suitcase
a usually rectangular piece of luggage especially for carrying clothes while traveling.
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How to use suitcase in a sentence
We sent gentlemen forth with wirelesses in suitcases and instructions to blow up certain bridges.
Forgotten spies who fought the Nazis in the Middle East | Jonathan Kirsch | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostThe Democrats are still going to have suitcases full of votes.
The Clandestine Efforts to Keep Georgia’s Old-School Conservatives in the Fold | Nick Fouriezos | January 1, 2021 | OzyA satellite the size of a small suitcase, ASTERIA was designed to demonstrate the technology needed for a tiny telescope to search for exoplanets by detecting the minuscule dip in a star’s light when an orbiting planet passes in front of it.
My satellite would fit in a small suitcase. | Katie McLean | December 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewWhat Giuliani and others claim happened is that observers were cleared from the room and that ballots hidden in suitcases were then brought out to be counted without oversight.
Giuliani boasts about finally providing evidence of fraud (which doesn’t appear to be evidence of fraud) | Philip Bump | December 4, 2020 | Washington PostThe sole is also flexible enough to bend in half, so the shoe packs we ll in a carry-on suitcase.
Her business started in a suitcase, where she kept her supplies.
One woman dying on his floor, another rotting in a suitcase: An alleged killer stuns the financial community in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong’s High-Flying British Psycho Killer Suspect | Nico Hines, Tom Sykes | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPolice said the woman in the suitcase had died on the previous day.
Hong Kong’s High-Flying British Psycho Killer Suspect | Nico Hines, Tom Sykes | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe suitcase of stunners that Amal revealed throughout the weekend proves that she has one amazing sense of style.
Screw George Clooney—Amal Alamuddin Is the Catch | Allison McNearney | September 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTExcuse me, I have to get the keffiyeh out of my dusty suitcase and pack a kilt.
Up to a Point: A Free Scotland Would Be a Hilarious Disaster | P. J. O’Rourke | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMarie was packing a suitcase and meditating upon the scorching letter she meant to write.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerLowell handed Miss Scovill's suitcase to the silent Wong, who had slipped out behind the women.
Mystery Ranch | Arthur ChapmanI suddenly tossed my suitcase into the barn, and began a tour of inspection over my thirty acres.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonIf you wish them to do so, they will get your complete outfit, so you need not bring anything with you but a suitcase.
In Africa | John T. McCutcheonSlipping naturally into the most conventional groove either of word or deed, Cornelia eyed the suitcase inquisitively.
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for suitcase
/ (ˈsuːtˌkeɪs, ˈsjuːt-) /
a portable rectangular travelling case, usually stiffened, for carrying clothing, etc
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Other Idioms and Phrases with suitcase
see live out (of a suitcase).
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