How to Use footlocker in a Sentence
footlocker
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Some guy would come in with all his stuff in a bag and a footlocker.
—Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2019
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For decades people would claim to have found them in some marine footlocker somewhere.
—National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2016
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G.I. Joe was a breakthrough: a boy’s doll, only in battle dress, with a footlocker full of accessories that kept young fans hungry for more.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 11 May 2017
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Officials said the inmates made the alcohol using bread, fruit and sugar from the prison’s kitchen and stored it in watertight footlockers under their beds.
—Grant Schulte, The Seattle Times, 25 May 2017
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Whitman rode the elevator to the twenty-seventh floor, dragged his footlocker up the stairs to the observation deck, and introduced the nation to the idea of mass murder in a public space.
—Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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Hollywood icons and pinup models had long worn two-piece suits, as was evident under the lids of thousands of GI footlockers still being shipped home from Europe.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 July 2018
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Walls are either the same smooth concrete of the exterior or painted gray; the metal display cases look almost as rusty as the footlockers on exhibit.
—Julie V. Iovine., WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018
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Whitman packed all this into a footlocker with enough food to last two weeks and rode the elevator up the University of Texas clock tower, which had an observation deck.
—Steve Russell, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2017
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There's a photo studio, conservation lab, various sized shelves and racks for flags, tents, hammocks, saddles and military footlockers and cold storage areas for film kept at 40 degrees.
—Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2018
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One questioner—a reporter played by Atwood herself, who also supplied a new introductory essay for the audiobook—asks the professor to elaborate on the circumstances of the footlocker’s discovery.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
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