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Recent Examples of locker Camp staff worked quickly to close the doors and huddle all the children into a safe corner, moving lockers for extra protection. Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025 But just try not to be tickled by even the simplest of the show’s trickery, like when a book fallen from a school locker flies right back in. Greg Evans, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2025 Penn learned the story of how her grandmother escaped in 2022 during a visit to her mother’s bank locker, where she was invited to select a piece of jewelry: a tiny flat piece of gold in the shape of a mermaid. Sadiya Ansari Spandita Malik, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025 Ahead of the final round on Sunday, 14 years later, McIlroy opened his locker up to an unexpected surprise from Angel Cabrera. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for locker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for locker
Noun
  • Halbert suggests storing fleece and thermal pajama sets in bins under beds.
    Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2025
  • Guided by Devine’s musical predilections, with a few concessions to more populist tastes, the bins include blues, jazz, country, sound tracks, punk rock, and New Orleans/zydeco.
    Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Granted, that includes comedic stints by position players Miguel Rojas and Kiké Hernández, but that only proves how empty the cupboard can get.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
  • According to the outlet, dozens of people managed to exit the shop, while four hid in a cupboard.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • So City essentially had three stacks of two — Bernardo and Kovacic at the bottom with Grealish and Lewis in front of them, forming a square or box.
    Sam Lee, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • In the far corner was her kitchen, full of cardboard boxes: tea leaves, bottles, labels, sugar.
    Oliver Whang, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Decades ago architects put bedroom closets on the other side of bathrooms.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2025
  • Fireplace tools are a little easier to accommodate, easily fitting into an entry closet, mudroom cabinet, or garage bin until they’re needed again.
    Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • The front end of the car was submerged and the trunk was open.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025
  • Lymphatic drainage massage can be performed on different areas of the body, including arms, legs and trunk, Knauss says.
    Korin Miller, Flow Space, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Trump's emphasis on personal loyalty, his lack of interest in dissenting opinions, and his tendency to treat cabinet meetings as platforms for pronouncements rather than collaborative discussions, mirror this imperial model of centralized, unitary authority.
    Frank Lavin, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
  • Heiss’s bed would be a platform floating in a room, with no clutter around it; the only other objects would be a curved lamp and a cabinet to hold Heiss’s linen shirts and trousers.
    Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
Noun
  • Possessed’s vocalist, Jeff Becerra, was paralyzed from the chest down after being shot in an armed robbery in 1989.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025
  • Eustace has pushed hard down on Derby’s chest since the middle of March and found a pulse.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 3 May 2025

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“Locker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locker. Accessed 15 May. 2025.

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