skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "padlock" in a sentence

    padlock example sentences

    padlock


    padlocked


    padlocks


    1. The padlock on the door was unlocked and the bolt moved back


    2. A key in a padlock


    3. It was locked with a huge chain and padlock


    4. She visualized the controls of state as an antique panel behind a heavy cast iron plate with a ten pound padlock on it


    5. At the top of the stairs he has installed a wrought iron garden gate, which is six foot tall and secured against a similarly heavy metal door frame with a padlock


    6. You have to stay in the game to be a winner, but on this occasion the underdog is exactly that and Shaun has the padlock key in his hand


    7. He walks up to the door and unlocks the padlock


    8. ‘There’s a ruddy great gate with a padlock on it,’


    9. Gretel ran to set her brother free and they made quite sure that the oven door was tightly shut with a large padlock


    10. There where no horses in the large padlock, they had been moved the previous week as the grass was now brown and dry

    11. “Lez go; we eat someteeng, hokay?” In the kitchen, Herminia glared at a padlock affixed to the refrigerator and angrily rattled it within its hasp


    12. A padlock, carelessly hanging loose directly above the unprotected engine, had been swinging back and forth all afternoon


    13. Withdrew the padlock, glowing red and sheared by a third, from the engine's great heart


    14. He closed the lid and reminded himself to buy another padlock


    15. He reached behind her and unlocked the padlock that bound her arm chains


    16. Rattling the chained padlock of


    17. With a single shot, he blasted the padlock from the barrier,


    18. It had always been in there, but this was the first time she had seen it without its padlock


    19. padlock lay cleaved in two on the earth beside it, the precision cut


    20. Napoleon Bonaparte was dispatched to close it down, and the general himself is said to have padlock the doors

    21. She felt in her pocket for the bolts, padlock and small


    22. a hasp on the outside of the bedroom door in order to fasten a padlock to it


    23. be pretty obvious as to why a padlock was there, but she didn’t care about that


    24. He cussed himself for forgetting oil for the padlock but it proved easy to open, some corrosion and grime having been removed by its recent operation


    25. There was no way out of the sty; the metal gate was secured by a hefty padlock, and the walls were too high to climb with her short piggy legs


    26. This cupboard now had a small golden padlock on its silver handle


    27. Gomes heard him rummaging through a drawer then he came back into the living room and held up the key to the padlock and handed it across to the Colonel


    28. set of keys from his pocket he marched over to the padlock


    29. Lewis unlocked the padlock and removed the chain


    30. The gates were chained with padlock

    31. No one had gone into the room again since they had taken Melquíades’ body out and had put on the door a padlock whose parts had become fused together with rust


    32. The officer made them open the padlock and with a quick sweep of his lantern he saw the workbench and the glass cupboard with bottles of acid and instruments that were still where their owner had left them and he seemed to understand that no one lived in that room


    33. At Melquíades’ room, which was locked up again with the padlock, Santa Sofía de la Piedad tried one last hope


    34. He asked her, therefore, to leave the meals on the windowsill and padlock the door


    35. After six months of enclosure, since the soldiers had left Macondo Aureliano Segundo removed the padlock, looking for someone he could talk to until the rain stopped


    36. She left him in the room, but she succeeded in getting them to leave the padlock off, clean it every day, throw the chamberpots away except for one, and to keep José Arcadio Segundo as clean and presentable as his great--grandfather had been during his long captivity under the chestnut tree


    37. Harmony sank to her knees as she looked at the large rusty padlock


    38. 7mm pistol, and her folding combat knife, putting the three weapons and her spare ammunition on the top shelf of her locker before securing it with a key padlock


    39. chained with a heavy padlock


    40. Max unlocked the padlock on the skip’s front lid and lifted it, so he could reach in

    41. By using the padlock, he locked the lid shut from the inside


    42. ” He pointed toward the padlock on the door


    43. Claydon nodded tersely, then proceeded to unlock the padlock


    44. Each individual stall had large doors locked with a chain and padlock and were provided with piles of hay and basins full of water


    45. It was fastened with two screw-eyes held together by an old padlock


    46. Suong bent down and unlocked the padlock with a silver key


    47. “You know that I am!” Paul said, watching his mother unlock the padlock and raise the truck’s back door


    48. A padlock was only loosely hooked over eyelets


    49. Comben went back outside and replaced the padlock


    50. A chain and padlock kept them shut










































    1. all thick wood, padlocked shut,


    2. Kurt checked the door which was padlocked


    3. One door read ‘waiting room’ and was heavily padlocked


    4. Upon discovering the cabinets also padlocked shut, she spiraled into a wild frenzy of frustration


    5. behind him, the lights went off and the door was padlocked


    6. Moving quietly to the second entrance, they found it too, was secured and padlocked


    7. “I apologise for the somewhat unconventional entrance, but the door was padlocked and I am not permitted to force an entry without an official warrant


    8. Sandwiches and a thermos of coffee tasted great on a hired rowboat on the Serpentine, having padlocked the wheelchair to the railings, then an ‘oom pah pah’ brass band in the rotunda with not a microphone or amplifier in sight, rounded off a perfect afternoon


    9. ‗There‘s no obvious security at the gate, but after the first bend there‘s a weighted barrier padlocked in place that Sebastian agrees is always there when he goes for a check-up


    10. The house was fenced in high with stained flat pickets, and its gate securely padlocked

    11. This section looked abandoned, the warehouses run down, padlocked and in poor condition


    12. loading docks sat silent and empty and the great gates were padlocked shut


    13. over to the padlocked gates and give the assembled strikers his very best smile


    14. The windows were covered and padlocked, as was the door


    15. like this, padlocked to a chain which could be either individual or collective


    16. A small path led to a white boat-house which was double padlocked - and


    17. Mutt took the end of one chain and looped it around the ankle of their victim and padlocked it in place


    18. Sir Robin Algar was just leaving for lunch when Major Clayton arrived, with his brief case padlocked to his wrist


    19. Here was Robbie joking about breaking through padlocked gates and stout oak doors, when all the while he was just the person who might be able to do such a thing


    20. A short set of rotten steps led up to a chained and padlocked door

    21. Placid shoved the girl into a secure cage and padlocked it


    22. She was still a few feet away from it when she noticed there was power to it and the door was padlocked


    23. ’ The door was padlocked and would not give


    24. car, and out the front, a padlocked gate negotiated head on


    25. I swiftly bury all thought of the song in one of the many padlocked boxes in my brain and resume reciting silent poetry, vowing to never think about it again until the king has removed his parasite from my body


    26. The roll-up metal door was still padlocked from the outside


    27. The door to it was at the south end, and was padlocked


    28. In late March, the machine parts factory is padlocked, and Frau Elena and the girls are sent to work for a civilian firm cleaning the streets after bombings


    29. Don Pepe padlocked each door in succession, and at the signal of his whistle the string of carts would move off, closely surrounded by the clank of spur and carbine, with jolts and cracking of whips, with a sudden deep rumble over the boundary bridge ("into the land of thieves and sanguinary macaques," Don Pepe defined that crossing); hats bobbing in the first light of the dawn, on the heads of cloaked figures; Winchesters on hip; bridle hands protruding lean and brown from under the falling folds of the ponchos


    30. The building was still standing, but its doors were padlocked, the windows shattered, and the letters K and R missing from its name

    31. It was a large flat tomb, flush with the gravel, with a thin kindling door flat on it, padlocked


    32. A cold, harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting breeze blew in the cage of these doves


    33. Down on the pier, his bike was still padlocked against a lamppost


    34. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of undecipherable arabesque


    35. Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were all shut, bolted, and padlocked


    36. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with stout cord


    37. Before the padlocked door walked a sentinel, musket on shoulder; and not far off was the soldier who was to replace him


    1. plate, and judging by the array of padlocks hanging from various


    2. I put new padlocks on the shop so Vangie couldn‘t get into it


    3. The padlocks on each of the wall lockers were in place


    4. There were two sets of double doors to the garage, both with heavy padlocks


    5. The cabin had two double-bunk beds opposite each other, with drawers under the lower beds and four large metallic lockers at one end that could be secured with padlocks


    6. Once the chariots and beasts were inside their individual stalls, the two guides gave the keys for their padlocks to the respective chariot owners, telling them to hook the keys to the safety lanyards already supporting the keys of their new strongboxes


    7. medium sized metal chest sealed with security padlocks and chained to a


    8. but what's happened? Three of the four straps are undone, and only the padlocks are keeping the case closed


    9. "I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my gratitude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and every convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression


    10. In an instant he had cleared every obstacle away, and he saw successively the lock, placed between two padlocks, and the two handles at each end, all carved as things were carved at that epoch, when art rendered the commonest metals precious

    11. There was now a police lock on the front door, and two padlocks on the little garage out back; one on the inside, for when Solomon Grungy was holed up in there—which was most of the time—and one on the outside, for when he was out


    12. The front door was painted black and so were the padlocks


    13. That night the doors were again broken open, the padlocks smashed, the books mutilated, and other disorders perpetrated


    14. We discovered that it would be futile to attempt to cut away the bars and chains which held him prisoner, so, at his suggestion I returned to search the bodies on the floor above for keys to open the padlocks of his cell and of his chains


    15. The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks


    16. On work days the barracks were shut very early as night approached, but an exception was made during the Christmas holidays, when the padlocks were not put to the gates until the evening retreat—nine o'clock


    17. Collar-straps, padlocks, perch-bolts, and things even of greater value belonging to others found their way with remarkable rapidity and in great quantities to Polikey’s home


    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "padlock"

    padlock chain cable restraint bond

    "padlock" definitions

    a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut


    fasten with a padlock