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Example sentences for: locks

How can you use “locks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

locked by two turns of the key, as in some locks and many novels
Many comely youths, on the other hand, look much like Shelley's portrait, with flowing locks and tender throats exposed above their soft suede suits.
Two Maryland counties yesterday passed laws requiring safety locks to be included with every handgun sale.
This bias normally influences both the orientation and conformation of the ligand in the active site, which usually represents a local minimum conformation [ 14 ] . More importantly, the lock and key concepts used to evaluate enzyme-substrate binding, in reality, refer to flexible locks and keys that are both in constant dynamic (thermal) motion [ 15 ] . For example, an analysis of conformational changes upon complex formation for a representative set of 39 pairs of ligand-free and ligand-bound structures showed that 50% of these proteins undergo substantial main-chain and side chain conformational changes when the ligand is bound [ 15 ] .
Should I let the matter slide; should I ask the manager to change the locks; or should I ask for the key back?