Thesaurus results for LOCKERS

lockers

noun

plural of locker

as in bins

a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things the enlisted man usually stored his uniform in his locker at the foot of his bed

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as in cupboards

a storage case typically having doors and shelves a down-at-the heels health club where most of the lockers look to be unusable

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Recent Examples of lockers The malicious system component silently installs apps that look like weather tools, app lockers and other everyday utilities. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026 The flatbed also include's side storage lockers and a long rear drawer for extra cargo space. — New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026 So these are vertical shorts shot through characters’ lockers. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 The room falls silent as the players, one by one, take a seat at their lockers, facing a big-screen TV on the wall. — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026 Their lockers in the home clubhouse are just steps away from each other. — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026 Inside the 6,000-square-foot room, players have access to more than 100 lockers, a full-scale lounge area with comfortable seating and an adjacent barber’s room for players to get a haircut. — Sam Jane, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2026 To avoid bear encounters, Fish and Wildlife recommends removing unsecured food from cars and tents, using bear-resistant food canisters or bear lockers, and regularly disposing trash. — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026 After any communication, workers store their devices in lockers on the kiosk where they can be charged or temporarily put out of service, and flagged to a manager to check on it. — David Moin, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Most of the candy is in spotless Plexiglas bins, hundreds of them, and throughout the shop are fresh confections such as ice cream, sodas, a chocolate fountain.

— Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2026
That’s because the bins open upward and away from the aisle rather than downward toward it, eliminating the groove where the handrail would typically be.

— Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of bins

Noun

Likewise, Cosori recommends keeping its air fryer away from cupboards and steam-sensitive surfaces, with about 5 inches of clearance behind and above it.

— Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Her fiction is cluttered with bric-a-brac, bits and bobs, stuffed into boxes and drawers and cupboards—remnants of someone’s past.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of cupboards

Noun

Bathrooms are finished with full-height stone and Robern medicine cabinets.

— Saleema Syed, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Over the years, volunteers have salvaged everything from nearly intact kitchens (though this is increasingly rare) to individual cabinets and fittings, adding them to the collection.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of cabinets

Noun

In the riverbed, towering bald cypress trees now stood at a lean, their branches swept back by a 30-foot surge of water and mud, their trunks still plastered with debris.

— Francesca D’Annunzio, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2026
The chips were made from trees killed in the 2020 Castle fire, an inferno that left thousands of acres of standing dead trunks.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of trunks

Noun

Next year will see more classic accessories used in less traditional ways with Whatnot predicting shoppers will reuse pieces that are in their own closets.

— Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026
It-items tend to combine an exciting spark of newness with an ability to fit seamlessly into people’s closets.

— Joan Kennedy, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of closets

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