shopping bag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shopping bag
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Under a piece of wood by the stump was a yellow sack containing a white Spencer’s shopping bag.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Too often a place will just send up a cardboard shopping bag with the things you ordered in it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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
She did her own shopping, always carrying the same blue cloth shopping bag, and always walking on the sunny side of the street “to keep the bones warm.”
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
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