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.
  • After the deadlock, the players had to vote again to break the tie.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Who would be trustworthy and persuasive enough to break the deadlock?
    — Ariel Procaccia, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The deadlock raised questions about whether Congress would be able to salvage the emergency aid package and, if so, how.
    — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The deadlock has kept tensions simmering in the Balkan region following the bloody breakup of former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
    — Dusan Stojanovic, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Foligno, working on the second unit power play, delivered the goal for the 3-3 deadlock.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
  • A year and a half later, Bibi is back on the campaign trail, along with the political deadlock that paralyzed the country for most of the past four years.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The plan — which was included in a budget trailer bill — effectively ends a year of deadlock on how to spend the $4.2 billion in bond funds for the train.
    — Susanne Ruststaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • In reality, the European Union says that new demands by Iran this month had caused the deadlock.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The deadlock forces a mistrial in her case, but prosecutors have the option of trying her case again.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Because of the deadlock, none of the justices' writings in the case hold any value as court precedent and can't be relied on to determine how the court could rule in the future.
    — Stephen Gruber-Miller, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • Gigi Sohn will be a strong, effective voice and vote for the public interest, and a key to breaking the FCC's current deadlock.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The game was heading for extra time when Ibrahim Diakité crossed for Boya to finally break the deadlock with a header inside the near post.
    — CiarÁn Fahey, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2024

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