Example Sentences

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Critics reached under their chairs, found the duffel-bags full of ready-to-wear words and opinions that they had tucked there surreptitiously at the first Toscanini concert, drew them out.

From Time Magazine Archive

A great variety of desirable camp packs, including duffel-bags, pack-straps, harness, and tump-lines, may be purchased at the camp-outfitter's; investigate before deciding upon home-made camp packs.

From On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls by Beard, Lina

She kept it up until the scouts knew that every bottle and box in their duffel-bags must be powdered into other necessities.

From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

The sloop was made for business, and the cabin harmonized exactly with the sloop—painted pine, wooden bunks without mattresses, camp-blankets, duffel-bags slung up because all the floor place had been requisitioned for sleeping purposes.

From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward

"Ben, tell 'em to drop those duffel-bags and rush that gang of steers out of my yard."

From The Ramrodders A Novel by Day, Holman