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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Listen to this article Jamal Murray issued a challenge to his locker-room neighbor.
    — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 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 | Mheim@al.com, al, 9 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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 | Minabinett@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • Hafley sensed in the locker room that his players were down.
    — Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Kriisa was helped off the floor and into the locker room.
    — Bruce Pascoe, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • As Harvey was speaking to reporters in the locker room, Barron grabbed his phone and jumped into the scrum.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 10 May 2025
  • Porzingis warmed up after halftime but spent the entire second half in the locker room as Boston blew a 20-point lead in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 7 May 2025

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