grocery bag

noun

US
: a plastic or paper bag used for holding items bought at a store

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By the episode's end, however, he's set his sights on Morgan, having surreptitiously slipped a note into her grocery bag. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025 Hayes, 22, was arrested in connection with Vega’s death on Nov. 11, 2024, in Hamilton County, Tennessee, after his fingerprint was found on a bloody grocery bag that had been left in Vega's car, court documents said. Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2025 There, the space-time continuum tears open like an overloaded grocery bag, and the theory is unable to say what comes next. George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2025 That’s why Dillon Cheer, a recent Arvada West High School graduate and passionate Rockies fan, showed up at Coors Field wearing a grocery bag over his head as a personal protest. Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for grocery bag

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“Grocery bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grocery%20bag. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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