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combination-lock

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Examples

  • She runs her fingers over its combination-lock buttons.

    Smile for the Camera Kelle James 2010

  • Apart from the monogram, the safe front contained a brushed-steel handle, and one centrally located combination-lock dial, bearing numbers zero through fifty.

    The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

  • I remembered my father coming home from work, immaculately dressed in a suit and tie, setting his combination-lock briefcase down by the door and holding his arms open.

    The Guy Not Taken Jennifer Weiner 2006

  • The young inventor did not know that a key was missing from his ring, nor, as he twirled the dial of the combination-lock, did he realize that

    Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope Victor [pseud.] Appleton

  • Within its radius appeared two hands, long, supple, strong, immaculately white, graceful and dexterous, as delicate of contour as a woman's, yet lacking nothing of masculine vigor and modeling; hands that wavered against the blackness, fumbling with the shining nickeled disk of a combination-lock ....

    The Brass Bowl Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • AVerMedia carrying case, and a Kensington combination-lock security cable.

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

  • The IP65 three-digit combination-lock and cylinder-key unit can be operated with the digital thumbwheel combination lock - which may be easily reset - or overridden with a standard cylinder key.

    Electronicstalk - electronics industry news 2010

  • But the Bowmen are getting tired of people climbing over their combination-lock gate, walking the quarter-mile gravel driveway past the big signs that say

    unknown title 2009

  • I suppose you have a whole armory in that combination-lock suitcase of yours, "he added bitterly.

    Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

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