shopping bag
noun
: a bag (as of strong paper) that has handles and is intended for carrying purchases
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In the clip, the newly platinum blonde actress held a shopping bag in one hand and a bright red pail in the other, walking down a beachy path.
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Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Picture a plastic shopping bag that some busy customer picks up in the checkout line of a store—say, the British supermarket Tesco.
—Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Before the handbag revolution, which happened in the ’90s and into the aughts, hip girls used to carry their stuff in a paper bag or shopping bag.
—Kin Woo, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Other items: Rouses, Winn-Dixie and Target have bins at the front of stores to recycle plastic shopping bags.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
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Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Picture a plastic shopping bag that some busy customer picks up in the checkout line of a store—say, the British supermarket Tesco.
—Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Before the handbag revolution, which happened in the ’90s and into the aughts, hip girls used to carry their stuff in a paper bag or shopping bag.
—Kin Woo, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Other items: Rouses, Winn-Dixie and Target have bins at the front of stores to recycle plastic shopping bags.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for shopping bag
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“Shopping bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20bag. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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