How to Use footlocker in a Sentence

footlocker

noun

• Some guy would come in with all his stuff in a bag and a footlocker.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2019
• For decades people would claim to have found them in some marine footlocker somewhere.
  — National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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