locked in
Synonyms
Examples
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks water from the springs of the bed.