How to Use locker-room in a Sentence
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Make some friends with players on the team, being in a locker-room setting again.
—Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
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Just by flashing his aw-shucks grin, Wiggins can ease locker-room tensions.
—Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jordan cries during the locker-room celebration and receives the first of six Finals MVP awards.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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The longtime locker-room leader took a massive pay cut last offseason to stay in Carolina.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2024
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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
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The locker-room champagne celebration is fine, but one problem: there’s no pool table.
—Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
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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
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There is gossip, lots of locker-room talk and constant jockeying to undermine other teams.
—Karla Miller, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
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The notice also paints a picture of a department with a locker-room atmosphere, where Kwong and some of his staff were fixated on the genitalia of patients.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024
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So smash goes the jar in a locker-room sequence that brings Sam’s ugliest fears to the fore, unleashing the ravenous supernatural force trapped inside.
—Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
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Another slightly under-the-radar player who could become a locker-room leader is 2023 All-Star Brent Rooker.
—Haley Smilow, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024
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Also, forward Blake Griffin, who provided a solid locker-room presence and good bench minutes for the Celtics last season, remains a free agent.
—Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
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The elation led to the usual on-court and locker-room celebrations, but exhaustion after grinding through four games in five days set in once the Stormers piled onto the bus for the three-plus hour trek back to Milwaukee.
—Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2023
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Ferraro is also second among all Sharks defensemen with nine points, but more importantly, is a vocal leader and a big locker-room presence on a team that began the year with a ton of new faces.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2024
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Listen to this article Jamal Murray issued a challenge to his locker-room neighbor.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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That roster spot could either go to locker-room favorite Zach Davidson or to a player at a different position that would impact special teams more than Davidson.
—Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
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Blake Griffin, an unrestricted free agent, was a solid veteran locker-room presence and had some useful moments down the stretch of the regular season.
—Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
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Trump has forever been a jock’s politician, what with his invocation of locker-room talk and his swaggering refusal to countenance defeat.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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Then, at halftime, locker-room cameras show an assistant coach ripping into both players for their bickering.
—Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 6 May 2023
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Pay disparities within a team could create locker-room friction.
—Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2023
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Then a locker-room conversation between doctors led to the diagnosis.
—Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
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And New Mexico State’s men’s basketball season was shut down in February because of a fatal shooting and allegations of locker-room hazing.
—Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2023
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And New Mexico State's men's basketball season was shut down in February because of a fatal shooting and allegations of locker-room hazing.
—Tim Reynolds, ajc, 4 Mar. 2023
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Will the team be amenable to uses of the field and the locker rooms?
—Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
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Evans limped off the field and went back to the locker room.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
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That’s going to be a hard sell in the Ravens’ locker room.
—Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2023
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That’s a credit to the culture in that room and in the locker room.
—Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2022
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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
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The last of the light had headed toward the locker room.
—Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2023
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Reeve spent time with Griner in the locker room after the game.
—Doug Feinberg, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2024
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Players had to walk up four flights of stairs to reach the cramped locker rooms.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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There’s no hanging out in the locker room or any of that.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
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Coming out of the locker room on fire, France opened up a 10-point lead on the US.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 11 Aug. 2024
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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
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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
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Of all the tired legs in that locker room, the kid who helped beat the Heat last June might need a breather more than most.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
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Hafley sensed in the locker room that his players were down.
—Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
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The churn rate in NFL locker rooms is so high that at least a third of the players will be new.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2025
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Patrick met with his team and staff Wednesday morning in the locker room of the Nest, the school’s cozy gym.
—Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
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Both went to the locker room for further tests and were back on the sideline in the third quarter.
—Fox News, 15 Oct. 2023
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The air came out of the balloon when Surtain headed to the locker room.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2024
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Alcaraz and Zverev ducked for cover in the locker room.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2024
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Any issues were left in the locker room, and L.S.U. started to mesh on the court as the season went on.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
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In the first half, Cardinals tight end Zach Ertz went to the locker room on a cart.
—Emily Horos, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2022
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On the mood in the locker room: The standard here, man, is excellence.
—Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 6 Oct. 2024
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The Avs locker room is home to two of the top five hockey players on the planet.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025
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Phillips was spotted walking out of the locker room with his right arm in a sling.
—Dan Labbe, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2023
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The miscreants skated to the locker rooms, their games over.
—Victor Mather, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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More than his work with quarterbacks, O’Connell has delivered a locker room that is filled with confidence and joy.
—Steve Silverman, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
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Coming so close to lifting the coveted Ron Newman Cup, only to lose both games by a single goal, is a memory that lingers in the Comets’ locker room.
—Nathan Dunn, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2025
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