schoolbag

[skool-bag]

noun

1. a bag used for carrying books, school supplies, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolbag¹

First recorded in 1890–95; school ¹ + bag

Example Sentences

Mr Hughes also described drawings, which were shown to the jury, that were found the in the girl’s schoolbag and bedroom.

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Each Friday afternoon, they put enough food in children's schoolbags to keep them going through the weekend.

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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.

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Stationery, as well as a school blazer, two schoolbags and two pairs of shoes set her back another £313.

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She beams as we talk about the princess-covered schoolbag stuffed with books next to her in the chair.

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