How to Use deadlock in a Sentence

deadlock

noun

• City councilors reached a deadlock over the law.
• His goal broke a 3–3 deadlock.
• 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
• 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
• Vrioni broke the deadlock with a right-footer in the 52d minute, his fourth goal of the season and first since a two-goal performance April 22.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
• Despite the deadlock, officials say the urgency to close the deal has grown.
  — Nasser Karimi, ajc, 11 May 2022
• Having once been in the construction business himself, Yoon knew that the deadlock might drag on for years.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Cowboys running back Duane Thomas broke a 3-3 deadlock in the third quarter with a 13-yard touchdown run.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2022
• French President Emmanuel Macron arrives weakened by the prospect of weeks of political deadlock at home after national elections Sunday delivered no clear path to a new government.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2024
• In 1996, three years after their first trial ended in a deadlock, the siblings were convicted of the first-degree murders of their parents and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024