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Recent Examples of footlockerHis camp trunk, a traveling footlocker, now rests in the Smithsonian.—Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023 The tiny homes themselves come equipped with a bed, sleeping bag, pillows, a footlocker, towels, lighting, electronics charging station, and a heater.—oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2022 In the summer of 2011, Allen and her husband forced Ame Deal to get into a small footlocker in their garage that was not air conditioned during a sweltering July night.—Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2022 In 2002, he was found inside a footlocker that had been set on fire.—Fox News, 11 July 2022 See All Example Sentences for footlocker
There’s a parallel universe where possibly one of the greatest songs of all time, and definitely the best song ever written about the boys being back in town, was squandered off into the abyss of record-store crates and never given a chance to shine.
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Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2026
Pictures of the stand filed in court by the city show a hodgepodge of food ingredients, spices, cooking oils, pots, crates, and propane tanks powering a campfire stove.
Excusing those two flickers of broken hegemony, the WSL’s highest echelon has been an unassailable strongbox, a figment of the rest of the table’s imagination.
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Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Buffs have been made to various maps in terms of monster density, chests, number of rare and magic monsters, essences, strongboxes, shrines and all of this is without specific Waystone or Tower modifiers.
The vehicle was apparently abandoned in the Hollywood Hills and towed to a police impound lot, where an employee noticed a foul smell emanating from the trunk last September and alerted authorities.
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Andi Babineau,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
There were no skeletons at the bottom, just various farm implements (an axe, a bark spud used for peeling bark off fresh tree trunks, a chain, and various minor trinkets).
The watch comes with a lockbox containing extensive documentation, including letters between Jack Heuer (then-Heuer CEO) and Nunley, and over 200 archival photographs from the set.
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Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
15 Apr. 2026
Upgrade Your Front Door Area Your front door is where buyers stand while their agent unlocks the lockbox.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Apr. 2026
Schuch paused in front of a Tetra Pak carton of Côtes du Rhône, noting that while such packaging had gone over fine in Nordic countries, French consumers had rejected it vehemently.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Just like trying to drive around while spreading ketchup on a carton of French fries, the brand’s origin story is not without its messiness.
Chapter 1: The First Lieutenant Each man in the squadron carried, along with a sea chest, his own burdensome story.
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David Grann,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2023
The crack formed on a spot where two pieces were welded together and was hidden behind a sea chest that houses a fire pump, which is part of an onboard sprinkler system.