as in locker
a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things
a chest containing almost every tool that the home do-it-yourselfer is likely to need
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Recent Examples of chest
When the victim opened the door, the suspect opened fire, hitting Bradley in the head, chest and back.
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Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026
Shloime Rand, 34, was stabbed in the chest outside a synagogue, puncturing his lung, and Norman Shine, 76, who was wearing a traditional Jewish skullcap, was stabbed in the neck at a bus stop.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Cutting off a guy’s finger and stitching a tiny bomb into someone’s chest is essentially the same as remembering how to put together a gun or outrunning a horde of bad guys.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
That tight chest, racing pulse and flicker of dread before your feet even touch the floor?
—Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
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Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026
Shloime Rand, 34, was stabbed in the chest outside a synagogue, puncturing his lung, and Norman Shine, 76, who was wearing a traditional Jewish skullcap, was stabbed in the neck at a bus stop.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Cutting off a guy’s finger and stitching a tiny bomb into someone’s chest is essentially the same as remembering how to put together a gun or outrunning a horde of bad guys.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
That tight chest, racing pulse and flicker of dread before your feet even touch the floor?
—Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for chest
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chest
Noun
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The roughly thirty-pound latex belly that Harbour wore to give Floyd extra heft is on full display in the show’s final episode, when Floyd and Clark strip down to their boxer briefs and dance by the pool lockers in a kind of tête-à-tête disco.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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Josh Hart is dejected at his locker.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The large bin is 12 inches by 7 inches by 5 inches, and it’s topped with a smaller bamboo bin.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Torres-García’s body was found in a plastic bin in October.—
Laura Tillman,
Hartford Courant,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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People drove up and opened trunks to reveal boxes and shopping bags full of ancient yellowed papers.—
Mary Norris,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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Wacha felt his chain break after the A’s Carlos Cortes had stepped into the batter’s box.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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People drove up and opened trunks to reveal boxes and shopping bags full of ancient yellowed papers.—
Mary Norris,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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Hernandez’s badly decomposed body was found in the trunk of Burke’s Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard in September.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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“Chest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chest. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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