shopping bag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shopping bag
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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He is wearing dark clothes, gloves and has the bottom half of his face covered and is carrying a green shopping bag.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
He was wearing an L.A. ballcap and carrying a shopping bag containing hundreds of whistles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
She is believed to have been less than an hour old when she was discovered in a shopping bag on a bleak pathway near a busy east London road on January 18, 2024.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
Kitchen utensils had been placed in the bin, and new ones from the shopping bag had been laid out.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
Joe flashed her a sheepish smile as he gathered a pair of rubber gloves, a plastic bowl, and the half-empty container of hair dye into a shopping bag.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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