How to Use locker-room in a Sentence

locker-room

1 of 2 adjective
  • Make some friends with players on the team, being in a locker-room setting again.
    Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Payton loves the running back as both a back and a locker-room catalyst.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Holtmann tried to lend some perspective to his players in a locker-room speech.
    Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • What was once a charming locker-room vignette now reads as something far more profound.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Just by flashing his aw-shucks grin, Wiggins can ease locker-room tensions.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Smith lost his starting role after he was punched in the face following a locker-room dispute.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The hope is that taking that tact would minimize the locker-room impact of the rumor mill.
    Sam Amick, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • Things will not change in one day, but the locker-room summit seemingly offered a new path forward.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 15 June 2025
  • There were dozens of ice packs, foam rollers, and empty Gatorade bottles scattered across the locker-room floor.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 June 2025
  • To a degree, that makes Johnson somewhat of a locker-room dog breeder.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025
  • The presence of my column on locker-room bulletin boards is second only to its presence on bathroom floors.
    David Scott, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • When that base was gone in 2025, players noted a void in locker-room leadership as well.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The tent soon has a locker-room aroma, and people fan themselves sluggishly with paper plates and Bibles.
    Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • There is gossip, lots of locker-room talk and constant jockeying to undermine other teams.
    Karla Miller, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
  • Not the clotheslining and rage-tweeting-about-White-privilege-from-the-locker-room kind.
    Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In a locker-room session done the right way — when players are present at their lockers — a reporter should be able to speak with multiple players.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Smith lost his starting job in 2015 after he was punched in the face following a locker-room dispute.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The longtime locker-room leader took a massive pay cut last offseason to stay in Carolina.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2024
  • Richardson, the Colts’ back-up signal-caller, sustained the eye injury in the locker-room and was quickly ruled out of the game.
    Ben Morse, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The veteran would bring a new element to the Vancouver bottom six and is known as a strong locker-room presence.
    Pierre Lebrun, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
  • After only a few days of trial, an off-putting locker-room vibe had consumed the public section of the overflow room and spilled out into the street at breaks.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 9 July 2025
  • Just consider the term locker-room talk, referring to vulgar conversations men might have while changing.
    Jacob Beckert, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The survey results often provide validation and locker-room white-board fodder in equal parts for teams eager to prove themselves.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2025
  • Some people are forthright when Boulet asks, with a cameraman in tow, a question that is often not spoken, or at most in a locker-room whisper.
    The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2025
  • The adjoining locker-room bath areas keep saunas, hot baths and cold plunge pools running for guests, though access carries a fee for those not staying in the hotel's top-tier rooms.
    Winston Ross, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • So pulling Xavier into the locker-room revelry and giving him the ball after the most impressive game of Tatum’s life was an easy choice.
    Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • The access provided glimpses of the team’s workouts, games, Phillips’ locker-room talks and lighter moments away from the gymnasium.
    Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Though few doubt Kuminga’s upside, the Warriors don’t want his frustrations over playing time to cause locker-room friction.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2023
  • However, the long-time veteran has certainly managed to stick around as a terrific locker-room presence.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The secondary’s lack of ball-production, in fact, became the subject of good-natured locker-room needling early in the year — and something slightly more, as weeks went by.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 9 June 2026

locker room

2 of 2 noun
  • A lot of guys in the locker room do.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Not on the bench or in the locker room.
    Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 14 May 2026
  • On the court, and in the locker room.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Their team does the same in their locker room.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 27 June 2026
  • For now, what isn’t lost is the locker room.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
  • There were tears in the locker room that night, too.
    Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Brink walked out of the locker room postgame on her own.
    ABC News, 16 June 2026
  • Nah, that's gonna cause a riff-raff in the locker room.
    Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026
  • All the guys were kind of fired up to see him in the locker room.
    Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 28 June 2026
  • Fatu found Sikoa in the locker room.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026
  • The locker room is where girls learn to be girls and boys learn to be boys.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
  • So was the party in the locker room.
    Pete Grathoff june 21, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2026
  • The locker room was a little bit pissed off.
    Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Also, a lot of guys in this locker room.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 24 May 2026
  • She was helped off the floor and into the locker room.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Of course, the locker room comes with a mirror.
    Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • These guys in the locker room are gonna be my brothers for life.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 2 June 2025
  • Brunson has since checked out and gone to the locker room.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 4 June 2026
  • The mood is better when all the guys are back in the locker room.
    Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Not even his locker room of players.
    Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • What type of message does this send to the rest of the locker room?
    Geoffrey Knox, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Will the team be amenable to uses of the field and the locker rooms?
    Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
  • And not just inside the locker room.
    Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Yale added a women’s locker room to the boathouse the next year.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 6 June 2026
  • Payton did not have a chance to tell the team in the postgame locker room.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But the vibe in the postgame locker room wasn’t angst, anger or regret.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The guys in this room, or in this locker room, and on the team — winners.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
  • There’s nothing to be ashamed of with our locker room right now from this game.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Monk limped off the floor and headed straight to the locker room late in the first half.
    Jason Anderson january 25, Sacbee.com, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Then, midway through the first half, his star point guard left for the locker room.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2026

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