| 1930 J. W. Campbell Black Star Passes in Amazing Stories Q. Fall 523/1 | Through the air-locks the great ships settled into their world. |
| 1970 A. McCaffrey Ship who Sang (1991) i.20 | She must put on the suit because the airlock had no independent oxygen or cooling units. |
| 1973 A. C. Clarke Rendezvous with Rama (1974) 20 | A clearly marked circular disc, a hundred metres in diameter, was centred on the Pole, and Norton had a strong suspicion that this must be the outer seal of an enormous airlock. |
| 1979 A. C. Clarke Fountains of Paradise 137 | The second floor was completely empty, devoid even of temporary fittings. Someone had chalked a large rectangle on the curved plastic panel of the wall and printed inside it: AIRLOCK HERE? |
| 1980 D. Brin Sundiver iv.xii. 128 | Now LaRoque was putting on a spacesuit in a tool closet twenty meters from an outer airlock. |
| 1981 C. J. Cherryh Pride of Chanur (1991) vii. 108 | Dur Tahar laid her ears back and started to go, lingered for one poisonous look beyond, toward the airlock, and a focus snapped back on center. |
| 1984 D. Brin Practice Effect i. iv. 13 | Anything shoved through the airlock would arrive on the anomaly world. |
| 1985 M. W. Bonanno Dwellers in Crucible xi.233 | A slight, athletic figure?braved his way through the RihanFed Border Station toward the helmeted and heavily armed sentry at the single airlock. |
| 1992 A. Steele Labyrinth of Night 40 | Since the airlock could accommodate only two people at a time, the two men had allowed Miho to have her privacy while they waited in the depressurised garage. |
| 1993 A. C. Clarke Hammer of God 118 | As they were walking through the airlock to the pressurized Marscar that had brought them from the hotel, the exhibition produced one final surprise. |
| 1998 L. A. Graf & M. J. Friedman War Dragons x. 140 | You'd have to dock her at the emergency airlock on the primary hull. |
| 1998 G. Cox Assignment: Eternity iii. 38 | Toss them out an airlock? |
| 2005 R. J. Sawyer Mindscan xxx. 218 | Then we cycled through the airlock, which happened to be adjacent to the pad where the moonbuses landed. |
