shopping bag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shopping bag
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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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
Roman was wrapped in a towel, inside a Sainsbury's shopping bag.
From BBC • May 15, 2025
Some have accused Mr Thaksin of pushing for Mr Srettha's cabinet appointment of a lawyer who was convicted in 2008 of trying to bribe a supreme court judge with a shopping bag full of cash.
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2024
“I saw this dress,” Madeline would say, handing Mia a tissue-lined shopping bag with a flowered maternity dress inside it.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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