shopping bag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shopping bag
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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He was wearing an L.A. ballcap and carrying a shopping bag containing hundreds of whistles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
She is believed to have been less than an hour old when she was discovered in a shopping bag on a bleak pathway near a busy east London road on January 18, 2024.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
It is exactly one year since Baby Elsa was found alive in a shopping bag near the Greenway footpath in east London, just an hour old.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
He then picked up some crisps, and said he even held his shopping bag open to show he was not trying to hide anything.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2024
Her green rhinestone-studded glasses slipped down her fleshy nose as she grappled with a tall triangular package and a stuffed shopping bag.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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