schoolbag
Americannoun
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schoolbags
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Origin of schoolbag
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Mr Hughes also described drawings, which were shown to the jury, that were found the in the girl’s schoolbag and bedroom.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2024
“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
Nor did Marie think anything of it when, on a few occasions, she discovered Pip’s packed lunch uneaten in her schoolbag.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2017
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 packed my schoolbag first, with my books and papers.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
In some videos, people hold up children's schoolbags and books to the camera.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
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
Feeling they had the upper hand and wanting to quit while they were ahead, Du Hai and Yang Fan picked up their schoolbags and swaggered off.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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