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
• 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
• 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
• Just by flashing his aw-shucks grin, Wiggins can ease locker-room tensions.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
• 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 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
• And the three-time MVP was in typical deadpan form, postgame, peppered with locker-room questions on his stroke of first-half magic.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 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
• 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
• The Sky are expected to re-sign Onyenwere, who has been a locker-room leader in addition to a journeyman wing who can step in to start in a pinch.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
• In January, Queen played heavy minutes in back-to-back games on a West Coast road trip with the team ailing and battling locker-room illnesses.
  — Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• More Getty Images The decision stems from Clark's locker-room outburst after missing the cut at the course by a single stroke.
  — Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
• But Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissent, noted that for years the coach had led students in locker-room prayers.
  — Linda K. Wertheimer, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
• Jordan cries during the locker-room celebration and receives the first of six Finals MVP awards.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Refreshed by some locker-room AC and a halftime tactical tweak to better cover wide areas, the U.S. looked better in the second half and had more chances.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2023
• The longtime locker-room leader took a massive pay cut last offseason to stay in Carolina.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2024
• Perhaps Kevin Love, who had served as a locker-room (and social-media) buffer during the worst of times over Butler’s six weeks of Heat-ed petulance this season.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
• Max Christie reclined in his locker while a recent Grizzlies game played on the Lakers’ locker-room television.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
• Max Christie reclined in his locker while a recent Grizzlies game played on the Lakers’ locker-room television.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
• 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, 8 Apr. 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
• 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
• The locker-room champagne celebration is fine, but one problem: there’s no pool table.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
• Paul was just a well-known irritant around the league, and the Clippers’ raucous locker-room celebration annoyed the visitors.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 25 June 2024

locker room

2 of 2 noun

• Will the team be amenable to uses of the field and the locker rooms?
  — Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
• Evans limped off the field and went back to the locker room.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
• Williams went to the locker room but returned to the game.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2022
• The mood is better when all the guys are back in the locker room.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• What type of message does this send to the rest of the locker room?
  — Geoffrey Knox, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Aug. 2025
• That’s going to be a hard sell in the Ravens’ locker room.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2023
• But after halftime, the guard spent the rest of the game in the locker room.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
• That’s a credit to the culture in that room and in the locker room.
  — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2022
• My outfits need to work from the locker room to the TV screen.
  — Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 27 May 2025
• Being in the locker room with the guys, those are the best times that stick out in my mind.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• The last of the light had headed toward the locker room.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2023
• That’s the ethos the head coach wants everybody in the locker room to have.
  — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 11 Mar. 2025
• Booker left the game and went to the locker room late in the third quarter.
  — oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2022
• Reeve spent time with Griner in the locker room after the game.
  — Doug Feinberg, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2024
• The guys in the locker room really like him – all the guys.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 3 Apr. 2022
• Players had to walk up four flights of stairs to reach the cramped locker rooms.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
• Spreading the field Every running back in the A&M locker room touched the ball in the win.
  — Grant Gaspard, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Late in the fourth quarter, when the Nuggets waved the white flag, Porter headed to the locker room.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2025
• Then he was placed on a cart on the sideline and driven back to the locker room.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2023
• Being able to pick the brains of some of the guys in the locker room there was pretty cool.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2022
• The passion each has for the game and for teammates resonates in the locker room.
  — Calvin Watkins The Dallas Morning News, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023
• Most of the team walked back to the locker room in front of a vocal phalanx of fans.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 9 Mar. 2025
• There’s no hanging out in the locker room or any of that.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
• Coming out of the locker room on fire, France opened up a 10-point lead on the US.
  — Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 11 Aug. 2024
• In the ad, the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star and model tie up their shoelaces in a locker room.
  — Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 13 June 2025
• These guys in the locker room are gonna be my brothers for life.
  — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 2 June 2025
• Foles is still sore from the hit, though McLeod talked to him in the locker room Monday.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2023
• Kelce limped off the field and was sent to the locker room for x-rays as his team finished the first half.
  — Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 8 Oct. 2023
• The athletic cart came out for Moore and he was taken to the locker room.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
• More than 8 in 10 students reported feeling safe in the hallways, bathrooms, locker rooms and cafeterias.
  — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025