locks and finished before Smith; he was stopping at several cells to say good morning, I noticed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many hours can one person spend locked in a bathroom, looking at skin, hair, eyes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Three overlapping cylinder locks, each dependent on the next. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He leapt from his chair, hurried to the window and tried to open it, but it was locked. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She locked the door and scurried down the steps. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The key sounded in the lock as the bucket returned to my hands, wiped empty this time. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lock the door behind me and turn on the bath tap. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, locking eyes with him. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Black men, they say, have much higher rates of violent crime; that’s why so many of them are locked up. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Because rising sea levels continually flooded the shore, marshy Cape Cod did not fully lock into its contemporary configuration until about 1000 B.C. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Cassie rescheduled for the next test and got her nails done at a salon, Enchanted Blue, while they locked me up and dripped sugar water into my empty veins... Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Then, when he was quite sure the man in black would not go to his maker embarrassed, Fezzik locked his arms tight around. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the click that meant the lock had given way. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My mom goes out the door and I hear her lock it from the outside. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The two boats churned up the lake for almost a quarter of a mile, locked together in that configuration— Washington’s white blades glinting in the sunlight, Cal’s flashing shards of blue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Probably off the hook or something,” she said, locking up the front door. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ishtar flicked her loose hair from her face, and starlight sparkled within her locks. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He studies the people milling about on the landing across from where he stands, every one of them with their gaze locked on the new arrivals. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I kept my mouth locked tight against the king of England. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she locked eyes with me, said something to Paul, and they ran straight toward us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

His free hand was locked around my throat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I locked the door after him and sat down on the bed to the loud twang of springs. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brightbill tried to squirm away, but thick fingers locked around him like a cage. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead her stepmother turned the key in the lock and woke her, saying, “Beatrice is ill. She won’t be here today.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

How would she feel, locked out all night? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I hear the click of the locks on the solarium doors, then the ones in my bedroom. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He knew, somewhere in this temple, there was a beast locked away. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Roamer says, “They keep that door locked and barricaded. That place is harder to get into than your pants, from what I hear. ” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lexie would be perched at the counter, twirling a lock of hair around her finger, wondering where she was. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

How might one prepare, locked in most complete immobility? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I locked him in and breathed a sigh of relief. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think making me quit my job and locking me in the house did the trick. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the padlock was hooked through the hasp on the door, and it was locked, which meant Emma would be gone all day. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tucking the lock picks away, she jammed a bundle of Nin’s things into her pack and shouldered it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

What could be so important that Ma would keep it locked away in her kitchen cupboard? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her mother held her hand, and Eleanor locked her jaw shut. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

In order to confirm her prediction she brought her cards to the house a few days later and locked herself up with José Arcadio in a granary off the kitchen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Boom! Just a warning to keep doors locked," the delivery boy said, dumping a carton of Westing Paper Products on the kitchen floor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to get up and lock myself in my room, but I sort of want to know Pathetic Priscilla’s fate, so I decide to stick around. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dad was probably out shopping for chains to lock us to our bedposts. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The breeze catches his hair and plays with three rogue locks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I took care to avoid the dark recesses of the cellar and the door to the storeroom, still locked, its key long lost. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

And he moved toward a locked door, swiping the card to gain entrance. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“How could you, when he keep hit locked all day en night?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z