How to Use deadlock in a Sentence

deadlock

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  • City councilors reached a deadlock over the law.
  • His goal broke a 3–3 deadlock.
  • But the deadlock didn’t last long, and the Padres got the best of the Dodgers again.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2021
  • At the core of the deadlock is the issue of how the war in Gaza will end.
    — Susannah George, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • After the deadlock, the players had to vote again to break the tie.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The deadlock led to a lot draw on April 7, which Price won.
    — Drew Dawson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The goal broke a 1-1 deadlock that lasted for well over half the game.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The Houthis and the coalition have both been trapped in a deadlock ever since.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The score helped Highland break the deadlock en route to a 27-7 win over the Blue Devils.
    — Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Several rounds of talks have failed to break the deadlock.
    — Rishi Lekhi and Ashok Sharma, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • That left me with ‘S_A_R’ and here’s where the real deadlock occurred.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
  • These protests come after weeks of deadlock over a cease-fire deal.
    — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • But England had two chances to break the deadlock just before half-time.
    — Time, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Several talks so far have failed to break the deadlock.
    — Altaf Qadri and Krutika Pathi, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The same basic red and blue states, the same partisan deadlock.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2022
  • That brought up Tellez, who hit a soft liner to center to score García and break the deadlock.
    — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2021
  • After the host had kept the 14-time European champion at bay in the first half, Díaz broke the deadlock in the 48th minute.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The talks between Tesla and India could once again end in a deadlock.
    — Ragini Saxena, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The 4-4 deadlock is expected to remain in place until the seat is filled.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But the deadlock between the two parties has survived it all.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • With neither side able to break the deadlock, the game went to a half-hour extra time period.
    — Dallas News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Freshman Nolan Russell broke the deadlock, jamming in a rebound on the backside of the play to put the Spy Ponders on the board.
    — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
  • But Sterling broke the deadlock just after halftime with a shot from the edge of the area, and doubled the lead in the 63rd with a tap-in from Reece James’ cross at the far post.
    — Mattias KarÉn, ajc, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Indeed, despite the 2-2 deadlock, both sides had plenty of chances to score more.
    — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2021
  • After months of deadlock, the TEA replaced the entire board with five managers in 2016.
    — Henry Krausse, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The deadlock was broken at the 15th hole when Rahm and Hatton could do no better a best-ball of bogey.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The accord with Sinema broke the deadlock, allowing for swift passage — and a win for the Biden White House.
    — Robert Draper, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • In the second minute of first-half stoppage time the deadlock was broken by Miranchuk.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 16 June 2021
  • And the government has been in political deadlock for months, with the parliament failing to elect a president 12 times.
    — Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Despite their claims, in 1996, three years after their first trial ended in a deadlock, the brothers were convicted of the first-degree murders of their parents and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024

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