How to Use footlocker in a Sentence

footlocker

noun
  • The battery pack is a box about the size and shape of a footlocker.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Some guy would come in with all his stuff in a bag and a footlocker.
    Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2019
  • For decades people would claim to have found them in some marine footlocker somewhere.
    National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2016
  • G.I. Joe was a breakthrough: a boy’s doll, only in battle dress, with a footlocker full of accessories that kept young fans hungry for more.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • Officials said the inmates made the alcohol using bread, fruit and sugar from the prison’s kitchen and stored it in watertight footlockers under their beds.
    Washington Post, 25 May 2017
  • Officials said the inmates made the alcohol using bread, fruit and sugar from the prison’s kitchen and stored it in watertight footlockers under their beds.
    Grant Schulte, The Seattle Times, 25 May 2017
  • Whitman rode the elevator to the twenty-seventh floor, dragged his footlocker up the stairs to the observation deck, and introduced the nation to the idea of mass murder in a public space.
    Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Hollywood icons and pinup models had long worn two-piece suits, as was evident under the lids of thousands of GI footlockers still being shipped home from Europe.
    Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 July 2018
  • Walls are either the same smooth concrete of the exterior or painted gray; the metal display cases look almost as rusty as the footlockers on exhibit.
    Julie V. Iovine., WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Whitman packed all this into a footlocker with enough food to last two weeks and rode the elevator up the University of Texas clock tower, which had an observation deck.
    Steve Russell, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2017
  • My dad’s footlocker did not survive the flood, but many of its contents suffered only minor damage.
    Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2025
  • The work is carried out in three gray wooden boxes the size of footlockers that house the colony.
    Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 13 May 2025
  • Each room has six beds with bedbug-proof mattresses and a footlocker for personal effects.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In 2002, he was found inside a footlocker that had been set on fire.
    Fox News, 11 July 2022

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