schoolbag
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Origin of schoolbag
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Andreja was wearing her navy school uniform and was carrying a grey schoolbag when she was last spotted.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2023
“It is what it is,” she says, now 7 months pregnant and soon to put a baby on her back instead of a schoolbag.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2020
She swung her schoolbag as if she were about to hit me on the head with it, but changed her mind and ran off toward her entrance.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2013
I was defined by the band names on my schoolbag.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2013
On the back of each boy and girl was slung a schoolbag; and each frail, milky-white arm had a wristwatch on it.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Stationery, as well as a school blazer, two schoolbags and two pairs of shoes set her back another £313.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2023
Over the next 25 years he worked for a succession of overseas manufacturers before building his own multi-million dollar business making everything from schoolbags to toothbrushes.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2022
Her older children, slender under their schoolbags, climb onto their father’s motorbike and disappear into Juba’s streets to attend school — where the fees for attendance have risen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
Her elder children, slender under their schoolbags, climb onto their father’s motorbike and disappear into the Juba streets to attend school — where the fees for attendance have risen.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
We walked instead, so that people would see us carrying our perfect new schoolbags and our dazzling new lunch boxes.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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