schoolbag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of schoolbag
Example Sentences
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The deputy premier later admitted that "one or several" copies of the leaflet were in his schoolbag in Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg in Lower Bavaria when he was a teenager in the late 1980s.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 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
Here, he seized his schoolbag, ignoring the amazed looks of several people who had already finished their dinner, threw himself back out of the portrait hole, and hurtled off along the seventh-floor corridor.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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