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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There is gossip, lots of locker-room talk and constant jockeying to undermine other teams.
  — Karla Miller, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Pay disparities within a team could create locker-room friction.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2023
• Then a locker-room conversation between doctors led to the diagnosis.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Instead, the show trudged through locker-room rivalries, boardroom subplots, and the business machinations of the owner, Jerry Buss, before finally staging a tip-off halfway through, for Magic’s first Lakers game.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2023
• Vincent is also regarded as a tremendous locker-room presence and was incredibly well-liked in Miami.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• Two seasons after the NFL reopened teams’ locker rooms to reporters following the coronavirus pandemic, player leaders would like to modify the locker-room access given to media members for privacy reasons.
  — Mark Maske, Washington Post, 26 July 2024

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locker room

2 of 2 noun

• The leadership in the locker room is doing its part to fix the mindset.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 17 Oct. 2022
• After the game went final, he was seen walking off the field and toward the locker room.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• In the video, Evans is shown walking toward the locker room through the tunnel.
  — Irie Harris, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2022
• Garland left the game and didn’t return, staying in the locker room for initial tests.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
• Players in the locker room are questioning whether the front office is doing what is best for the team to win games.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 24 Nov. 2024
• Brown said in the locker room as mini-celebrations broke out in every corner.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• Bridgewater headed to the blue injury tent to be examined and then walked with doctors and trainers into the locker room.
  — Dennis Waszak Jr., ajc, 9 Oct. 2022
• Getting Hopkins back in the locker room was perhaps nearly as important as his return to the football field.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• Franklin also made a dumb decision by confronting a taunting fan on his way to the locker room instead of ignoring the noise, as players are taught to do.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2024
• Adams apologized for his role in the incident, citing his frustrations, after the game to reporters in the locker room and on social media.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2022
• McDaniel had said that Tagovailoa had been evaluated in the locker room and passed all tests, and was simply suffering from a back injury.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022
• After being examined in the injury tent and going back to the locker room, Dobbins stood on the sideline during the second half without visible braces or supports.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
• 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
• That’s going to be a hard sell in the Ravens’ locker room.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2023
• That’s a credit to the culture in that room and in the locker room.
  — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Reeve spent time with Griner in the locker room after the game.
  — Doug Feinberg, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The move to release Jones and start third-stringer Tommy DeVito didn’t seem to sit well in the locker room.
  — C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
• To be clear, Nabers wasn’t the only person in the Giants locker room delivering scathing remarks about the team’s poor performance Sunday.
  — Charlotte Carroll, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024